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FOREWORD
WHAT HOUSE? Perhaps the marketing teams from today’s award AWARDS 2015 winners might like to find and highlight the youngest THE BEST NEW person who worked in whatever capacity on their HOMES IN BRITAIN winning scheme, who played his or her part in building I hope you enjoyed the show, one of the best new homes in Britain. the day the new homes flag The Awards received a great compliment the other flies highest. day. An ageing relative who thinks anything that A theme this year has been the skills shortage and doesn’t look like Downton Abbey should never be how to attract more young people into the allowed out of the ground admitted, having always housebuilding industry. So we were delighted today asked to peruse this annual report, that the standard to have a table of ‘apprentices’ – young industry of new homes had been steadily rising and kindly talent representing the future and determined to suggested we take some credit for it. promote what they do to their peers and those who But the credit goes to the men and women in the will hopefully follow them. room today, who, in many cases, have watched the Last year in this foreword I called for a more peaks and troughs of the new homes market across concerted effort to win hearts and minds and the 34 years of the WhatHouse? Awards. There were overcome narrow-minded criticism of new build plenty of people in the room much younger than the developments. But maybe we have been using the awards. They are the future. Recruit them, train them, wrong tactic. mentor them and standards will continue to rise. The marketing army of housebuilders needs to be We would like to thank all the housebuilders, made up of the young recruits. Not only can they tell suppliers and other industry colleagues who have their parents that their opposition to the scheme in once again supported this great event. the village is hardly helping their children get on the Special thanks to the Awards sponsors and judges housing ladder, but they can also point out that more and congratulations to the winners and everyone who homes creates more jobs for young people and that entered and attended today’s ceremony. 1750 of you. within the industry there is a rich variety of rewarding careers. Not only are they today’s young workers Rupert Bates building homes, they are tomorrow’s buyers too. Mums and dads, take a look at this Judges Report. Editorial Director This is what the best housebuilders, large and small, Globespan Media and their supply chains, can deliver. [email protected]
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HOUSEBUILDER OF THE YEAR
HOUSEBUILDER OF THE YEAR HILL When it comes to industry awards, Hill, lifting the most coveted prize in British housebuilding, has just climbed the highest mountain. The company, based in Waltham Abbey, Essex, has had a phenomenal year as a cabinet full of awards testifies. This year, schemes in Walthamstow, Cambridge and Alperton picked up awards across five categories: Best Development, Best Partnership Scheme, Best Brownfield Development, Best Starter Home Scheme and Best Sustainable Development. Hill also won a bronze for Sustainable Developer of the Year and gold for Best Medium Housebuilder, as well as the blue riband of new homes The WhatHouse? Housebuilder of the Year title. Eight awards is a stunning achievement and the fact that they were spread across such a range of categories adds to the lustre of the victories. Hill, founded in 1999, was originally a contractor, but a rebranding saw Hill Residential and Hill Partnerships brought into one business, with housebuilding now the focus as this Top 20 housebuilder by volume looks to reach a £450m turnover by 2016. Hill, building more than 1,150 homes last year, has developments in London, Essex, Norfolk, Kent, Surrey, Berkshire and Oxfordshire and continues to work on innovative partnerships, but a lot of its work is in Cambridge, a
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city creating quite a residential development reputation. Hill has a fierce commitment to customer care, as well as staff development, training and recruitment. There is also a passionate drive to encourage more young people into housebuilding and address the industry’s skills shortages. Hill has come an awfully long way from its first office – a lock-up on a Dagenham industrial estate – and there is plenty more to come from the champion builder of 2015.
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across England and Wales. carrying the potential to deliver It is strengthening its 15,000 new homes, starting with a commitment to sustainability, big scheme in Battersea. continues at the forefront of industry Berkeley is not just homes, but training, and is revolutionising its schools and other local facilities and customer service. infrastructure improvements – Redrow’s marketing continues making places and regenerating to evolve and embrace online communities. technology. Indeed, its Redrow TV Berkeley does not content itself channel includes a host of with its own personal success; it videos, highlighting not just helps drive the whole industry the developments but the way forward too, putting its head Redrow staff engage with the above the parapet to challenge communities in which they build, and innovate. Behind its deeply enjoy and deliver. impressive figures are wider As for the financial numbers, statistics. Berkeley not only delivers GOLD they are record-breaking, as 10% of all new homes in London, but Redrow the company heads into its fifth that equates to £1.4bn of economic Redrow retains its title in an decade, pushing boundaries and value and sustains 12,000 jobs. incredibly tight category where the constantly enterprising. It may build some iconic big beasts of the housebuilding To borrow from its own residential structures, but there is jungle roam. In this category it is marketing: Very Redrow. Very plenty of affordable provision there important to look behind the Impressive. too and a range of product across numbers; for what is key at the the south-east. volume end of the market is SILVER Sustainability remains at its not just what and how they Berkeley core, as are health and safety and are building, but what the customer service, not to mention a big developers are doing to ‘Building a world-class business’ is fervent commitment to apprentices promote the need for more a mantra from Berkeley. Well it’s and attracting young talent into homes, putting their names and already a long way down that the industry. reputations out there. route, not just in the quality of its Roman House – a 90-home There is an imperative to shout developments, but the strength of development in London – won the coherently about what is required its brand, reaching out across the title of Britain’s most considerate and why, in an industry that is such a world and still very much leading construction site, showing it is not key economic and social driver and the way in London. just about the end product, but how engine of growth. The Group continues to grow, you get there, while an Innovation For every big builder with a story with its latest offspring St William, a Fund rewards bright ideas across the behind the numbers, there is a big joint venture with National Grid, supply chain and stakeholders. builder who hides behind the big numbers. The public is convinced of the need for more new homes; they remain to be convinced by their quality, which is why the best – which we see in this category – must make themselves heard. Redrow once again led the field with initiatives throughout its business, backed by quality products, both traditional and contemporary,
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just dust itself down after the trials of six years ago, it has put on a whole new set of top quality clothes. Patron Capital Partners and Legal & General bought into the business and last year CALA acquired a developer of great distinction and achievement in Banner Homes. New sites, new staff and some record-breaking performance numbers, but old-fashioned virtues inform and drive the innovation. BRONZE the last year, increased its Customer care has always been Barratt completions by 11% and committed in the CALA vanguard, priding itself Barratt makes a big play about £1bn to its land bank. on its customer satisfaction ratings. tackling both the housing shortage Barratt has produced a fascinating Service comes first, but that has and the skills shortage. It is just ‘Socio-Economic Footprint’ to be backed up by the product and about the most important move in infographic, which brings home, in the attention to detail along the the industry playbook. striking numbers, the importance customer journey and beyond. The housing shortage and the of housebuilding to the economy, The word service recurs in all its skills shortage are inextricably linked: education, local amenities, the buyer testimonials. not just because you need more exchequer and the job market, CALA invests in young recruits, builders to build more homes, but while a Sustainability Report digs recognising they are the future of the because those homes need to be of into every aspect of Barratt’s business and that skills shortages can the highest quality; not just chasing business, both in terms of delivery derail new homes supply, unless numbers, but enhancing reputations and ambition. addressed now. and driving up standards. Design quality runs through its Barratt builds more than 16,000 BRONZE homes: bold and light, spacious homes a year, including nearly 3,000 CALA and sustainable. CALA has a affordable homes, right across the ‘Sustainability Pledge’ right through country and the price spectrum; CALA has broken through the from land acquisition to post-sales. £100,000 to £6m is quite a spread 1,000 homes a year barrier to Sales and marketing have always of product. enter the Best Large Housebuilder been exceptionally strong suits and Its annual output of homes also category and it has been a continue to evolve, recognising the supports more than 52,000 jobs. It is milestone year for the company in rise of e-commerce and online also clearly focused on the jobs of many other ways too. engagement. A marketing campaign tomorrow too, having established a CALA, operating in Scotland, the saw the production of four stories on housebuilding foundation degree at Midlands and the south-east, didn’t film, representing core CALA values. Sheffield Hallam University. Barratt is also recruiting 1,100 apprentices and graduates over the next three years and the builder was named Employer of the year in the National Apprenticeship Awards. As for doing its bit to address the housing shortage, Barratt, trading under Barratt Homes, David Wilson Homes and Barratt London, has opened 176 new developments in
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anything but excellence in all aspects of its business. City & Country completed on 115 properties and the last 12 months has seen two outstanding developments added to its portfolio in the King Edward VII Estate in West Sussex and The General, Bristol. A rich collection of new sites, including decommissioned prisons, has also been acquired as the company’s expansion continues. Maybe restoration is the wrong GOLD commitment to staff recruitment, word, for it is as much about Hill training and progress. Engagement revitalising, breathing fresh life Gold for an exceptional all-round with the supply chain is not only into historic buildings, but with game creating exceptional homes a commercial imperative, but a respect and sympathy and even and spaces. The rise of Hill has social one, driving shared ambitions specialist historians employed. been measured, but dramatic and standards. Complementary new build often nonetheless, as it continues its Hill works closely with local sits beside the heritage, adding transition from contractor to councils, while pipeline land holds not jarring. housebuilder, while always alert to around £650m of sales value. In City & Country part-funds the merits of joint ventures with marketing terms, Hill looks to brand Traditional Building Skills courses, key partners to unlock schemes its sites by development to cement such as thatching and wrought and drive value. the character and local significance ironwork, as well as being a Turnover broke through £250m of each scheme, with a ‘right first member of the Inspiring the Future for the first time, with profits time’ approach to its five-star programme, going into schools up 30% and an average sale price customer care. A narrow winner in to promote careers. Staff training of £500,000. the toughest of categories. and mentoring is a passion, as is Based out of an award-winning customer care. mill restoration and conversion in SILVER Classy marketing campaigns Waltham Abbey, Essex, Hill reaches City & Country and strong branding backed by out to London, Essex, Norfolk, Kent, ambassador George Clarke, the Surrey, Berkshire and Oxfordshire. City & Country won gold in this architect and television presenter, But its footprint is currently category last year, going on to win make for a compelling sales heaviest and most recognised the top prize Housebuilder of the message. The past and the future in the city of Cambridge, the buzz Year. The restoration specialist has are in safe hands. city when it comes to not just had another stellar 12 months, in technology, but new homes quality terms of product, performance and innovation too. and overall contribution to This is where several of Hill’s promoting the importance of the flagships flutter, including Ceres new homes industry beyond its and Virido, with Virido its carbon own balance sheet. zero development in the university The company may be famed city, with a family of five test- for its restoration work, but it is driving the concept house and its thoroughly dynamic and modern sustainable technology. in thinking and innovation, Quality and design are at the constantly taking on challenging heart of the Hill build, with a real projects and refusing to accept
