Northumberland work drives growth for Architects-Group

Headquartered at AirView Park, Woolsington, the design practice has won a raft of commissions in the county as it targets turnover of £2.5m by 2025.

Architects-Group has secured six-figures worth of new commissions, driving a 50% increase in projects in Northumberland alone in the first half of the year, the firm said.

Notable work secured by the firm includes masterplanning for Dysart Developments’ 358-acre, 2,000-home Middle Farm development, a £425m scheme to the east of the Northumbria Emergency Care hospital.

Other commissions include the redevelopment of former police stations in Newcastle, Ponteland and Morpeth, these sites being reworked as offices, a pub-restaurant and an £8m executive apartment scheme respectively.

In a further Northumberland project, interior design work has progressed as part of plans that will see Victorian offices formerly occupied by law firm Brumell & Sample on Morpeth High Street converted into five two-bedroomed holiday let apartments, in a £1.5m restoration project.

The company has also been commissioned to design new holiday lets and apartments in Morpeth, Hexham and Seahouses, a new-build residential and workers dwelling development on a private country estate near Ellingham, and a 60-strong new housing development in the Borders.

This regional work has secured workforce numbers, with the firm currently employing 22 specialists providing architecture, interior, landscape and graphic design services from Woolsington, Cardiff, Chester and London. A  Saudi Arabia team has also now been established.

MD Tony Harmieson is also looking for growth in the Middle East. Credit: via EdgyPR

Managing director Tony Harmieson said: “Despite the challenges the construction and property industries have faced, we are busier than ever, and our design team’s reach and capabilities are going from strength-to-strength. Being from Northumberland myself, I’m delighted to see how busy we are in and around this region.

“We will continue to target sustainable growth, developing some fantastic core client relationships further, as we look towards focusing on a quality rather than quantity project approach into 2025. This will help sustain our incredible in-house team of designers and support our planned expansion into Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East in general in the coming 18 months.”