Huntingdonshire District Council is redeveloping its Pathfinder House headquarters in Huntingdon. The project will bring benefits for our customers, employees and elected members. 

Improved facilities for the public are at the heart of the project.  A new customer service centre will allow visitors to complete their business quickly and confidentially and new meeting rooms will give the public greatly improved access to the council’s decision-making process.

Pathfinder House, which has been clad in scaffolding since independent surveyors identified decay in the reinforced concrete structure, will be replaced by new office buildings to maximise the flexibility of their use in future. The work will be phased over three years in order to maintain services.

Factfile

• The new offices will be purpose-built designed to meet the needs of the 21st century, with a more comfortable, appropriate and safe working environment.
  
• The new headquarters buildings will be modern and efficient to run and they will meet the highest BREEAM environmental standards.
  
• The redevelopment of Pathfinder House will make a major contribution to the regeneration of Huntingdon.
  
• Pathfinder House was bought by the council in the mid-1970s.  It was not purpose built and had to be adapted from the very start to suit the requirements of the newly formed local authority.  Apart from its structural problems the building is now showing its age in a number of other areas.
  
• Independent structural engineers have confirmed that the irreversible deterioration of Pathfinder House’s walls will be at crisis point by 2010.  The scaffolding which keeps it safe will have to remain in place until the building is demolished.