CASE STUDY It’s got to be green Project: Cedar Suite, The Grove hotel, Hertfordshire Client: Ralph Trustees Architect: James Blake at Purcell Designer: Martin Hulbert Design Structural Engineers: AECOM Main Contractor: Galliford Try Copper Contractor: CEL Ltd Copper: KME Tecu Patina It wasn’t always as placid at The Grove as it is now. The former country estate of the Earls of Clarendon near Abbot’s Langley in Hertfordshire, the 18th century mansion house was called in by Secretary of State John Prescott in 1997 in a landmark green belt test case, when new owners the Ralph Trustees were trying to convert it into a luxury hotel. They eventually won the two-year legal battle and architect Jeremy Blak

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