Promap Testimonial:
Gentoo is made up of a group
of companies that include divisions operating in care and support services;
construction; design, build and maintenance; environmental sustainability;
solar panels and specialist glass; and property rental and sales.
Its overall ambition is to improve the lives of the people, communities
and the environment in which it operates. This is achieved by investing in
people, the planet and property, in what it is calling ‘the Art of
Living’. As a ‘profit for purpose’
organisation, Gentoo uses any profits from its commercial activity to reinvest
back in towards achieving this.
In 2011, Gentoo Group reached its tenth anniversary. During this time
it has invested over £500 million into homes and communities. In the same year, almost 10 per cent of new
homes in the north east region were built by Gentoo, and in Sunderland it
accounted for 66 per cent of them.
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Bill Fairley, Architectural Technologist at Gentoo:
“As a Group we are continuing to invest in the local community, which
includes the creation of new affordable housing schemes in and around
Sunderland and the North East region.
As part of our development and investment plans, it is important for us
to be able to precisely plot parcels of land that we are looking to buy. By doing so, it is then possible to develop
accurate architectural schemes that are used for the planning and development
process.
We rely on Landmark’s Promap service to access all
the maps we need. The process is
simple.
Via Promap it is
quick to identify the area of land in question. Once highlighted, we can order
the Ordnance Survey MasterMap that we want and in lots of varying formats. We typically work in DXF or DWG format and,
once selected, the map is downloaded from Promap and ready for immediate use."
"The Promap site is very simple to use and gives us everything we need
to create the first stage architectural schemes for our planning applications,
as well as land registration purposes.”
