Planning permission secured for an additional 73 flats and 3 houses for Winchester City Council, designed to Passivhaus Low Energy and AECB standards. This has been achieved through a landscape-led design that sensitively intensifies this existing 1960s era estate, whilst delivering significant landscape enhancements that will improve the living environment for existing residents. This scheme is currently on site, and we are advising discharge of conditions and material amendments.

This recently completed scheme provides a total of additional 28 student rooms by the upwards expansion of two existing blocks, nearly doubling the amount of accommodation. The scheme also re-imagined the external appearance of the resultant blocks, to create a new cohesive design.. This consent was achieved working with a team of consultants, including in relation to rights to light.

Listed Building Consent achieved for the large scale repair and replacement of windows to a 18th century listed townhouse lying within the Hampstead Conservation Area. We advised on the overall approach to this application, researched the heritage context and produced the Heritage Statement in support of this application.

This suburban intensification scheme in south London seeks to provide new residential units in the air space above and adjacent to this 1970s shopping parade in South London. We are advising on the overall redevelopment strategy and leading a team including structural engineers and cost consultants to ensure the project is feasible and viable.

We are currently working with a landowner client to deliver a landscape led scheme of exemplar affordable homes built to the very highest standards of sustainability, on a site on the edge of a small market town. Initially advising on the overall strategy and helping to define the brief, we are working as part of a design team that includes T2 Architects and UBU Design to submit for planning in summer 2022.

Working closely with partners at the South Downs National Park, we authored one of the first Whole Estate Plans to be endorsed by the NPA. This strategy document, is now a material consideration for all planning applications, helping to deliver a real step change for this forward thinking estate. This has helped guide the transformation of its farming infrastructure whilst delivering a number of diversification schemes in buildings that this process makes redundant. The WEP also delivers a large range of benefits, most notably the completion of the Egrets Way strategic cycle route, as well as upgrades to other rights of way to make the village accessible by off road cycle routes from Lewes.

The recent allocation of this site to the edge of this small market town was the culmination of over 5 years’ work with this historic landowning client. This allocation was achieved through the very closest working relationship with the Town Council Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group, their planning consultants and the South Downs National Park.

Planning permission was secured for the conversion of the historic farm complex to create a total of 9 design-led homes, and the relocation of farming activities to a range of state of the art farming buildings on a new site that is centrally located on the farm.

After two unsuccessful attempts with other advisors, this client came to us looking for help to unlock their proposal to create a new home for them at the centre of this active farming estate. Although the level of floorspace expansion went above that permitted by local plan policy, we achieved the consent through a context-led strategy that led to a more sensitive design informed by local historically appropriate farmstead layouts.