The Ratcliffe Groves Partnership (RGP) designed new store for Waitrose at Utoxeter opened this week. This modern-looking store is on the site of the former JCB works, which was moved out of town to a state of the art production facility.  The design makes the most of the site area by placing the store on stilts with [...]

Mayor Boris Johnson has been called on to “Spearhead” modular housing projects across the capital, but this time the North is ahead of the game. Prime Structures assisted by The Ratcliffe Groves Partnership (RGP) have been designing and delivering steel framed modular dwellings for a number of years. The latest development of 2 and 3 bedroom properties [...]

After celebrating our 50th anniversary last year, we’re pleased to be celebrating our 10,000th project this week. We achieved this significant business milestone by securing an extension to Manchester’s YMCA. Terry Ratcliffe, Chairman said ‘I’m elated not only at celebrating 50 years and 10,000 projects, but to be involved in developing the YMCA in Manchester, a charity [...]

Lewis Hazelwood-­Horner has been announced as winner of the 2016 Columbia Threadneedle Prize, Europe’s leading open competition for figurative and representational art. Lewis receives a cash prize of £20,000 and a solo exhibition for a wider body of his work at Mall Galleries later this year. His work, Salt in Tea, was painted following a [...]

For those of you who have met Yue Zheng, you'll know she's a determined and ambitious young architect. Today, she is starting a new career in Shanghai and planning for her upcoming wedding. RGP would like to publicly thank Yue Zheng for all her hard work, and it gives us great pride to know that she'll be [...]

RGP London, celebrated Chirstmas 2015 at the Cock and Bottle and following RGP Bury’s Luncheon, a Christmas Jumper competition was won by Smita and Paul. Merry Christmas to all!

RGP have been proud to be associated with the YMCA Movement over many years, involved in delivering a number of development projects, and also particularly involved in a voluntary role locally, nationally, and internationally. We have over many years, supported YMCA work, and for Christmas 2015 we will be making a donation to Blackburn YMCA [...]

Nick Ioannou, our IT Manager, recently presented about RGP’s 12 years of experience using cloud systems at Whitehall Media’s Enterprise Cloud Computing & Virtualization event His talk entitled ‘Can I Trust Cloud Security?’ highlighted the importance of knowing what you are getting into, the costs going in, staying there and getting out. For more information about ECCV click [...]

Porters Restaurant on Berkhamsted high street opened earlier this month, as part of the London Metric development, designed by RGP. The project is located on the site of a former Post Office sorting centre and incorporates the new Porter restaurant as well as M&S, Simply Food and Costa Coffee.