Artist Impression of New Headquarters in Sevenoaks Designed by Olaf Plori
Juicyfruithippo.co.uk, a business consultancy firm is seeking to acquire and gain speculative planning permission to build its new global headquarters on the sites of The Railway & Bicycle and The Farmers Pubs which are currently lying derelict after the controversial demolition of both Pubs.
The designs of the building are still only in draft form but initial drawings show a building that bridges London Road connecting two four storey glass triangular shards pointing in opposite directions. The CEO of juicyfruithippo.com is Stuart Blakemore of Ide Hill. “Juicyfruithippo.co.uk is a growing business consultancy who specialise in Risk reintroduction into major corporate businesses”.
Proposed Site Plan in Yellow
He adds “For us the credit crunch is proving a great opportunity as we have been warning for years about the issue of businesses not understanding the risks they run. As a local man I have seen this site laid waste for some time now which I think is a crying shame, and I want to bring something to that area. As well as being our new corporate head office we intend to have business units on the ground floor. At least one of these will be reserved for traditional style Pub to replace the two that were lost. “The Farmers Old Bike” will offer the local community a social focus and be a drinking hole for commuters. We have had interest from a number of licensees who are keen to help us with the site”
One suggestion from an interested partner is to extend the Pub facilities into the basement to allow for a Table Dancing facility. Blakemore continued “We know these are very popular in the city of London and we like the idea of bringing this kind of entertainment choice to the same city types who frequent them, but allow them to be closer to home and their families. A lot of these guys are either currently out of work or having to work from home. They will be able to get to the facilities with existing excellent transport infrastructure and be able to spend the money that they used to spend in Stringfellows, here in the community, benefitting local people”
Other retail units have been provisionally booked by retailers such as Pizza Hut, Anne Summers, WH Smith, Kyuntische Fabrics and Halfords.
Under the South Tower it is planned to build at least a four level underground car park for Juicyfruithippo employees and some public parking for the station and the retail units.
The design is modern and striking. Stuart Blakemore has very clear ideas about what he wants “We have commissioned the leading Danish architect Olaf Plori to design us a striking structure that symbolises our business ethos of bridging together risk with opportunity, with its split site design and Glass Bridge across London Road we think he has truly succeeded with the brief”
Planning permissions will be submitted this week, suggests Stuart Blakemore. He would hope that the new building will be occupied by the 1st April 2010
About Juicyfruithippo.co.uk
Formed in 2007 Juicyfruithippo.co.uk is a business consultancy with a difference.
THE CURRENT GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS HIGHLIGHTS THE INABILITY OF MANY MODERN ENTERPRISES TO DEAL EFFECTIVELY WITH UNEXPECTED RISK. JUICYFRUITHIPPO HAS BEEN WARNING OF THIS FOR OVER THREE YEARS AND HAS HELPED CLIENTS TO PREPARE FOR THE UNEXPECTED.
Our customers have embraced risk reintroduction by allowing Juicyfuithippo to disrupt their day to day business to keep them sharp, focused, and innovative to new challenges.
Our secret is our highly successful Dali Surrealism Generator technology. Boasting ubiquitous backwards compatibility across all commercial platforms as well as plug ins to help keep the Comms room smelling fresh as a daisy. This technology is able to deliver planned and non scheduled disruption and surreal events into a smooth running enterprise in order to test the reactions of staff and the ability of the organisation to withstand the unexpected and even to learn how to benefit from it.
This technology is coupled with our army of Consultants who have years of experience and access to disruptive strategies dating back to the Greco-Roman period
Our methodology can deliver significant and measured increase in morale in your organisation within weeks.
About Stuart Blakemore CEO of Juicyfruithippo.co.uk
tuart has been a professional smart ass and wisecracking asset of many a global organisation. Juicy fruit hippo is the culmination of a vision provided to Stuart when he found himself locked in a chiller in St Ives with only Yoghurt and goats cheese to survive on.
A long time sufferer of comedy tourettes, Stuart is unable to help himself when presented with a good one liner. His presence at meetings is often welcome as he is able to make anyone wish it was lunchtime. His similarity to the Milky Bar Kid meant that he was constantly mistaken as a child, he was mistaken in his belief that Tortoises bounce, girls like frogs and that most cats float.
Stuart has a long and successful track record in sales. He once sold 150 metres of scalextrik to a man with a very long passage. Once known as "the flying mallet" due to his unsubtle closing techniques, he is now a qualified practitioner of Zen Sales which allows the connectedness of the universe to coalesce and provide meaningful sales prospects through chanting and the balancing of the chi of a long since dead panda called Poo Poo.
Stuart’s Hobbies include: Spaghetti, Inclining, Turning Wood (into sawdust mostly). Avoiding Heston Services, Making lego jam, Parawhistling sticking pins into anyone called Bob, masticating, refining crude oil, Standing next to buttresses and pretending to speak Finnish. He is currently seeking therapy for his tendency to throw Muller rice at Carol Vorderman. He also has a wooden leg, he found it in the back of a cab and if he knew whose it was he would give it back to them.
He has recently completed a course of antibiotics which have accidentally given him x ray vision, a feint aroma of steel wool emanating from his ears and west Cornish accent but only when reciting Kipling.
He is an amateur novelist with a predilection for walnut whips. He has a partner and two sons, a dead cat and an adopted fungal infection on his left foot. Stuart spends three months a year as a mollusc for tax reasons.