Project Team

Gilltown has selected an expert team of consultants to help them work with the council and community to deliver the best possible development.

Architects: Intersect

Structural Engineer: Westlakes

Westlakes Consulting is a division of Westlakes Engineering Ltd, an independent civil and structural engineering consultancy providing specialist design services to clients in the property, infrastructure, energy and industry sectors from its offices in Manchester, Preston and Whitehaven. The practice is lead by Andy Hooper (MICE) and Chris Pratt (FIStructE) who first met designing commercial buildings in the Structures Division of Allott & Lomax in the late 1980’s.

Founded in 2004, the company has grown quickly and established a reputation for providing a high quality, professional service to its Clients.

Our Manchester team has worked in the higher education sector for many years and has held Framework Agreements at the Universities of Manchester, Bolton and Warwick. Most recently we have also been working at Lancaster University.

We have particular experience of the design of student accommodation.

Planning Consultant: Fairhurst

Fairhurst is one of the largest privately owned Partnerships of Consulting Engineers in the UK.

The Firm has experienced significant growth over recent years, expanding and building upon its core business of Civil and Structural engineering to offer a wide range of associated multi-disciplinary services. These additional services allow us to manage and drive projects of all sizes and complexities through from inception to completion.

Our Planning and Development Service offers a full range of services including professional planning, landscape and design. Our comprehensive knowledge of related disciplines, allows us to provide real added value utilising the Firm wide expertise in relation to matters such as flooding, contaminated land, infrastructure and servicing. Each individual Client is highly respected and a bespoke, pro-active and responsive team is assembled to consider each project’s unique demands, specifics and objectives.

The practice was founded by Andrew Scott, Chris Fairley and Julie Booth who had worked

together for the previous twelve years. We consistently deliver results for our clients and the

directors’ combined abilities enable them to deliver projects of varying size from the humble house extension through to multi-million pound mixed use developments.

Intersect Architects Limited was established to provide a service to clients that they can rely on. The Directors all take an active project role, and the combination of their personal abilities and experience ensures that the client’s aims and objectives are delivered with uncomplicated ease and minimum effort.