Essential Supply Products Ltd (ESP)

Project Overview

The 19 acre site required a new, high quality and sustainable development which was modern but sympathetic to its surroundings and allowed the client to consolidate all operations and function more efficiently. It also permitted for expanded manufacturing capability, office space and an increased storage and distribution area.

Using the aspiration of ESP and a heavily design-led approach, the development was driven by the outcome of a Landscape Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) and proposals developed in direct response to the constraints and opportunities of the application site and its location close to the designated Malvern Hills AONB.

Detailed analysis of the application site guided the siting of the buildings and layout, massing, orientation and materiality, as well as the arrangement of external spaces including car parking, flood alleviation and access roads.  The design worked around veteran oak trees which each had tree preservation orders (TPO’s) in place and are fundamental assets of the site.

Designed to emulate the Malvern Hills, the building itself sensitively considers its landscape while boasting a development with strong green credentials to support the client’s clear vision of sustainable future expansion and adding value to the local area.

• ONE’s experience and can-do attitude was paramount in achieving our vision. They involved us all the way and helped us make decisions whilst always understanding the importance of a sympathetic design to suit the location.

  Isla Buchanan, Director of Operations / ESP