Stockport Academy

Stockport Academy is a new modern academy type non-selective co-educational school within the English Academy programme, located in Cheadle Heath, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England.

A 869 pupil school catering for children between the ages of 11 and 16. The project required a stage construction and demolition of the existing Avondale High School. The school was to remain fully operational whilst the new academy was constructed on the existing and adjacent site.

The scheme had to be designed to suit the phases and sequencing of demolition and included the following:

• Site plot plan

• Surveys - Topographical, drainage and utilities

• Utility tie-ins

• Liaison with public utility companies and government agencies

• Access roads and parking lots

• Hardstand sports and recreation areas

• Underground drainage systems for surface water and santitary

• Surface water management

• Sustainable urban drainage systems

• Control of surface water discharge and attenuation system to a 1 in 100 storm event

• MUGA sport pitch design

• Hard and soft landscaping including porous pavements

Our consultancy was involved from the infancy of the academy education program and has been the appointed civil engineering consultants on four academy schools across England.