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HL are delighted to be shortlisted once more for the RIBA North East Awards, for the Armstrong Building with the combined entry with the School of Architecture Newcastle University Design Office.

TOMORROW IS THE BIG DAY HERE AT HL! We still have lots to do before we walk out of the door at Old Elvet tomorrow (for the final time!) so please bear with us. Normal service will resume from [...]

Its nearly time to say goodbye to our office at Old Elvet, Durham! Our new Studios at Liddon House, Belmont Business Park are nearly ready for us! Boxes are being packed and everyone is really [...]

  Howarth Litchfield are delighted to have been Lead Consultant, Architects, Interior Designers and Principal Designers in the delivery of the National Centre for Healthcare Photonics for [...]

After nearly 40 years at our office in Old Elvet, Durham, we are moving!!! The HL team is eagerly awaiting and preparing to move to our new office space in Belmont Business Park.  We will upload [...]

  An update on the Planning Application for the Multi-Use Sports Facility at Durham School (article extracted from the Northern Echo, 8th January 2019:  

Wishing you all a very happy and prosperous New Year from Howarth Litchfield. Here at HL, we remain really positive about the prospects of 2019. We have lots of exciting projects to work on, [...]

A huge well done to all the staff here at HL who kindly donated nearly 400 items of non perishable items of food and other essentials to Elvet Methodist Church in Durham. These gifts will be [...]

Good luck to Ultimate (Commercial Interiors) at tonight’s Mixology North Awards ceremony – created for the dynamic and innovative interior design community. Ultimate (Commercial Interiors) [...]

  Here at Howarth Litchfield, we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!  

150 years at the Durham Miners Association at Redhills introducing their plans to renovate and extend the beautiful building in the centre of Durham. HL are delighted to be involved!  

As part of our continued expansion here at HL, we are delighted to announce the recent appointment of Keith Handy, joining us as a Director of the company.  Keith, (shown below on the right) [...]

RIBA student mentoring with Neil Turner at HL at the ‘Meet your Mentor’ event on 13th November 2018 – always good to assist the next generation of architects!  

Tower crane installed on site at the new Library development for the Royal Grammar School in Newcastle.    

Designing a veterinary practice – an article by Neil Turner for the September Edition of the ‘In Practice’ magazine.    

HL are delighted to congratulate Andrew Wilson on passing his APC to become a Chartered Building Surveyor.

We had such a fantastic time at the Clerkenwell Design Week 2018. In the creative heart of London, we visited many creative showrooms, exhibitions and seminars. We left feeling inspired!  

Grade II* listed Neville Hall receives full planning and listed building consent on behalf of the Common Room of the Great North. Great team effort!      

The Boiler House in Newcastle-upon Tyne has been shortlisted for the RIBA North East Awards 2018. We look forward to the event in York.      

The Boiler House was the category winner & Armstrong Building achieved a Highly Commended Award in the Conservation category at the RICS North East Awards 2018. We are delighted to have been [...]

In the May 2018 addition of Homebuilding & Renovating, Neil Turner explores the building element of skirting boards.  

Makeover of historic Newcastle building moves closer as plans are submitted. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/business/business-news/makeover-historic-newcastle-building-moves-14488499   [...]

Review of the external windows, stonework and roof at Neville Hall, Newcastle as we prepare to undertake the next phase of works for the development. The Project is currently in the planning [...]

Our Director Neil Turner appears in the latest episode of Holding Back the Years on BBC (Series 2, Episode 6). Watch now on BBC iPlayer – [...]

  Superb flyover of our recently completed National Formulations Centre, showing progress of CPI’s National Formulation Centre for Healthcare. Video footage courtesy of CPI

What are  the latest trends in Interior design? How can these be used within Interiors? Trend prediction can be influenced by many factors – Fashion, Culture, Products, Colour, texture and Form. [...]

Durham-based architecture practice Howarth Litchfield has won a deal to develop the next stage of an £8.4m digital office park in Lancashire. Appointed by Chorley Council, the North East firm [...]

