Barton Quarter, Nottingham

The Barton Quarter is a dense brownfield urban renewal project in the centre of Nottingham. Working with the Prince’s Foundation, we have developed a masterplan for the entire site and brought forward plans for the first two phases of houses and apartments, now under construction.

The designs are based on mid Victorian exemplars found in the centre of Nottingham and have been met with almost universal acclaim locally, proving our mantra that good development can be positively welcomed by the local community in need of well-designed new homes.

Coed Darcy

Coed Darcy is a major brownfield regeneration site in South Wales. Occupying the site of the former BP Llandarcy Oil Refinery, which was decommissioned in the 1990s, Coed Darcy will contain 4000 houses in a sustainable mixed-used community.

The project is being masterplanned by The Prince’s Foundation and Alan Baxter Associates.

A site was selected to build a small number of houses to demonstrate the quality that will be sought on the site as a whole. The buildings test a range of building materials, types and sustainable technologies before they are applied on a wider scale.

We were selected to design the buildings and have drawn our inspiration from the simple local vernacular. In a number of years, the site will be incorporated into the wider masterplan and the houses will be occupied.

Weymouth Harbour

We have worked on two major projects on the south side of Weymouth Harbour that in combination would constitute the most significant urban development in the town for decades.

The first, nearing completion, is for a new McCarthy & Stone residential care home on a highly sensitive site formerly occupied by a 1930s Fire Station. The company had taken forward a design for a new block of flats where planning had raised significant issues, resulting in the loss of an appeal. We were brought in in these difficult circumstances to provide a comprehensive re-design to the site. Planning was obtained smoothly and work completed in 2018.

Immediately adjacent is the council’s 1970s office building that has fallen redundant and is being vacated. This building and car park was constructed on a cleared site of the ancient Weymouth High Street. As a result of our work next door, we were asked by West Dorset District Council to prepare a complete masterplan and outline planning application for a new scheme for the council offices.

This project achieved planning approval. It is not certain whether our scheme will be taken forward.