Early this year we took the decision to invest in setting up a Virtual Private Network for RMA and immediately after Lockdown it became abundantly clear what a good decision this had been with the entire team able to work on uninterrupted from their various homes. With an experienced and close knit team which has been maintained and , indeed enlarged, the ensuing six months have been very productive and Richard has learned to live with having to sort out his own IT problems – or most of them at least.
And so the big decision to give up our London home in Cowcross Street, where we have been for the last seven years, and give up with it the cost, the time and the public transport perils of the daily commute. Instead we have found a splendid new base in the old Surveyors Office at Hatfield House, close to Richard’s home. The building is ideal for us, 5 minutes from the station and the A1, and only 30 minutes from King’s Cross but with the huge expanse of Hatfield Park just outside.
Some work will continue to be done from various individual homes but all of the established team can travel easily to the new base as well so there will be plenty of scope for the friendly contact that has, despite the wonders of Zoom, been one of the bigger losses of the last few months.
We very much hope that we will see you in our new office before too long. The address is RM Architects, the Bungalow, Home Yard, Hatfield House, AL9 5NF
