Category: Residential
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No 55 | Designing To Profit | Development Project
‘but I can’t get deals to stack like this’ ‘Great, thanks for this advice’, I hear you saying, ‘but I can’t get deals to stack like this… the land is too expensive’. In short, yes it is, and so generally, walk away and let someone else catch the cold. Agents will continue to push the […]
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No. 17 | Great Paxton | Brownfield Development
Brownfield Development An initial feasibility study was submitted for pre-application advice to the local authority, Huntingdonshire, and the response back was that they were happy with the principle of development. Working with our client and the planning team at WYG, we then developed a full planning application for the scheme, where a lot of challenges […]
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No. 18 | Chells Way | Interesting Brownfield Site | Stevenage
The Site | Brownfield Site Chells Way is a constrained site and irregular shape, the developer purchased the site on the basis of an old pre-application for 14 units. Once it has been instructed, there was however an issue with underground apparatus, the sewer specifically with Thames water which was a significant easement on a quarter of […]
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No. 15 | South Street | Permitted Development Rules | Worthing
The Site | Permitted Development Rules The site is in a conservation area, has groundwater flooding issues, but is in a great location, just up the road from Worthing Pier, 4 or 5 miles West of Brighton. Due to the conservation area, we had to work closely with the council conservation area, as there was a […]
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No. 10 | 1 High Street | Professional Office to Residential Permitted Development
The Site | Office to Residential Permitted Development From a stringent local authority planning team, to difficult highways constraints, conservation considerations and an intricate existing building the project demanded creative solutions from the whole team An office to residential conversion is a change of use under Permitted Development, the change of use is subject to […]
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New Flats On Commercial And Residential Buildings | Class A to Part 20 | Detailed & Insightful
Class A to Part 20 | Permitted Development rights for adding additional storeys on a block of new flats Limitations & Conditions For two storey houses, the new part allows you to add up to an additional two floors and a first floor onto existing single-story dwellings. The requirement is that the new floors must […]
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No. 4 | Ye Corner | Architect North London | Remarkable Design
Ye Corner, a residential project sited in the Watford area within a short walking distance from Bushey Station. The complexity the site presents comes from several sources. Firstly, the site was designated as Employment Land in the local plan and, although being a single freehold, it came with a series of staggered leases to multiple occupiers. […]
