Architects mark 40 years with job creation
A 40 YEAR-OLD architecture business, Watson Batty Architects, is celebrating the milestone birthday with a recruitment drive.
The business is planning to employ a further 6-8 people, as well as double its £4m turnover.
The Leeds and Loughborough architects are currently on track to achieve that with a continued average growth of 20% in recent years.
Peter White, managing director at Watson Batty Architects said, “We are thrilled to celebrate 40 years in practice.
“With our roots firmly established in the North we are in a fantastic position to leverage the Northern Powerhouse movement and we are in fact engaging with some very significant urban planning projects.
The 50-strong business has established long-term clients including Royal Mail and Wm Morrisons Supermarkets for which the firm has delivered 1 million sq ft of retail space across 19 stores.
Over its 40 years it has also designed 4,000 new homes and supported 20,000 new school places in the UK.
It is currently working on a dining room and student’s union extension at York St John University, delivery offices for Royal Mail at Nine Elms and Portsmouth, leisure centres for local authorities at Newark and Washington and has recently been successful in supporting Wates Living Space Homes on Calderdale Council’s North Halifax Transformation Project.
