Section 2 Design Brief
Group E:
12.0 BDDEA
10.3 Toilet and Tea Room
10.5 Staff Car Parking *
Note: Visitors usually by appointment with a small number of casual visitors.
Group F:
11.1 Vehicle Maintenance and Garage 11.2 Drivers Accommodation
10.2 Stores
10.3 Toilet and Tea Room
10.5 Staff Car Parking
Note: Staff use only
Group G:
11.3 Gatehouse
Group H:
11.4 Staff Housing
Group I:
10.4 Club
*
* Staff cars should be sited in either separate or a combined car park.
19. A summary of M & E requirements is given in Annex J. Where possible the design should encourage good natural cross ventilation. Air conditioning systems where proposed must be easily maintainable, reliable and quiet in operation.
Security
20. Security measures start at the security perimeter which should have a security fence 3 metres high including a solid robust wall at least 600mm high. Other fences can be normal height and design. The site should be zoned so that the two staff houses and the public car park are outside the secure perimeter.
21. The main Chancery Offices (Group A) should not be sited within 30 metres of the site perimeter. However, it is accepted that where it is desirable to have direct public access to certain group offices, these can be adjacent to the secure perimeter but not less than 10m from any public road.
22. Principal access to the site and security perimeter from Upper Hill Road should be controlled by a gatehouse which should have clear views of the site, the drive and port cochere to the main Chancery Offices, and main parking areas for the staff and public.
Access control should include a vehicle/inspection lock and a separate search area for visitors and staff entering on foot.
A secondary entrance and control point at Lower Hill Road would have a 'vehicle lock' including mechanised
gates but would normally be unmanned.
23. All windows to the office buildings will be glazed in 11.5mm anti-bandit glass. Enclosures to the guardhouse, internal reception desks and air-locks will be constructed of bullet resistant construction to British Standards BS 5051 category G1.