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from Weston buyers speak volumes. The company has always been a trailblazer when it comes to charity work, be it supporting children or the armed forces. Weston is certainly growing, significantly adding to its workforce as well as its sites, having secured £120m of bank financing to expand its regional reach. The Essex-based housebuilder is looking to double in size over the next three years. Weston, selling 735 homes last year, has a projected BRONZE Churchill also operates a reward turnover for 2015 of around £200m. Churchill Retirement Living card, providing discounts to owners. Weston is a brownfield specialist Churchill Retirement Living, run by Churchill has a strong with a progressive sustainability Spencer and Clinton McCarthy, is performance culture among its staff, agenda. One of its customer care growing fast. It needs to: the whole backed by innovative initiatives, initiatives is to assign each purchaser retirement homes sector needs and the company leadership is with a dedicated customer care to in the face of overwhelming extremely vocal, engaging with assistant. Staff training is another demographic evidence of an ageing the key issues affecting the elderly strength, while Weston also runs a population urgently seeking and not just housing. Its marketing Career Start Scheme for school- appropriate housing. was supplemented by an excellent leavers, as well as a management Research suggests that around corporate video and lifestyle trainee scheme. 3.5m people over 60 in the UK would magazine. This year saw the opening of be interested in buying a specialist Weston’s corporate suite in Portman retirement property, while Churchill BRONZE Square, London W1, bringing its itself is sponsoring a PHD student Weston Homes quality brand to the heart of the to study its product and retired West End where dealmakers meet. people’s needs. Weston Homes never fails to Based in Ringwood, Hampshire, deliver and never stands still with other regional offices, under the stewardship of Churchill, already delivering Bob Weston, who founded excellent margins, is looking to the company in 1987. double sales – 492 forecast this year Weston certainly does – to more than 1,000 units by 2019. variety in its portfolio, from Staffing levels – currently at 420 – traditional brick to steel are expected to increase by 120 in and glass, with plenty of the next 12 months alone. restorative projects on listed The average age of a Churchill buildings in between. customer is late 70s, with a higher Weston knows it is not female to male ratio and likely to just about building homes, have been recently widowed. This but building communities, is why customer care is so vital, giving added value in terms understanding needs, fears and of not just amenity, but emotions and delivering the social. Enhance an area solutions in attractive, welcoming and the wellbeing of the apartment schemes close to residents, don’t just profit town centres and local amenities. from it. The testimonials
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BEST SMALL HOUSEBUILDER
Spitfire is closing in on 100 homes a year, which will mean it moving categories next year, but what it has done with its homes today is as refreshing as it is successful. Its turnover increase in the last year was 200%, but its growth is measured, underpinned by its parent IM Properties, a big player in commercial and industrial development for many years and with an international portfolio of more than £500m. The Midlands is its home territory, with developments in Dorridge, Sutton Coldfield and Knowle GOLD Times Best 100 Companies to examples of Spitfire’s architectural London Square Work For. Regular barbecues flair and ability to interpret both Small in unit numbers, big in and table tennis tournaments the needs of the local markets turnover, huge in ambition. London ensure it is not all work. For and surroundings. Square is a remarkable story. the first two years buyers are Hall Farm Estate near Knowle Set up by former senior Barratt looked after by a customer care is an outstanding scheme, mixing executive Adam Lawrence in 2010 team, supported by a dedicated a Palladian-style villa with barn when the housebuilding world was 24-hour helpline. conversions and new build, including still reeling from the credit crunch, Sustainability is a key driver too, a thatched cottage. There is a London Square, backed by Ares as is education and health and real attention to crafted detail, Management, has carved a niche safety, including interaction with using original materials where name for itself in the capital and local schools and communities. appropriate, with no compromise beyond, with beautifully designed, Marketing is bold and innovative and on internal specifications. finished and nuanced schemes media engagement outstanding. Spitfire has also flown south with across the price spectrum. Its A worthy winner. large detached houses by Ascot development pipeline now stands at racecourse, townhouses on a Roman more than £1.6bn. SILVER site in Cirencester and Georgian-style Its board of directors, brimful of Spitfire Bespoke homes near Bath. experience and enterprise, knows Homes how to spot land opportunities, unlock them and deliver. The 90 There is something completed homes in the last year about fifth birthdays ranged from Ruislip starter homes, this year. Spitfire to stylish apartments in Putney, Bespoke Homes, like Fulham and Teddington. This year London Square, has also saw the launch of The Star and only been around for Garter development on Richmond five years, but it is Hill, a remarkable restoration already growing fast and conversion project that will and moving with doubtless interest awards’ judges speed and precision, in the years to come. creating a reputation This year also saw London for its stylish designs Square selected for The Sunday and clever locations.
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Land is the raw material all developers seek and Regal is often approached by landowners to form innovative joint venture partnerships. Examples of its current projects are St Pancras Place, in London WC1, where light industrial will transform into a mixed-use scheme of apartments and commercial space. Royal Quay in Tower Hamlets sees the conversion of warehouse buildings under Permitted Development Rights, while a development in Dalston, BRONZE to the market, such as its Orchard London E8, will be Regal’s first Millwood Designer Homes Gate scheme in Ditton, Kent. Here scheme for the Private Rented When it comes to marketing, a Millwood has created what it calls Sector (PRS), with commercial space picture can be misleading or it “a small hamlet that has evolved in the mix too. Regal’s Banyan Wharf can paint a thousand words. A over time”. This is a look more development near Old Street station picture of Millwood Designer developers should strive to achieve – in London, with its construction Homes founder and managing not pastiche, but realising that innovatively illustrated with a time director John Elliott presenting complementary architecture is often lapse video, is claimed to be the a Tonbridge schoolboy with an a local winner. tallest cross-laminated timber frame award sits squarely in the residential building in Europe. thousand words camp. BRONZE Architectural flair is in Regal’s DNA The company has produced an Regal Homes as is entrepreneurship under the Encouragement Pack to celebrate leadership of joint CEOs Paul Eden and nurture achievement in schools You have to have a degree of and Simon de Friend. Regal also has close to where Millwood is building. confidence to call yourself Regal its own in-house construction team, It is not just a local PR exercise; it Homes, but the London developer, Eurobuild Properties, thus acting as promotes housebuilding as a career founded in 1998, is certainly both developer and contractor, while at a time when skills shortages and establishing a reputation for high interior design flair is a key asset too, the lack of young people entering quality – in terms of location, with innovative partnerships on the industry is seriously undermining design and delivery. luxury developments. new homes delivery. Millwood, which runs a staff profit-share scheme from site labourer to MD, carved its original niche with period- style, locally sourced homes – be they Georgian, Tudor or Yeoman farmhouses – always sympathetic to the local vernacular, but making their own striking design statements at the same time and with all the latest technology. Millwood is now about more than large detached houses and has mixed up its portfolio to include larger developments of smaller-sized properties in response
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPER OF THE YEAR
GOLD planting 400,000 trees and shrubs industry meet future challenges. All Barratt Developments at developments around the UK divisions are certified to ISO 14001. to celebrate completion of its Quite simply, the determination to In an industry where the word 400,000th home. be sustainable not only influences sustainability is much overused, Sustainable sourcing is key. the homes that the company Barratt Developments actively Barratt works closely with its supply builds but permeates its entire contributes to the sustainability chain and has created an Innovation business model, making Barratt agenda and understands its Panel tasked with finding products Developments a deserved winner of all-embracing nature. Backing and services that can help it and the this award. this is high-quality reporting, which ensures that the company’s approach to sustainability is based on hard facts rather than hypotheses. In 2014 Barratt completed 14,838 homes, including joint ventures. It scored 86% in the FTSE4Good index and 81% in the NextGeneration benchmark and claims to be the only leading housebuilder to have its sustainability report (including data) externally assured. The company is committed to achieving Building for Life 12 on all new developments and to creating a net positive impact for biodiversity and ecology. It is
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developments to Code for Sustainable Homes Level 5+ and its environmental management system is accredited to ISO 14001. The company’s CSR policy focuses on five strategic areas and it is committed to employing locally and using SMEs. Wherever possible, Hill uses sustainable, renewable and recyclable materials and components. Each of its projects runs a site waste management plan and it has adopted the BRE’s SMARTWaste plan. It has succeeded SILVER average fleet emissions and using in halving waste by employing Linden Homes new eco work cabins, have resulted measures such as modern methods in carbon emissions falling to 1.7 of construction and designing out Sustainability is embedded in tonnes per £100,000 revenue from waste by avoiding cutting on site. Linden Homes’ business and is a 2.4 tonnes in 2013. The company is currently fundamental part of its strategy The company has strengthened working on two schemes that for growth – embarking on an measures to improve suppliers’ exemplify its sustainability goals. ambitious programme that will sustainability by supporting the The Virido development is a increase production by a third – Supply Chain Sustainability School, sustainable new community in to 4,000 homes – by 2018. holding its second annual supply Cambridge where 208 homes will Over the past year, Linden chain briefing. be built following the construction Homes’ systematic approach to of a pair of concept houses built sustainability has achieved BRONZE to Code Level 5. These are being improvements in every area. The Hill extensively monitored with the company scored 73% in the results used to influence the NextGeneration benchmark and Hill specialises in developing design of the new Virido homes. has developed a Sustainability homes across London and the The second development is Agar Route Map for launch this year, south-east and strives to Grove, consisting of 95 homes setting annual targets against incorporate sustainability in the London Borough of six ‘pillars’ of sustainability. It is throughout all its business areas. Camden, which will be delivered as accredited on the FTSE4Good It has completed seven Passivhaus certified. index. Linden Homes takes a fabric-first approach and this is credited with its homes overwhelmingly achieving a ‘B’ Energy Performance Certificate. To drive down its carbon footprint, the company has established a Carbon Task Force and Carbon Management Plan, appointed Carbon Champions and engaged employees company-wide. Results in carbon reduction are reported each month to the chief executive. Further initiatives, including cutting
