The Homes & Communities Agency has appointed Capita Symonds to provide heritage planning and advisory services on the Connaught Barracks redevelopment project in Dover, Kent.
The Barracks site contains a large Victorian land fort known as Fort Burgoyne. The redevelopment comprises the building of 500 homes and the potential conversion of the historic Fort for a variety of new community, small scale commercial, education, training and heritage uses.
Originally known as Castle Hill Fort, Fort Burgoyne, was built in the 1860s to guard the high ground northeast of Dover. Built to a polygonal system with detached eastern and western redoubts, it has provided service through both World Wars. Its most recent use has been as a storage facility for the wider MOD Connaught Barracks site.
Located adjacent to Dover Castle in an area of outstanding natural beauty, the site covers a total area of 54.5 hectares, of which 12.5 hectares have been earmarked for development.
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