NEW BUILDS
Withdean Road Houses
The site lies on a hillside to the northern edge of Brighton and is within an affluent residential district enjoying views south across the city to the sea and east across the South Downs.
The development of three detached houses for the open market was founded on a brief to create high quality, contemporary homes without recourse to the rather clichéd zinc roof and white rendered modernist designs not uncommon in Brighton – while also making a family of houses that also assert a subtle individuality.
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Quay House - Emsworth
We were appointed to design a modern building, with views celebrating its unique location overlooking the Emsworth harbour. The main materials for this contemporary house of two floor detached house in Sussex are wood cladding, a pitched roof and a metal roof.
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Deptford High Street
Erection of a contemporary 2 storey house on a tiny plot of land
Our starting point for this project was an odd chunk of land wedged in behind an inner-London high street but opening out onto a much quieter road. It was being used as an unloading area for one of the shops on the high street. Our clients were interested in the idea of building a contemporary house on this unpromising site.
On the one hand, London needs all the new homes it can get. That’s particularly true for sites very near a train station and an easy walk from the London Overground and the Docklands Light Railway. This one is also well served by buses. On the other, there was no way
that you could fit a conventionally shaped house on the difficult urban plot, so we’d have to do some smart thinking about how to arrange for three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a garden in such a tight space.
require a right of way going through the new development. The local planning policy favoured construction of larger family dwellings, meaning that any design would need to have an unobtrusive profile and low impact on the area but would also provide plenty of family living space. Backland development on small garden plots, i.e. separate dwelling in garden, is always tricky because the new house might end up overlooking its neighbours, plus it can be hard to create simple ways in and out and other people or – as in this case – a company might need a route through your property.
Experienced property developers with several projects under their belts, our clients were aiming for a high ROI on their next undertaking. They saw an opportunity to develop a four-bedroom new build house on a small plot, in the garden of an existing property, and wanted to get planning permission for a separate dwelling in the garden.We began by assessing the challenges that lay ahead. The garden was tiny and there was a lot we would have to take into account, particularly the garage belonging to the original house to the front of the proposed development. At the rear of the small plot there are train tracks and a utility station that would
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