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HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF THE YEAR
unable to afford a an interesting year, generating a place of their own; record surplus of £44m while designing in increasingly diversifying its solutions to two of activities. The judges were the big housing particularly impressed by the problems people breadth of projects A2Dominion now face in is involved with, with schemes London. ranging from 18 homes in Yet while going Winchester to 820 homes in Ealing. head to head with As lead developer at the the big developers Elmsbrook phase of the NW Bicester on luxury £1m plus eco town, A2Dominion is delivering apartments or in 393 zero carbon homes, while the large-scale private launch of the FABRICA brand, rented schemes, which encompasses private sale, L&Q keeps a firm shared ownership and private rental hold of its roots, homes, has added a new string to making sure its big A2Dominion’s bow, strengthening its GOLD profits are used to support its social commercial activities. L&Q purpose in a big way – building The solidity and consistency of the L&Q takes the honours for the affordable homes in volumes that group was illustrated by its ability sheer scale of its impact in the place it solidly at the forefront of to raise £150m from investors in markets in which it works and the sector and creating £14m of just 24 hours after issuing a second for the innovation it continues community benefit this year through retail bond; the funds will be used to to show. the charitable L&Q Foundation. support a 4,300-home development L&Q is becoming a genuine L&Q is perhaps the first housing pipeline and services. competitor to the big housebuilders association to have built genuine Although the group is firmly in London and the south-east. It’s market-influencing power in its areas focused on the future, it invested now involved in 20% of London’s of operation. It stands out for its £37.4m over the past year in repairs housing development output and is financial strength, thoughtfulness, and renovations to existing stock planning to build 50,000 homes over influence and ambition. and launched a five-year customer the next 10 years, a scale of building service strategy to improve its that would launch it into the top five SILVER services. A2Dominion also retained or six developers, private or public, in A2Dominion its place in the Sunday Times Top 100 the country. Not for Profit Organisations to Work Most housing associations can A consistently impressive For list, as well as its Investors in only look on in envy at the financial performer, A2Dominion has had People Gold accreditation. muscle L&Q brings to bear – a surplus of £209m in 2014/15 alone – and the power of the L&Q brand in the market. But L&Q uses its brain as well as its brawn. Like the innovative ‘multi-generation house’ at the £142m Chobham Manor scheme in the Olympic Park: a number of family homes will include a separate annexe, offering independent living to grandparents no longer able to manage alone or adult children
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7.6%, having completed 1,288 new homes, and more than doubling its surplus to a record £49.2m (up from £23.3m the previous year). Operating margin increased from 29.6% to 35.5%, and turnover increased by 21.4% to £189m. Network secured £22.7m from the GLA programme for 2015-18, the second largest grant allocation of any housing association in London, as well as HCA grant funding for 330 homes in Hertfordshire. Aside from the financials, the group completed a complete governance restructure, moving SILVER All of this has been done from a federal system to a North Wales Housing while working to the highest consolidated group, purchased its North Wales Housing is a relatively sustainability standards, providing headquarters building in Wembley small housing association that new apprenticeships and work as a future strategic development packs a big punch in the placements, and driving service opportunity, and established a communities in which it works. It is improvements for existing residents. central asset management team. everything a community-based North Wales Housing adds real To keep pace with other similar housing association should be. value for its communities and its organisations, Network has NWH has spent a lot of time local partners and is a worthy delivered its first PRS homes in understanding and thinking about recipient of the silver award. partnership with Crown Estates, the needs of its communities and and launched Network Living, its then working out strategies to meet BRONZE private development brand. A new those needs successfully. It’s a great Network Housing Group customer contact centre has enabled example of not always requiring the group to deliver a better service the biggest resources to deliver Network Housing Group has had a with faster response times and big impacts if an organisation is truly momentous year, celebrating longer opening hours. Just under focused, innovative and committed its 40th anniversary by topping the 90% of customers said they were to its purpose. housing association league table satisfied or very satisfied with the Among the many instances of for the largest increase in stock – at service they received. NWH’s positive achievements this year are two new extra care schemes in Abergele and Bangor, housing more than 90 older residents; a dementia care home for 16 people in Old Colwyn; transforming ugly and derelict buildings into excellent new homes in Ruthin, Rhyl and Llanberis through its empty homes strategy; and working in partnership with a Community Land Trust to create the first urban housing cooperative in Wales, now onsite with its first new development.
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on this list, but it is the setting for a regeneration project that is beginning to put the former mining village back on the map. In creating Roman Fields, Places for People has shown an understanding of local economic conditions, the needs of the community and the demands of buyers to create a balanced and visually appealing development in a stunning location. The first-phase of homes here GOLD street, it’s also been perfectly has sold quickly, with buyers aided Thames Valley Housing situated for workers in town and by a range of tenures, including Russell Square, Horley, commuters. developer shared equity, Surrey This attractive building replaced government shared equity, rent- Thames Valley’s Shared Ownership the very tired, former headquarters before-you-buy, and Help to Buy. Plus initiative has already won of Dan-Air on a convenient central With properties ranging from two- many plaudits for simplifying the site, enhancing both the street scene bedroom flats at £97,500 to three- staircasing process and helping and the housing stock of the heart bedroom semi-detached homes for buyers increase their ownership of the town. £135,000, the development has of a home in a steady and cost- It was clear to the judges that provided great accessibility for local effective way. no stone was left unturned in the buyers, first-time buyers working in At this development of 89 planning and execution of this the city and downsizers. Phase two is apartments, all properties (bar the development and that it has without already underway and is sure to be 14 affordable rent homes) were question brought the benefits of equally popular. available through a part-buy/part- homeownership to many who would Everything about this rent arrangement, including the not otherwise have stepped on the development has a community feel, penthouses. property ladder. with local residents playing a key role All properties come with private in the consultation stage. Indeed, outdoor space and allocated SILVER it is rare to see a development that parking alongside a strong interior Places for People is so universally welcomed by the specification. With a possible initial locals. For its picturesque views, Roman Fields, Twechar, East deposit of under £5,000, first-time financial accessibility, quality of buyers were given a realistic chance Dunbartonshire homes and effect on the local to own a quality, brand new home Twechar, near Glasgow, might be community, Roman Fields is here, only needing to provide their one of the least familiar locations certainly deserving of its award. furniture. And with a deal struck with a local department store to give buyers at Russell Square a 5% discount on items, even that was less expensive than they might have expected. With Gatwick airport just down the road, Russell Square has understandably been popular with locals employed there. Just a couple of minutes from the station and high
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there is an impressive spread of tenures on offer, including affordable rent, private sale, shared ownership and Rent to Save. This development has proved very accessible for first- time buyers, with a deposit of just £5,500 needed to purchase a 40% share of a one-bedroom apartment (full price £275,000). One of the most impressive aspects of this development is the sense of tranquillity it retains, just a BRONZE taken precedence in the build couple of hundred yards from a busy sequence but the final private sale high street. 243 Ealing Road faces Notting Hill Housing buildings will be handed over by the on to the Grand Union Canal, and Camberwell Fields, end of 2015. each property boasts some form of Camberwell, London, SE5 Huge windows bring light outdoor space, allowing residents to Many of the people who have flooding in and add to the exterior enjoy a peaceful lifestyle well within lived in Camberwell for some appeal of the blocks, and homes reach of central London. There will time consider it something of an have well-proportioned rooms and a also be eight new communal public overlooked gem in south London. high-quality all-round specification spaces across the development, with While neighbouring Elephant & as standard. A good-sized balcony Union Square the centrepiece. Castle has made many headlines, the or terrace to each apartment and With the addition of commercial regeneration of SE5 has been quiet gardens to the houses have made units, Zipcar facilities, 24-hour CCTV and effective, with Camberwell them practical spaces to enjoy surveillance and estate management Fields representing a great example rather than token attachments to services, 243 Ealing Road is a visually of what that can achieve, bringing each home. impressive, well-thought-out and social and affordable rented homes, affordable development for first- shared ownership apartments and BRONZE time buyers. private sale flats and houses. Hill Close to the centre of the capital 243 Ealing Road, and with some well-regarded local schools and a diverse array of Alperton, London, 0 independent shops, cafés and HA businesses, the area has always 243 Ealing Road is attracted a very broad spectrum of already playing a key residents, and Notting Hill Housing role in the wider has done well to provide properties regeneration of to suit the range of homebuyers who Alperton, which will have purchased here. eventually see 1,600 The unloved grey blocks of new homes coming the old Elmington Estate have to the area as part been replaced by colourful and of a £520m project contemporary buildings that have spearheaded by brought new vibrancy to the area. Brent Council. The mix of designs and finishes The seven colourful for the different blocks make for buildings here range attractive scenes from every corner. from six to 14 storeys and The affordable housing blocks have across the 441 properties
