Pick Everard delivers Olympic legacy vision

Pick Everard delivers Olympic legacy vision
Work on a £6.6million Olympic legacy project creating a haven for mountain biking, cycling and for families has been completed by independent management, design and construction consultancy Pick Everard.

Hadleigh Park in Essex hosted the exhilarating London 2012 Olympic mountain bike events.  Pick Everard has been working on behalf of its client Essex County Council to maximise the use of the site for current and future generations.

The spectacular mountain bike course has been retained but adapted for use by members of the public, creating a legacy for mountain biking.  But the development has continued far beyond this breathing new life into Hadleigh Farm and Country Park with an 18km network of walking and cycling paths and trails, connected to the mountain bike course.

The network is at the heart of the project improving access across the 500 hectare Hadleigh Country Park and Hadleigh Farm for cycling, mountain biking, walking, running and for horse riders.  

The attraction also includes a visitors' centre, a children's play area, re-developed business units, offices for rangers, a bike hire shop and additional facilities for The Salvation Army to expand its valuable work with vulnerable local people.

The Hadleigh Legacy Project is situated on Hadleigh Park, serving communities and visitors from all over the UK.

Pick Everard were appointed as project and construction managers and quantity surveyors for the development.

Gary Sullivan OBE, chairman of Active Essex County Council, said: "We were incredibly proud to host the Olympic mountain biking events and at the time we promised to deliver a legacy beyond this.

"With the site now open we are very proud of what has been achieved.  Hadleigh Park is a world-class sporting facility, which we hope will be visited by mountain bikers and families alike for many years to come."

Paul Darlow, regional director at Pick Everard, said: "This has been a fantastic scheme to deliver.  It has been a real privilege to be involved in an Olympic legacy project and be part of a vision to deliver outstanding facilities to the broader Essex community.

"We have worked closely with our client throughout the process to ensure the scheme meets their needs and is an attraction which local people will use and be truly proud of."

Alastair Hamilton, partner at Pick Everard, said: "We are a multi-professional practice and regularly work across a range of disciplines including project management, quantity surveying and more.  

"This is an exciting scheme, regenerating the local area and ensuring this is a site which has a long-lasting legacy."  

Pick Everard has delivered the scheme through the SmarteEast framework and provided quantity surveying on both the network of trails and design of the visitor centre.

Pick Everard provided construction project management on the network of trails in conjunction with Pearl Contractors and project management on the design and build of the visitor centre in conjunction with Morgan Sindall.


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