We have received a number of nominations in the last few weeks from the RICS and the RIBA for projects. We are very pleased to have 5 nominations for the Acklam Hall and Cundalls Office project , [...]

External building remedial works nearing completion and the area in front of Neville House cleared to reveal this stylish building New build Sheraton House taking shape as scaffold is dropped [...]

Great new houses moving to completion at Riding Mill

Billingham-headquartered industrial services firm Able UK has signed a 9-year contract with premium car-maker BMW Group, as it expands its vehicle storage and distribution operations on the [...]

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is pleased to announce that Surgo Construction Ltd have been awarded the contract to build CPI’s National Formulation Centre. The building will be based at [...]

We have been busy through the year of 2016 and our event was held to thank all our clients ( and consultant friends ) for the work that has been completed . The practice illustrated the range of [...]

  HL’s BIM Manager, Marc Warren, joined Esh Construction at Durham CCC stadium, for a fine afternoon of cricket, food & drink and (of course) the latest update of Euro 2016 tournament! [...]

Our clients are always looking for help with developments and the Carbon trust has quietly produced some funds which could assist some of our clients. The £7m fund has been made available to [...]

HL were delighted to support the Dreamflight Tiger ball at the Gosforth park on the 7th May at the Gosforth Park Hotel. A fantastic evening in which over £20,000 was raised .  We hope our prize [...]

HL are delighted to have been awarded a place on Stockton Councils consultancy partnership framework for architectural services. We look forward to a really successful partnership with the [...]

The design consortium appointment follows on the back of contract wins for rapidly expanding car dealer Vertu Motors, which appointed Howarth Litchfield to remodel its new head office on the Team [...]

The practice has gained planning permission for a fabulous new house on the site of an original 1960s property.   The new house creates a modern villa, set in mature grounds.  The client wishes [...]

Another busy month for the Studio as the Teams undertakes existing and new commission across a range of sectors. We have seen the completion of Acklam hall into a luxury new centre with [...]

A very busy start to the year for Howarth Litchfield . Where has January gone ? We are pleased to announce some great new commissions in particular the Armstrong Building renovation with Turner [...]

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Home Building & Renovating – February 2016

Article printed in The Journal Saturday 16 January 2016

We are delighted to report that we have successful secured a further planning permission for Cleveland College of Art and Design as we move forward with the redevelopment of their campus in [...]

Welcome to our new web site for Howarth Litchfield.  We have re branded and the new look represents the fresh and innovative Architectural and Interiors Design practice. The new site is easy to [...]

As we draw to the end of 2014, we would like to thank all our clients and visitors to the website for their support and patronage. It’s been another busy year for HLP with many exciting [...]

Another week has passed by at HLP and I had some thoughts about the blog should focus upon. Should it be the variety of work currently going on?  Well we definitely have variety, with a new build [...]

We were delighted for the student accommodation project in Durham to achieve Planning permission. A great deal of work was undertaken by the client team, designers and the planners to create a [...]

It’s been a busy week at the office across many projects for HLP. We continue to enjoy great recognition for the project, Treetops, which has been shortlisted for an AJ retrofit award, a [...]

What a tremendous week, following on from the RICs awards a week ago and the 2 awards. Can it get better, well the answer is yes! We were thrilled to receive a regional award and best small [...]

Well a great night at the awards following our 8 nominations. We picked two awards, one for Tunedin!@myplace as highly recommended in the Tourism and Leisure and Treetops, a special commendation [...]

We are completing the works at Bamburgh Golf club and took this image from the site as the paviers went down. The waves were rolling in, the blue sky above and the fresh air blowing across us [...]

We have had a good fortnight for award nominations and shortlistings with 8 award categories in the RICS and RIBA awards. I heard Gyles Brandreth on Room 101 say that he hated awards and award [...]

A recent article in the Sunday times noted that the economy has nearly got back to the heights of 2008 before the recession. By Easter it will have matched its previous level. So what is the [...]