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Carefully detailed mitred tread oak stars lead down to a great family room/guest suite, which opens out on to an attractive external terrace area, with steps up to the garden level. There is also a good-size bathroom, a huge, well-equipped utility room and a generous-size storage room or study on this level. The master suite is on the first floor overlooking the rear garden, together with a second bedroom, family bathroom and a third single bedroom. The judges particularly liked the huge roof light over the GOLD kitchen/dining/reception room stairs and were also impressed by Q Developments and out on to the linked external the colour palette for the walls, The Longfords, Teddington, terraces and garden beyond. floors, carpets and contrasting dark London, TW11 The well-designed, clean white wood veneered doors. This is a small, gated mews kitchen with breakfast bar is A great house packed with development of three very well specified and the thoughtful details and a very well- contemporary four-bedroom reception area has a wonderful deserved winner. Congratulations to terraced houses and one two- contemporary fireplace. Q Developments. bedroom house at the rear, all with gardens, terraces and dedicated off-street parking, set back from the road behind a gatehouse and three traditional style townhouses at the front. This attractive scheme was designed by 5plus Architects, on the site of an old petrol station. Behind the cool slatted timber and stepped yellow brick front elevations, these tardis-like terrace houses have been carefully planned to provide very well-proportioned, beautifully light living spaces that flow seamlessly into one another. Outside, the off-street parking is placed within the attractively landscaped communal garden where well-detailed slatted cedar fencing increases privacy for the residents. The interesting timber screens on the front elevations are a clever touch. The entrance hall feels light and spacious, with a decent-sized cloakroom adjacent to the front door. The hall opens into a wonderful, light, open-plan
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plan kitchen/dining living space with well, has been used for the exterior its amazing view and the clever timber cladding. Expansive floor-to- minimal styling reinforce the ceiling glazing allows the interiors to attention to detail, giving the be flooded with natural light. There overriding impression of a very are balconies at the front and back special, non-standard product. providing plenty of outside space. Externally, the underground The plans have been carefully parking area is discreetly concealed thought out to work well for family behind gabion walls. Residents can holiday living and there is an added drive in through electric gates, park option for buyers to select bespoke and access their house directly from layouts and finishes. below. This design together with The interiors are modern and the very-well-executed landscaping flexible, offering good living SILVER maintains the clean rural views and accommodation. On the ground keeps the cars out of sight. floor there is a lovely, light, open- Kilpark Properties plan reception/kitchen with sliding Bronlei Woods, Bramley, glazed doors opening on to a near Guildford, Surrey BRONZE Habitat First Group wonderful outside deck space. There This is a small, private is a separate utility/mud room and The Water Garden, Lower development of four semi- cloakroom with an external shower detached three-bedroom houses Mill Estate, Somerford and a study that can double up as a set in an attractive, sloped Keynes, Gloucestershire fifth bedroom – great for older woodland setting on the outskirts The Water Garden is part of a relatives. Upstairs on the first floor of Bramley near Guildford in development of 10 contemporary there are four bedrooms, two with Surrey. Two paths wind through detached four-bedroom holiday en suites and a family bathroom. the light wooded grounds, homes positioned informally Access to the roof terrace is via a punctuated with magnificent around a central garden and linked central stair through an electronically specimen trees to lead the visitor by canals to the lakes within the operated glazed window where up steps to an elevated terrace unique rural surroundings of Lower there is plenty of private space for and into the houses beyond. Mill Estate in the Cotswolds, where sunbathing and al fresco dining. Most of the buildings in the village a 550-acre nature reserve provides The Water Garden offers are predominantly traditional families with a 21st-century exceptional value for money, rural period properties, so these country retreat. with fantastic green credentials. modern houses stand out as an These contemporary-style houses The specification is very good unashamedly contemporary have been cleverly designed by for the price. product, yet they do not look Andy Ramus for Habitat First Group. out of place. All the homes are detached and Designed by architect Mike arranged over two floors, each with Cooper, this is a very successful its own private rooftop terrace reinvention of a Huf Haus/chalet but providing sweeping views over the with lots of style and panache. The surrounding countryside. The sleek quality of the detailing and the modern styling and the use of implementation of a scheme using natural materials allow them to high-quality products are apparent. blend seamlessly into the rest of the The internal features, cool development while still having their timber stairs, the expansive use of own distinctive character. glass and double-height volumes The elevations are simple and all emphasise the feeling of functional. Sustainable western red spaciousness. The generous open- cedar, which should age and weather
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bedrooms and blinds included as prized properties – think £4.25m for a standard. It was admirable too to see first-floor, two-bedroom apartment plates matching light switches and and £5.75m for a lavish, three- heating control panels. bedroom duplex – but it can be Specifications are elevated and argued it is money well-spent, as the customer service generous. St James price tag includes all of the upmarket doesn’t walk away when there’s a and well-chosen furniture. problem after the warranty runs out. The judges applauded the grand, It stands firmly by its product. There long, lateral living spaces, with are two colour palettes for smaller plenty of room to seat eight at a apartments and a certain amount of dining table as well as accommodate flexibility for purchasers who might a good-sized, German-engineered want to make a few tweaks. Prices kitchen and a pleasing and comfy GOLD from £335,000 to £5,860,000 are zone for relaxation. St James reasonable considering what your Also worth noting are pocket Riverlight, Vauxhall, get for your money. sliding doors to divide the kitchen London, SW8 Most heartening is that from the rest of the living area, St James is at the forefront of Riverlight’s design has proven to be remote controlled blinds and the new riverside Nine Elms so triumphant. Other developers heating system, an en suite neighbourhood in south-west at Nine Elms will be following St bathroom with each bedroom, London, with 813 apartments James’s overall masterplan, which waterfall showers, underfloor across three completed should result in a splendid new heating and terrific operations via buildings and three more under district for the capital. Creston, Sky and iPads. construction. The judges were Added soupçons are wardrobes impressed by the landscaping – SILVER that instantly light up and where thankfully, no springy chickens, Oakmayne Bespoke every inch of space is used; tiles but RCA artist Kate Davies’ running all the way up walls and 10 Soho Square, London, W1 pleasing scheme from natural classic brown marble in bathrooms; materials discovered when the Undoubtedly luxurious, the five televisions in every room; and witty tide goes out. capacious apartments in a and effective interior design by Other favourable points include converted, Grade II listed Soho Lambert and Browne, evident not the prow-like design by architect Square building originally leased only inside the apartments but on Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners; a by the Duke of Portland, are an staircases and in all the communal balcony attached to each apartment; example of how developers are parts of the building. smart and sizeable lobbies; two increasingly delivering homes at a Storage and use of space is concierge stations; residents’ lounge; commendable level. generous and well thought out, a pool in a double-height space with a It’s true that you’ll require a decent from the design of dressing room Jacuzzi, sauna, steam room and luxe bank balance to attain one of these areas to adding extra shelves at the changing rooms; and a well-equipped top of cupboards and providing gym. It’s impressive that the chief inviting seating and a mini-library executive of St James test drives on a landing area. gyms at his projects on weekends to Overall, the contemporary make sure they’re up to scratch. finishes blend artfully with the Small touches identify a older skeleton of the edifice, gold winner: bathroom pods providing cheeky but classic manufactured offsite, a shower that apartments that come with a year’s ensures you don’t get wet when membership to private concierge you turn it on, units pre-wired for club Quintessentially to cater to a sound, and wardrobes in secondary purchaser’s every need.
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medium or dark palette options Highlights in this thought- for interiors. provoking project include dropping a The word bespoke is bandied modern, kitchen pod into the long, about with abandon these days, lateral apartment located in the but wardrobes constructed by former first floor function room; London Square’s carpenters all reinstalling roses and cornicing differ, depending on the space in based on original designs; providing each apartment. Judges also liked roomy bathrooms and terraces; the absence of ‘wall acne’ – a putting in an eco-friendly sedum maddening array of controls and roof; and glazing roofs to allow as switches that could detract from much light as possible inside. the clean-lined design. There’s been a strong emphasis SILVER Parking is one for one – a space for on using the best of materials, in London Square one car for each apartment. Parking order to increase longevity and London Square Putney, is included in the price with The sensibly cut down on the cost and Putney, SW15 Terrace Collection, while extra spaces time to carry out repairs. A good mix for other units is £40,000 per bay. of the contemporary and the ancient As soon as you glimpse the three London Square is playing a lends the scheme a good deal of different grey-hued handmade leading role in reinstating a green character and a sense of homeliness. bricks shipped from Amsterdam on and leafy quarter, part of a wider All the apartments are furnished the outside of 113-unit London regeneration scheme. A good mix of well by in-house interior designers in Square Putney, you know you’re in upmarket and quirky independent an effort to try to raise the bar in the for something special. shops, restaurants and bars are private rentals sector. Storage is The aura of specialness carries arriving – a promising sign for the generous, with large cupboards off over to the green glazed tiles at the future of this previously ignored hallways and voluminous wardrobes entrance and into the uber-groovy, Upper Richmond Road corner – something not normally associated concrete lobby that’s reminiscent of Putney. with rental properties. of the Tate Modern. Architect The judges liked efforts to obtain Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, BRONZE dual-aspect and eye-line views – for please take a bow. Martins Properties example, there’s terrific architectural The judges also approved of the focus on a bay window in one of the 195-197 King’s Road, tiered gardens that are part and apartments – and make good use of parcel of The Terrace Collection. Chelsea, London, SW3 unusual angles in this intriguing and It’s not surprising there are only An unusual, but interesting model, inspirational refit of a period building. three out of 12 apartments left, family-owned Martins Properties is priced from £1.2m and rising to a property investment business £2.2m for the generously based in London’s Chelsea, which proportioned penthouse. owns and manages commercial Other features worthy of and residential property. mention are a winter garden or This Grade II listed, 19th-century balcony with every apartment (the former restaurant and pub has been penthouse is munificently rewarded imaginatively transformed into six with four terraces, including a huge apartments with the help of architect south-facing area with seating Paul Davis + Partners. Even though and eating areas); large storage Martins Properties has recently sold cupboards to hold washer-driers; off some of its residential stock, the glass splashbacks running the units in the reinvigorated block on full-length of showers; pre-wired the King’s Road are currently being speakers for sound; and light, successfully rented.
