Design Review & Heritage Impact Assessment

Client:  Acre

Planning Consultants: Maddox Planning

Architects: Dowen Farmer

Description:  Demolition of existing office and storage buildings, and construction of six new dwellings with associated gardens, landscaping, car and cycle parking. The scheme retains the existing flats and office building. Permission received in January 2024. 

HCUK Group involvement: Providing heritage support including review of design iterations and the preparation of a Heritage Impact Assessment for submission as part of the full application. 

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Summary

The Site is located within the Orchard Road Conservation Area and the proposals replace an outdated group of office and storage buildings. The new dwellings provide six high-quality family homes and retain the existing residential flats and office building.

Because of the site's location within the Orchard Road Conservation Area, the design of the new dwellings needed to respond to the prevailing Victorian and Edwardian character of the area and to that end, the scheme was developed making use of red brick façades, recessed windows, and pitched roofs. HCUK Group were integral in the development of a final scheme that was received positively by officers. ​​