Hi people,
did not expect a response at all, so firstly wanted to thank you all for bothering to answer my query.
I have just checked and there is 1285 urls to redirect! So quite a lot of work to be done!!!!
Was thinking of building the site on WAMP naming the folder of the site the same as the website performing all URL redirects then swapping the sites over.
That way theoretically the process should be relatively smooth, may well rewrite a lot of the content as it is outdated and quite frankly junk.