We worked, initially on a Design Build basis with the main contractor and direct for the Client, to develop the design comprising four Class B1 office units on the ground floor and sixty affordable rented and shared ownership flats over four upper floors in three separately accessed cores. Initial review of the approved scheme led to a large number of changes which required supplementary planning approval, which was successfully achieved. Also, to discharge multiple planning conditions, we worked with structural, M&E, acoustic, sustainability and other consultants to produce the relevant submissions. London Housing Design Guide, Lifetime Homes and BREEAM also had significant influence on the final designs.

It was established, at an early stage, that a reinforced concrete frame with lightweight infill panels would be the most appropriate structure to achieve the relatively low floor to floor heights which the approved planning scheme was based on and provide adequate ceiling voids for services. The frame also provided for a landscaped podium deck over a covered parking garage. A mixture of facing brick, brass and zinc facades combined with grey aluminium windows, shopfronts and entrance doors gives a clean crisp, yet luxurious, finish to the development.