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gardens, Waverley House entirely suits its setting. With four enviable bedroom suites and a further two bedrooms on the second floor, Waverley House has been designed to maximise the use of space and lavish it with a specification designed to dazzle guests or provide a private retreat of opulence. The master suite has an expansive dressing room finished with suede-panelled doors and a GOLD the corner for unobstructed views stunning bathroom with outstanding Q Developments and indoor/outdoor entertaining. book-matched marble walls. Laurel Grove, Kingston upon IT hasn’t been forgotten. A self-contained annexe lies Thames, Surrey Everything is controlled by app but above the triple garage while the there are also seven ports for iPads, main house is unashamedly out to The affluent buyer seeking that which charge the iPad and allow impress from the first step inside. A perfect combination of location, easy control of AV and ambience. sweeping staircase rises majestically luxury and lifestyle need look no A house of this substance from a marble-floored hall, which further than Laurel Grove where wouldn’t be complete without a spa has the classic view through to the they’ll find, tucked away down which is where the 13m pool, sauna, dining room and the garden beyond, a private lane and behind oak fitness room and changing area allowing light from both aspects. electric gates, a house of some come in, with accommodation nicely The stairs, clad in polished Botticino 11,000ft², which borders the 1st rounded off by a cinema room marble with a wrought iron baluster green of Coombe Hill Golf Course. complete with bar. and bronze handrail, set the scene To ensure complete privacy, six It’s the cumulative effect of the for the rest of the house, which sequoia evergreens were craned subtle, luxurious detailing that combines practical warmth with into position. makes this a timeless property of the understated luxury. Even the open- Q Developments has broken finest finish. plan kitchen is designed to impress with its customary contemporary with its vast central island. style, opting for more traditional SILVER Waverley House flows with elevations, but the story changes Searchfield Homes easy elegance, an outstanding once inside. Three-metre-high specification and stunning Waverley House, Farnham, ceilings and a galleried hall provide presentation. the perfect setting for Surrey contemporary artwork, while Classical elevations glass balusters to the dramatic reminiscent of the staircase set the scene for Georgian period minimalist style. Natural light conceal an elegant ripples through the house thanks interior at this to clever plot positioning and impressive six- extensive windows. bedroom house A David Linley kitchen with spanning around dark, cafe noir doors and a 7,500ft². Set in an comprehensive range of appliances acre and a quarter leads through the open-plan of gently sloping breakfast zone to the orangery, and terraced where glass doors slide back from landscaped
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opening out to the pool room, which features a double-height ceiling and a 10m swimming pool with hot tub, steam room and changing room. Twin sets of bi-folding doors open out to the garden while a floating staircase leads up to a mezzanine air-conditioned gym overlooking the pool. Glenthorne provides plenty of formal and informal living areas. The BRONZE storage units. Finishes including open-plan kitchen/breakfast/family Antler Homes coffered ceilings, triple coving, room spanning some 35ft by 28ft is Archdale Manor, Cheam, stunning garden landscaping cleverly zoned to create a feeling of Surrey and comprehensive AV and informality and home. security, ensure Archdale Manor An elegant curved walnut It’s the subtle design touches and is a remarkably accomplished staircase reflects the Arts & Crafts bold interior layout behind the new home. style to perfection, leading to the symmetrical architecture that five first-floor bedroom suites and a lift Archdale Manor into award- BRONZE sixth bedroom suite on the second winning realms. With some CALA Homes floor. A balcony leads from the air- 7,500ft² of beautifully finished conditioned master suite, which Glenthorne, Bentley Priory, accommodation set over three incorporates a dressing room storeys, this six-bedroom home is Stanmore, London, HA7 with natural light and a suitably one of two built by Antler Homes. Behind the wrought iron gates impressive bathroom. The classic design incorporates stands a substantial family home, Staff have been considered with a tall, hardwood, sliding sash windows, which provides a generous self-contained studio over the triple which are taken out of the ordinary 7,500ft², including a stylish garage, which is linked to the main by a gentle curve to the upper edge. ground-floor leisure wing. Leading AV system in case owners prefer to The front door leads into a from the main accommodation use it as a games room or separate traditional vestibule that then opens is a contemporary spa area home office. out into a magnificent octagonal reception hall, which is naturally lit from a corresponding octagonal roof light and a graceful 6m-high chandelier. The stairs are set back discreetly in an inner hallway to preserve the clean symmetry of the central core of the house, which is replicated on each floor with banisters edged with a walnut handrail. Space abounds, with a dining room that comfortably seats 12 and an open-plan kitchen that opens to an orangery as well as breakfast and relaxation areas, and is finished with lacquered espresso macassar
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landmark Grade II listed Bristol General Hospital will provide 205 one- to four-bedroom apartments and houses, together with a collection of waterfront commercial units. City & Country has stripped away the many unsightly accretions and unsympathetic ‘renovations’ that had occurred since the Victorian hospital was built and, in so doing, rediscovered the essence and character of the buildings. The GOLD context is key. Mindful of this, the historic details have been well City & Country renovation encompasses the understood and, with the help of King Edward VII Estate, gardens and surrounding estate. skilled craftspeople and the use Midhurst, West Sussex At the heart of the development, of appropriate materials, careful the chapel, which is one of the renovation has been undertaken, Built in 1901 as a specialist most important elements of the site, including the overhaul of original tuberculosis hospital, the former has undergone equally careful windows and stone repairs. sanatorium is being converted renovation and is planned eventually Notable is the reinstatement of by City & Country to provide to serve as a cafe or shop. the internal courtyard. An even apartments and houses in the greater challenge, successfully met, Grade II* listed buildings which GOLD is the division of the buildings so form part of the 164-acre estate City & Country the interiors work as homes and that lies within the South Downs communal spaces, adding a new The General, Bristol National Park. layer of history while maintaining The design for the hospital and The General puts the City into readability of the retained fabric. its grounds was undertaken by an City & Country by proving that Within this context, the extensive important triumvirate of the day: the company can tackle a complex enabling development is also being Charles Holden, Percy Adams and urban project with just as much executed by City & Country and, Gertrude Jekyll – a partnership linked panache as those in more rural although not complete, this appears to the Arts & Crafts movement. The locations. When complete, the to exemplify the best qualities of work undertaken by City & Country renovation and conversion of the new design in a historic setting. is an exemplar of how, through thoughtful design and attention to detail, old buildings can be adapted without compromising the original designer’s aims. Poorly executed later additions have been carefully stripped away to reintroduce the original feelings of space and light. Specialist craftspeople have been involved throughout, repairing intricate ceiling plasterwork, stonework, flooring, wall panelling and fireplaces while light fittings have been painstakingly replicated. As with all historic buildings,
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formal gardens. Sadly the entire site had fallen into disrepair and, after nearly 20 years of neglect, the brickwork was crumbling, the ornate windows were broken and the interiors, which had been open to the elements, were suffering from wet rot and insect infestation. Comer Homes has renovated some 230,000ft² of accommodation and created 250 apartments and houses, together with an indoor swimming pool and communal entertaining space in the former SILVER A redundant social services dining hall. Considerable thought PH Property Holdings facility to the rear of the site was appears to have been given to Hulme Hall, Cheadle Hulme, demolished to make room for 11 new how the old buildings should be Cheshire homes, well executed in a mews divided. Interventions, such as the style in keeping with the site’s introduction of new door openings, Dating back to the 17th century, history. A well-landscaped space have been carefully conceived the Grade II listed Hulme Hall between the hall and the homes and executed to minimise loss of had undergone restoration and ensures that these are discrete from original fabric and there is a high extensive additions during the 19th the historic building. degree of readability where change and 20th centuries and had most has been necessary. recently been used as a residential BRONZE It is clear that skilled craftspeople care home. Comer Homes were involved in the work, including PH Homes has taken great care to brick specialists, stonemasons, Royal Connaught Park, understand the building and execute glaziers, joiners and master its renovation to a high standard. Bushey, Hertfordshire carpenters, who worked in Incongruous modern extensions Set within 100 acres, the Grade II workshops set up on site and were demolished and through listed buildings of the former Royal recreated items such as ridge ties. vertical subdivision, which enabled Masonic School, which was Importantly, the patina of age has the retention of principal rooms in opened in 1903, are arranged been retained and facades have not their original form, the Hall has been around cloisters, quadrangles and been over repaired. thoughtfully converted to create three, well-proportioned, two-storey homes while retaining as much original fabric as possible. Notably, the oldest part of the building is timber framed. Specialist repairs to the oak frame involved cutting out rotten timber and splicing in new as well as the painstaking repair of wattle and daub panels. Using conservation techniques, original plaster ceilings were wired back to the joists while stained glass windows were repaired.
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GOLD nature and sustainability at the heart Hill of the development. The Scene, Walthamstow, This phase, The Water Garden, London, E17 consists of just 10 detached houses surrounded by a network of canals. This is a joint venture between Each property is two storeys, with a Hill, Waltham Forest Council and rooftop terrace and far-reaching Islington & Shoreditch Housing views over the estate. Association. It delivers a modern The construction of the houses is sustainable development to the focused on sustainability. Energy- heart of Walthamstow, north-east efficient materials have been London, offering 48 homes for selected and, wherever possible, private sale and 73 affordable these have been locally sourced. homes both rented and shared Each home also has an air-source ownership and is just the type of heat pump, zoned underfloor development required in London to each of the apartment blocks. heating for every room, rainwater address housing needs. It also Internally, detailing is simple, recycling and greywater harvesting. provides a new, purpose-built, solid and robust. Yet the high- The ground floors are open-plan 1,200-seat, nine-screen cinema and specification flooring, kitchen units, with large areas of glazing opening five new commercial units primarily and sanitaryware give an upmarket out on to decks accessed by sliding for restaurant use. It is also touch. Apartment layouts are glass doors. The glazing and direct therefore an exciting mixed-use straightforward and uncluttered. access to the decked area is designed development delivering vibrancy The whole scheme has a simplicity to create a seamless link to the and vitality to what had been for and order that defies its complexity. outside. In addition, the expansive many years a vacant, cleared site It provides immeasurable benefits to glazing means the interiors are contributing nothing to the area. the area, both architecturally and flooded with natural light, reducing The design acts as a focal point socially. The partnership is to be the need for electric lighting during and catalyst, playing a significant congratulated on creating such an the day and heating the house part in the regeneration of the town iconic development. through solar gain. centre, which has suffered from Great care has been taken to migration of economic activity to SILVER blend the design into this sensitive other centres, principally Stratford Habitat First Group location. The exterior facades, for in east London. example, incorporate western red Lower Mill Estate, The coexistence of housing above cedar, which has been selected to a cinema and restaurants brought Somerford Keynes, blend in to the natural environment numerous challenges to the design Gloucestershire as it ages and weathers. team in terms of structure, acoustic The silver award goes to an separation, and performance, which outstanding scheme of all seem to have been successfully contemporary holiday homes addressed within a framework of located in the heart of the an ordered elevational treatment, Cotswolds, just five miles from well articulated. Detailing of Cirencester and set within a glazed brickwork, balconies and stunning 500-acre nature reserve. fenestration is clean and precise and Lower Mill Estate was established the choice of materials well thought in 1995 by the late Jeremy Paxton through. The scheme presents an and Habitat First Group, the family excellent presence to the street run company, which continues to run frontages and the judges particularly the business with a vision to create liked the waved form delineating holiday home communities with
