Client: Octavia Housing
Banks Yard scheme in Hounslow has won the Best Small Development Award at the Affordable Home Ownership Awards 2009, hosted by Property Ladder’s Sarah Beeny.
The Affordable Home Ownership Awards recognise excellent low-cost home-ownership developments, whilst specifically looking for the Best Small Development to have demonstrated a successful build in a restricted space without having compromised on design and quality.
Banks Yard in Hounslow provides 10 affordable homes for rent, two of which are wheelchair accessible and 18 for shared-ownership, which are designed to Lifetime Homes Standards. Although they exceed minimum space requirements the homes were designed to be affordable to buy and affordable to run, with 10% of the renewable energy the homes use being produced onsite through solar water-heating. Heat recovery whole house ventilation and high performance timber framed external envelope help to achieve high environmental performance. The design produces a high quality of natural lighting within the homes through large windows and each home has it’s own private space, through either a garden or balcony.
The architectural design is based on the concept of two differing groups of 2, 3 and 4 storey buildings, configured to respond in a visually and functionally attractive way to Heston Park, the architectural character of New Heston Road and the existing urban context. Individual blocks are oriented to maximise the benefits of both the existing mature planting on site and of the adjacent park land.
Courtyards are configured as a safe pedestrian friendly environment with high quality landscaping to create a sense of place.
Main contractor: Inspace Partnerships
Key consultants: Conisbee (Structural engineers), Bristow Johnson & Partners (Employer agent & cost consultant), Allen Pyke Associates (Landscape architects)
Read more: http://www.pcko.co.uk/projects_24.htm
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