As a natural extension of our work in residential communities, PTEa has a growing portfolio of schools projects, including the completion of four new primary schools and the remodelling of several primary and secondary schools. Our work encompasses complex and confined urban sites and also spacious suburban locations.

PTEa’s experience in urban regeneration and in property development enables us to realise the full potential of schools as community hubs rather than standalone institutions. We are specialists in enabling use by the wider community (without compromising the safe and effective operation of the school) and in the co-location of schools within mixed-use developments. We have helped to pioneer the development of homes above schools, which can bring wide regenerative benefits and also raise cross-subsidy for school developments: in the most ambitious cases entire new school buildings can be funded in this way, replacing or minimising reliance on scarce grant.

We work in close collaboration with teachers, governors and Heads, and also with the children and students, who come into our offices to learn about the design process and teach us about what they need to make a better school.