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BRONZE garden areas that are private and Hopkins Homes aren’t overlooked. In addition, full- St Michael’s Place and Bure height glazed openings with bi-fold Place, Aylsham, Norfolk doors and screens have been used as an effective way of breaking down Dating from the 19th century and the divide between the outside within extensive grounds, Bure and the inside. This successfully Place was originally designed as extends the living space by bringing the Aylsham Union Workhouse by the inevitably limited garden space William Donthorn, in 1848, one into the houses. of some dozen workhouses in Internally, the open-plan living has Norfolk, designed and built by this been adopted and this has created local architect, interestingly all in a an imaginative and contemporary similar linear neo-gothic style. ground floor, which makes excellent This building has been very well use of natural light to create airy, restored as part of this project, The judges’ main concern was the flexible living spaces. The finish of retaining many original features extent of development, which felt the interiors is equally as impressive: including the stunning front perhaps a little excessive, and the high-quality kitchens, bathrooms, elevation window, castellated treatment of the water tower, which flooring all add to the overall parapets, tiled domes, and really looked rather out of place. modern clean lines and calm, stonework. Internally, great However, Hopkins Homes is to be sophisticated feeling. challenges were presented, congratulated on a well-designed The new-build elements have particularly in incorporating the and executed development bringing used timber frames, with colour existing fenestration within the new life to a stunning building and through renders and aluminium plan forms, and this has been very its environs. windows. All of which involve very successfully addressed, creating 38 low maintenance and long life, which bespoke properties. BRONZE is becoming increasingly important St Michael’s Place consists of a Freeman Homes to buyers, the sustainability of the further 131 two-, three- and four- development, and housebuilding The Avenue, Ross-on-Wye, bedroom houses. These have been industry as a whole. Congratulations sensitively and carefully located Herefordshire on an innovative, quality within the estate grounds forming a This is a small but exciting development. hinterland of new development development, located in the beyond the original buildings and desirable Ross-on-Wye. Formerly a thus retaining the impact of the nursing home, the project includes original on entering the site. the conversion of the existing The appearance of the new building to form three apartments insertions reflect the style of the and the construction of two original refurbished buildings and single-storey ‘lodges’ and four have a simple robust Victorian three-storey houses. feel, correctly proportioned and It successfully combines a detailed and with a good choice contemporary style with simple of materials. building forms to create an Inevitably in this rural location, interesting, attractive and bold car parking makes a visual impact housing scheme. but there is a clever use of screened At first glance what appears to be car courts that lessens this effect. a very simplistic site layout has Landscaping is also critical here and actually been carefully considered to this has been well implemented. ensure that each dwelling has some
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demographic that was shared ownership and affordable previously priced out of rent, this scheme is also the area. responsible for three new The private sale restaurants and a new Empire homes have been multiplex cinema. popular with a variety of The completion of this buyers, including local development is impressive not only downsizers. There are an because of its location, a stone’s impressive 14 house throw from Walthamstow’s bus and types among the 48 Tube transport hub, but because of homes, all designed in the sheer number of parties involved the local vernacular to and the management of a number of sit comfortably in the strict deadlines. landscape (a designated The town centre location Area of Outstanding meant working on a very small Natural Beauty); and the footprint, allowing shoppers to 56 allotments were access the surrounding streets GOLD replaced by 87 new ones. and trying to keep as much of a Cavanna Homes, Clinton Perhaps Horizon’s most enduring ‘business as usual’ scenario Devon Estates quality is the sense of how much while bringing this impressive Horizon, Budleigh Salterton, each of the stakeholders really element to Walthamstow’s Devon cared about its delivery and success, regeneration scheme. and it shows in the final product It was of course necessary to Budleigh Salterton has the dubious and the budding new community balance the expectations of the honour of having one of the it is creating. three main partners, but as the highest average aged inhabitants retail and cinema elements neared of any town in the UK, with SILVER completion, extremely tight 41% of its residents aged 65 or Hill, Waltham Forest deadlines had to be met, and the over, compared with a national project manager had to deal with Council, Islington & average of 16%. The town also has the additional responsibilities of a highly organised Nimby lobby, Shoreditch Housing the cinema and restaurants chains and, consequently, this exemplary Association fitting out their new premises. scheme is the first development of The Scene, Walthamstow, At its busiest point, the new homes in Budleigh Salterton London, E17 development had 565 for around 15 years. As well as 121 new homes, around subcontractors onsite daily, but A partnership of landowner 60% of which were made for these large-scale logistics were Clinton Devon Estates and local developer Cavanna Homes teamed up with LHC Architecture and Exeter-based housing association Cornerstone to deliver 48 new homes on a plot of 2.5 acres that was home to 56 community allotments. It has been a remarkable success – Cornerstone was involved early in the design process and the affordable housing (40% of the development) has been allocated mainly to young local families – a
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delightful hilltop village of Minchinhampton reinforces this strength once again. The £9.5m scheme has provided 66 homes of one, two, three and four bedrooms over two sites, the council adopting 35 of them for shared ownership and affordable rent. There are five different levels of interior specification, depending on whether homes are for rent, shared ownership or open-market sale, tackled by a supportive partnership but the scale of the project meant though from the outside this pepper- at every stage. that it decided to bring in partner potted scheme is tenure blind. The striking contemporary design developers to bring the site to Lovell has created some attractive has made The Scene a landmark in fruition. Rejecting several attractive street scenes: some of the properties the town, generating much-needed, financial offers in favour of partners overlook a generously sized green, high-quality new homes from a chosen for their credentials and allowing parents to watch their complex but supremely managed suitability for the development, it children playing from the kitchen; project. settled on Millgate Homes and CALA and the mix of external finishes Homes, selling land parcels to each. incorporates lots of golden Cotswold BRONZE The developers have worked stone, complementing neighbouring City & Country, Millgate, together to ensure their offerings are existing properties, and the local distinct from each other – aimed at a vernacular, very well. CALA Homes different group of buyers – but all sit This new partnership with Stroud King Edward VII Estate, comfortably alongside each other on District Council – providing the first Midhurst, West Sussex the estate. CALA and Millgate have new council homes to be built in over King Edward VII Hospital was built built detached family homes, while 30 years – has gone so well that it in 1901 and heralded as “one of the City & Country has completed the has already led to an agreement three finest buildings of the time”. first phase of the mammoth task of between the two partners to work Its magnificent Arts and Crafts restoring and converting the hospital together again on the next phase of architecture and Gertrude Jekyll buildings. This will be followed by new homes for the district, as the gardens fell in to disrepair when more new-build, and a thriving new council sets out to achieve its target the hospital closed, and by the community will enjoy a stunning of 150 new homes over five years. time City & Country made moves estate restored to its former glory. This is a testament to the great to acquire the site in 2009 it was in relationship that working on this a sorry state. BRONZE attractive development has forged. Plans to restore the estate Lovell, Stroud District received the support – after Council protracted negotiations – of Natural England, English Heritage, The Paddocks and Old Chichester District Council and Common Mews, the South Downs National Park. Minchinhampton, Planning permission, including Gloucestershire offsite affordable housing Lovell does this kind of project contributions of £800,000, was really well, as proved by its granted in 2011. consistent recognition by City & Country was the natural fit the judging panel over the to restore such an illustrious building, years, and this scheme in the
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GOLD London Square London Square Fulham, Fulham, SW6
This is a genuine legacy development, replacing a former light industrial estate on the two- acre site with a classic London square form comprising 40 townhouses and shared ownership apartments. In a 21st-century twist, the traditional four-storey terrace layout sits on a two-acre car park, freeing up the centre for a traffic-free communal garden and allowing each townhouse a private garden and terrace 500ft² of the first floor, while the The sense of place is set by the on the periphery. The gated second floor has two double external design, beginning with the underground garage has sufficient bedrooms and family bathroom, double arch that marked the parking for second cars or visitors with a further double bedroom entrance to the former estate, and access to a secure integral together with dressing room, en which, saved from the wrecking ball garage to each house. suite and balcony in the attic. by architect John Assael, now stands On the lower ground floor of the This excellent layout provides a guardian to the new square. While high-spec townhouses there is a fine balance between luxurious the proportions of the square and spacious kitchen/dining/family room living and convenience suited to the materials of the elevations with bi-fold doors to a walled private modern lifestyles. (stucco at ground floor, London garden. Marble stairs lead to the These houses are not cheap stock brick and dressed stone above, upper ground floor with a study and (priced from £3.6m) but for their with zinc-clad Mansard top storeys) drawing room with bi-fold doors to location, ambiance and practicality reflect the classical tradition, they an upper terrace and garden. The by comparison with traditional are also, with their clear glazing and master bedroom with dressing room properties they represent dark aluminium frames, and en suite occupies the whole outstanding value for money. unmistakeably modern.
