Redruth Revival Feasibility Study

We wish to commission a Feasibility Study which will examine a number of aspects of the site and consider some possible design options to inform the next stage of project development. We seek proposals from a team to undertake this work. The project is at the beginning of the RIBA Stages of Work at present.

We suggest that as a minimum the Study should examine:

Building structures - to establish the soundness of the roofs, walls and floors and the presence of any subsidence (recent or historic)

Services - to clarify what we know about the main utilities and services, including the condition and routes of drainage systems, some of which may be very old

Design and development constraints - listed building status, planning context, conservation and historic environment issues, freehold and leasehold legal documentation, party wall issues

Measured survey - perhaps not of all internal structures, but at least an external measured survey and floor levels.

Following the completion of these initial studies which we expect to take perhaps two or three months from appointment, we also want the successful team to create some design options and approximate costings which could then inform the next stage of project development and fund-raising. These should include the building currently in separate ownership which sits between and over parts of our freehold site.

We expect that the outputs of the project will be a series of technical reports covering the surveys and reviews listed above together with a number of approximately costed design options that we can use in order to undertake the next stage of our scheme which will involve further fundraising and the procurement of a design team to take the project up to full planning permission.

We hope that the Feasibility Study will be part-funded by the Architectural Heritage Fund and so bidders should familiarise themselves with the requirements set out in the AHF's Guidance Notes and Report Template for the Project Viability Grant scheme. One funding source for future stages of the project may be the Heritage Lottery's Heritage Enterprise programme.

In tandem with this technical and design work, Redruth Revival will continue to work with a range of partners, stakeholders and users in Redruth to inform and develop the next stage of our business planning process. This will include financial modelling for the revenue operations of a completed scheme and an assessment of the potential impacts (financial, environmental, social) of the project over the longer term. We would want the successful team to play a role in this consultation process, for example by means of presentations of design options to stakeholders, and this should be allowed for in your budget.