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the norm. Biodiverse sustainable, explored new ways green roofs with PV solar of family living, were replicable panels that are specified and would be a benchmark for to generate more than the design and sustainability 100% of regulated aspirations of the new Whitehill primary energy are & Bordon green town. hidden behind parapets. The winner, Ash Sakula Architects, Internally, the homes designed homes that are flexibly are light-filled and arranged, low energy and highly apparently spacious insulated to meet Code for with ceiling heights of Sustainable Homes Level 5. Each is 2.7m for better entered through a large glass ‘porch’ daylighting and cross which doubles as an extra room, ventilation. Importantly, helping support the buildings’ there is generous Lifetime Homes credentials. storage space. Heating The homes have an unusually is by gas condensing high-ceilinged first-floor landing boiler while MVHR where the washing machine is maintains air quality. accommodated and a wooden The commitment to clothes drier on a pulley system monitoring with a real has been built in. An opening roof SILVER family, and the care and enthusiasm light and mechanical ventilation Hill and Cambridge with which this is being undertaken, are designed to eradicate any City Council is impressive and reassuring. potential condensation. Virido Concept Houses, Other eco features include locally Trumpington, Cambridge BRONZE sourced sweet chestnut shakes used Radian as part of the wall and roof finishes, Virido will comprise 208 new eco green roofs, triple-glazed windows, Exhibition Mews, Whitehill & homes with half for private sale PV solar panels, shower heat and the other half affordable Bordon, Hampshire recovery technology and habitats for homes managed by the council. The terrace of three affordable house martins and bats. The simple These two Code for Sustainable homes that forms Exhibition communal garden has been cleverly Homes Level 5+ houses have been Mews was built by Radian landscaped with sunken patio areas developed as a prototype for following an international design to define ‘private’ spaces. The judges this community. With the aim of competition. The brief sought look forward to the lessons learnt informing the design of the homes designs that were highly being carried forward. being built, they provide Hill and architects Pollard Thomas Edwards with the chance to test many of the green features that they are proposing for the whole development during a year-long monitoring programme. Designed to Lifetime Homes standards, the three-storey, four- bedroom houses are constructed using a prefabricated timber frame and have an impressive build quality with an exterior design that escapes
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sunny living areas area connecting directly through – including a light sliding glazed doors to the garden. and airy family However, the scale of these 3,000ft²- kitchen leading plus houses is such that the ground to a granite paved floor also provides a separate media patio, and a piano room, study and general-purpose nobile drawing suite that can be adapted as a self- room with contained apartment as needed. large outdoor The sense of spaciousness is terrace – but also further reinforced by the triple- overlooking the height void running the length of SILVER splendour of the landscaped formal the house and a cathedral ceilinged Millgate terraces that form the backbone of second floor that can be configured Sundridge Park, Bromley, the layout. as the owner wishes. Although Kent Throughout, specifications are of the four houses share a generic the highest quality, matching the layout, the amount of space allows The setting of this luxury excellence of the plans and Adam’s for multiple choices of how each development of 14 townhouses, harmonious and well-proportioned house is used. 25 apartments and two large buff brick and stucco elevations. Sustainability is embedded in houses is of such historical Purchasers of these £1.6m houses the design of this development and importance that it demands the will find nothing comparable. its response to its brownfield site – highest level of architectural once an engineering works but now response. Set in the Humphry BRONZE returned to a woodland glade – from Repton-designed landscapes Ultrabox triple glazing and the southerly and John Nash architecture of orientation of main rooms to solar The Woods, Kings Wood, Sundridge Park, the classical PV and thermal panels on the roof; elevations provided by the master near Leighton Buzzard, water is supplied by boreholes and of the genre, Robert Adam, are an Bedfordshire heating comes from biomass boilers. entirely appropriate response to The Woods is an exceptional Overall, these homes have achieved the context. development: a collection of four a Code Level 5 and a Lifetime Homes Approached along a half-mile uncompromisingly modern, large certification. secluded driveway between the luxury houses set in a clearing This development by Ultrabox park’s two golf courses, the parallel in ancient woodland, it also and architects Scott Brownrigg is a classical terraces, book-ended by demonstrates unusually high levels tribute to the commitment to the two Georgian-styled villas, present of sustainability. highest standards of design for a an imposing and unique sense Accessed by a private half-mile sustainable future. of place, and one in which the driveway, each home is screened privacy and quality of the location not by fences but by landscaped create an extraordinary sense of grassed mounds. The elevations of wellbeing. The classical tree-lined cedar vertical boarding with zinc street formed by the terrace of cladding to the upper storeys apartments on the north side and together with the use of double the townhouses on the south car ports rather than garages are reflects the gracious architecture further departures from the visual and scale of a typical regency language of suburbia. Internally, London street. But the pièce de the uncompromisingly modernist résistance of this development is architecture is continued by the the south-facing rear aspect of the open-plan concept linking inside and townhouses, providing not only out – the large living/dining/kitchen
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sunny living areas area connecting directly through – including a light sliding glazed doors to the garden. and airy family However, the scale of these 3,000ft²- kitchen leading plus houses is such that the ground to a granite paved floor also provides a separate media patio, and a piano room, study and general-purpose nobile drawing suite that can be adapted as a self- room with contained apartment as needed. large outdoor The sense of spaciousness is terrace – but also further reinforced by the triple- overlooking the height void running the length of SILVER splendour of the landscaped formal the house and a cathedral ceilinged Millgate terraces that form the backbone of second floor that can be configured Sundridge Park, Bromley, the layout. as the owner wishes. Although Kent Throughout, specifications are of the four houses share a generic the highest quality, matching the layout, the amount of space allows The setting of this luxury excellence of the plans and Adam’s for multiple choices of how each development of 14 townhouses, harmonious and well-proportioned house is used. 25 apartments and two large buff brick and stucco elevations. Sustainability is embedded in houses is of such historical Purchasers of these £1.6m houses the design of this development and importance that it demands the will find nothing comparable. its response to its brownfield site – highest level of architectural once an engineering works but now response. Set in the Humphry BRONZE returned to a woodland glade – from Repton-designed landscapes Ultrabox triple glazing and the southerly and John Nash architecture of orientation of main rooms to solar The Woods, Kings Wood, Sundridge Park, the classical PV and thermal panels on the roof; elevations provided by the master near Leighton Buzzard, water is supplied by boreholes and of the genre, Robert Adam, are an Bedfordshire heating comes from biomass boilers. entirely appropriate response to The Woods is an exceptional Overall, these homes have achieved the context. development: a collection of four a Code Level 5 and a Lifetime Homes Approached along a half-mile uncompromisingly modern, large certification. secluded driveway between the luxury houses set in a clearing This development by Ultrabox park’s two golf courses, the parallel in ancient woodland, it also and architects Scott Brownrigg is a classical terraces, book-ended by demonstrates unusually high levels tribute to the commitment to the two Georgian-styled villas, present of sustainability. highest standards of design for a an imposing and unique sense Accessed by a private half-mile sustainable future. of place, and one in which the driveway, each home is screened privacy and quality of the location not by fences but by landscaped create an extraordinary sense of grassed mounds. The elevations of wellbeing. The classical tree-lined cedar vertical boarding with zinc street formed by the terrace of cladding to the upper storeys apartments on the north side and together with the use of double the townhouses on the south car ports rather than garages are reflects the gracious architecture further departures from the visual and scale of a typical regency language of suburbia. Internally, London street. But the pièce de the uncompromisingly modernist résistance of this development is architecture is continued by the the south-facing rear aspect of the open-plan concept linking inside and townhouses, providing not only out – the large living/dining/kitchen
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as 27 rental properties. But next to the development is The Open Market – a covered market of stalls, an eclectic mix of food outlets, workshops and arts and crafts – very much local trader territory. It is a market as a social enterprise – no antiseptic add-on for planning purposes, but a clear community benefit, creating jobs and a social meeting place. The scheme has made a very tangible contribution to the regeneration of this part of windows offering views over the the East Sussex town, both in SILVER landscaped grounds and spacious terms of residential and retail Inland Homes bedrooms with en suite facilities offering – new homes, new jobs among the highlights. and a new vitality to the area. The Drayton Garden Village, Perhaps most impressive is the £13m project was very much a West Drayton, London, UB7 sustainable vision of Drayton community-led partnership. This vibrant 779-home Garden Village, from its design Hyde worked closely with local development on a site formerly as a leafy neighbourhood with residents and the local business housing RAF West Drayton significant outdoor space, to its low community, including a three-day has succeeded in creating a carbon strategy and district heat public consultation, which led to sustainable mixed-use network, where domestic hot changes to building heights, community on what was water and heating is provided materials and road layouts. previously a tranche of derelict through an onsite energy centre as “The street furniture recreates brownfield land. part of an innovative partnership the feel of an outside living room” Drayton Garden Village includes with E.ON Sustainable Energy. – the marketing is zany, but it is everything from apartments also spot on. to five-bedroom houses, and BRONZE succeeds in its aim to be a ‘lifetime Hyde New Homes neighbourhood’, with its range of The Barrows, Brighton, homes matched by the tenures on offer, which include shared East Sussex ownership, affordable rent and The first thing that strikes you private rent. The Help to Buy about The Barrows development scheme has also been very is the zany marketing, very successful here in getting first-time fitting for the bohemian, buyers on the ladder. free-spirited reputation of its In addition to a series of Brighton location. commercial units and a spacious Mixed use can mean many village hall, which can be hired things: usually any conventional by residents, there is also an 80- combination of residential, bedroom residential care home at commercial, retail and leisure. the development. Drayton Village The Barrows is a scheme of Care Centre, part of the Gold Care 87 apartments, built to high Homes Group, is a carefully sustainability standards, for sale considered project, with large through shared ownership, as well
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GOLD Igloo Four Hundred Caledonian Road, London, N1
Four Hundred Caledonian Road embraces sustainability with little apparent compromise, despite the constraints of a difficult site: a former light industrial workshop adjoining Caledonian Road & Barnsbury station. The mixed-use scheme blends past and present around two intimate courtyards. Comprising 25 one-, two- and three-bedroom homes and three commercial studios, the integration of new build with the renovation of a Victorian townhouse and the conversion of a stable block is seamless. Meeting Lifetime Homes standards and Code for Sustainable Homes Level 4, the scheme uses fabric-first principles to achieve 40% higher performance than Building Regulations while attaining a full outstanding 12/12 rating against the Building for Life 12 assessment criteria. Both externally and internally the specification and quality of finish is high. Green roofs provide biodiversity and accommodate solar PV while rainwater harvesting reduces the use of potable water. Secure cycle storage is available for residents and balconies reduce solar gain but ensure good daylighting. Neighbourhood and community have not been forgotten. The development has helped regenerate this part of the ‘Cally Road’ and local businesses supplied metalwork and joinery elements. Igloo must be applauded for a scheme that is sustainable, attractive and highly liveable.
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community can use some facilities too and there are guest rooms available for overnight visitors. The development contains spacious, well-designed properties, with apartments, duplexes and cottages on offer. Larger units are in the pipeline thanks to downsizers requesting larger lock-up-and-leave units. The design of apartments replicates a street scene with residents’ own door numbers. Properties all have outdoor areas, plenty of storage, and friendly features such as wet rooms, high level sockets, low temperature radiators and non-slip floors with Jack and Jill doors to wet rooms/bathrooms in case GOLD a minibus also transports residents of accidents. BEN to local amenities. Overall this is an incredibly well- Lynwood Village, Organised activities, such as a designed community with a great Sunninghill, Berkshire cinema club and evening events, add team on hand to help its ageing Owned and operated by to the vibrant, buzzy atmosphere. population thoroughly enjoy automotive industry charity There is a full-time restaurant, retirement. BEN has fully considered BEN, Lynwood Village and brasserie and bar onsite with a the person and the activities that its care centre, set within 40% residents’ discount plus a promote wellbeing, making it a 20 acres of woodland on the private dining facility. The outside deserved winner. outskirts of Ascot, are run on a not-for-profit basis. The onsite 24/7 care team combined with its design, accessibility and support systems help make Lynwood Village an attractive retirement destination. Tailored care packages are available, with ongoing health and wellbeing assessments. Residents can buy here and have the peace of mind of having access to a respite centre for short-term convalescence and a state-of-the-art care centre if needed at any time in the future. There is a shop onsite plus facilities including a health club with swimming and hydrotherapy pools, fitness suite, a hairdresser, a spa, treatment rooms, a library, snooker, bowls and croquet, and a village hall;
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in the lifts and sturdy grab rails in the corridors designed to look like classic dado rails. In addition, each floor features a different coloured carpet, making it easy for residents to spot that they are on the right floor. However, it is the facilities and amenities on offer at Adlington House that is the big draw. A communal lounge, subsidised restaurant, hairdressers, spa room SILVER ecological credentials, with high and an activities room are open daily, Renaissance Villages and thermal efficiency standards while the private dining room can be Helical Bar throughout and sustainability a key booked in advance if residents wish Durrants Village, Faygate, virtue of the village. There is plenty to entertain a large party. There is West Sussex of storage space in the homes and also a guest suite available for visiting important design touches such as family and friends, which can be The key to any large-scale level thresholds, lowered electrical booked for a very reasonable cost. retirement community is not to appliances and lower window An onsite nurse is available look like a large-scale retirement sills to take advantage of the 24 hours a day, and all of the community and this is just one countryside views. apartments have an emergency reason Durrants Village near call system. Parking is onsite, Horsham in West Sussex succeeds. BRONZE while a minibus is available to take There is an eclectic mix of Adlington residents into town if they were cottages and apartments among the unable to make the walk. The ground Adlington House, 154 properties, set in 30 acres of floor also features a mobility scooter private parkland with a nice ebb and Portishead, Bristol charging room, and the wheelie flow to the streetscape. Adlington House, located in the bins have an innovative pully system The centrepiece of the village coastal town of Portishead, just so that residents can still take is the clubhouse, an upfront a short drive from Bristol, is a their own rubbish out even if they commitment by developers purpose-built apartment are in a wheelchair. Renaissance Villages and Helical development that has been Adlington House has done a fine Bar to the wellbeing, both social created specifically for the job to support independent living and medical, of the residents. The retirement market. while simultaneously encouraging clubhouse has a pool, fitness centre, The scheme offers a range of social interaction. library, games room and restaurant, one-, two- and three-bedroom as well as a nurse and doctor’s units, rather unusual in itself for a surgery and a guest suite for retirement development. The residents’ friends and family to stay. apartments themselves are spacious The residents are empowered to and well appointed, and have very run events and services themselves, well-thought-out storage including such as the bar – a major attraction utility rooms. All properties have and not just because of its highly a balcony or private patio area, subsidised prices. You won’t find a and the communal grounds are cheaper beer in Sussex. There is also landscaped to a very high standard. a village shop being built. Particular attention has been paid The quality of finish of the to the communal areas, with all doors properties is excellent, as are their wide enough for a wheelchair, seats
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GOLD aesthetic, which provides a visual Hill identity and sense of place, the The Scene, Walthamstow, variously coloured weatherboard London, E17 elevations distinguishing it from more mundane brick developments. The Scene not only provides However, the merits of Holborough 121 new homes in the centre of Lakes are far more than skin deep. Walthamstow, but regenerates The architect, Stefan Zins the site of a demolished shopping Associates, has created a wide centre with a mixed-use range of well-designed houses and development based on leisure constantly interesting streetscapes retailing and the provision of a and vistas, from the impressive cinema, the borough being one wedded the lively public elements entrance boulevard flanked by four- of only two in London without and the calm required of family storey New England-influenced this facility. The cinema, flanked housing, but the achievement of this apartments, to the individual villas by restaurants and shops, is development is shared by the whole and townhouses that overlook the the centrepiece of this vibrant team: Hill, Waltham Forest Council, central village green and the feature development, and forms a and Islington & Shoreditch Housing lakes that give the development its podium on which the housing sits, Association. It merits gold, not name. These communal landscape surrounding a first floor communal because it is intrinsically higher in features, linked by trim trails, make garden on the roof of the cinema. quality than the others in this this much more than simply a The external four-storey category, but for the outstanding housing development: this is a elevations are highly articulated, impact that this regeneration of community, with its own nursery, with projecting balconies and metal- this brownfield site has made to the primary school, gym and clad recessed penthouses on one local environment. watersports centre. side and gentle wave forms with Over the 10 years of its balconies recessed from the busy SILVER development, Holborough Lakes road on the other. Above the Berkeley Homes has become an entity, with its own ground-floor shops, elevations are M&S foodstore and dedicated bus Holborough Lakes, clad in iridescent glazed brick, with service linking it with Snodland, two decorative metal balconies laser cut Snodland, Kent miles away, with its HS1 link to St with patterns taken from the designs Holborough Lakes is a breath of Pancras. Berkeley, in purchasing this of William Morris, a native of the fresh air – a new community of site without even the benefit of borough. The elevated position over 1,000 new houses (with 25% planning permission, took a huge of the development provides affordable housing pepper-potted risk, but its boldness has not only outstanding panoramic views of throughout the development), been vindicated, but also serves as central London to the south and sited beyond the green belt in a an exemplar for development on and there is a good social mix in the former Blue Circle quarry. Remedial beyond the green belt. housing surrounding the central works to the 72-acre site were communal garden, with two-storey necessarily extensive and affordable housing, affordable and expensive and included clearing shared ownership flats, and five- the industrial elements on the site, storey private ownership flats. cleaning the lake, stabilising and This development is an exemplar draining the site and its surrounds, of town centre regeneration, relocating the existing fauna and providing a landmark building establishing new planting. and enhanced public space. The Much of the initial attraction architect, Justin Laskin of Pollard of this development lies in its Thomas Edwards, has ingeniously predominant New England
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SILVER and attractive communal garden Catalyst by Design that has been warmly welcomed Portobello Square, Ladbroke by the local community. Grove, London, W10 The first thing that strikes visitors is the powerful and attractive Portobello Square is a landmark presence of the new, single, regeneration project, in its first horseshoe-shaped, five-storey phase of 324 new homes, 150 of building on the corner of Goldstone which have been made available Crescent and Old Shoreham Road for private sale, replacing the 538 and the confident handling of the flats in the worn out 1960s three step changes as it follows the Wornington Green estate. The rising slope of the latter. The decision contrast between the single- to site all of the parking beneath tenancy deck block architecture of the block has allowed for large the past and the genuinely mixed- £1.2m), have views of The Shard private gardens for ground-floor tenure community of the new to the south and the Wembley apartments and a beautifully development, where new private arch to the north, while many of designed communal garden by owners have joined existing the other homes will look across Nicholas Dexter that incorporates a residents, is striking, as is the a newly created park. This high dedicated wildlife corridor and a sett physical difference between the quality development by Catalyst for the resident badger. former six-storey linked blocks is an exemplar of large-scale The quiet modernist aesthetics of and the new mix of four-storey urban regeneration. the building, while contextual in the apartments, townhouses and use of the local Hurstwood Multi mews homes. BRONZE brick and referencing the projecting The contrast between the Hyde New Homes bays of the surrounding villas, are brutalist concrete horizontally uncompromising in the use of steel, One Hove Park, Hove, banded red brick former deck blocks, plate glass, and, on the recessed and the urbane elevations of the new East Sussex penthouse top storey, zinc cladding. London stock brick town houses with One Hove Park comprises 71 This is a project that works on their vertical emphasis could not be apartments (41 for private sale every level. Every design decision, more marked: the former being and 30 affordable), located every finish, every specification social housing writ large with no on a site that had lain derelict seems just right. Hyde New Homes private outdoor space or territory; for many years, ultimately is to be congratulated for achieving the latter, designed with real flair becoming a notorious squat. such a modest tour de force. by architects PRP, epitomising Despite a consensus that the individual territory, emphasised by site represented a blight on the the generous private gardens to neighbourhood, there were the houses and duplexes and the strongly expressed local concerns outdoor space of the individual about conservation and worries balconies to the flats. about overdevelopment of the site. Both the houses and apartments However, at the third attempt, the are light and airy and with high- proposals, by the newly appointed quality finishes. There is a degree of Yelo Architects, for a new building, overlooking in consequence of the a green corridor between the two necessarily high density, but this adjacent parks, and fully screened does not detract from the overall car parking provision were attractiveness of these new homes, approved. The result of this and, exceptionally, the three- extensive consultation has been a bedroom penthouses (a snip at highly successful landmark building
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GOLD trips around the world: for example, Portugal; and the dining room table Newcourt Residential the hand-blown chandelier, which came from Texas. However, and very Alderbrook House, stretches to more than 7m, came surprisingly, the cost was less than Weybridge, Surrey from Paris; the furniture, including 1% of the sales price. For this reason, the bathroom cabinets and the 11m Newcourt should give their designer By a whisker, gold had to go curved sofa were specially made in a ‘real’ gold star. to Newcourt Residential for Alderbook House, located in a quiet road close to the town centre with a garden that runs down the River Wey and a private mooring on to a peaceful section of the river. The theme of the house is reminiscent of a New York apartment, with clever layering of wallpaper, mirrors and lights, but this is combined with the softness of an English country house in a superb location close to London with river views, fully exploited and capitalised throughout in the interior design. The company employs a very talented in-house designer who sourced all the furniture from various
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out at its latest London scheme and used the cartouches from its neighbour, London landmark Tower Bridge, to create a distinctive identity for the development – and what an identity. The elegant art deco glamour with bespoke parquet floors and burnished bronze lifts with hand- made panels inlaid with bronze, created in Nottingham and a nod to traditional craftsmanship. Another very special touch is the book matched marble floor leading into the apartments; the design is mirrored on the ceiling and a panelled wall creates a vision of opulence. The theme is carried through into the bathrooms – the wooden laminated bath is SILVER BRONZE especially amazing. As well as the CALA Homes Berkeley Homes interior design of the apartments, Hurlingham House, One Tower Bridge, there is incredible attention to Brockenhurst Road, Ascot, London, SE1 detail in the communal areas. Berkshire It would be so easy for Berkeley Once again, Berkeley Homes has Homes to rest on its many laurels raised the bar on giving a This home oozes in style and but it has really pushed the boat development the wow factor. glamour and in terms of the exterior is definitely the best house out of the three winners. Internally, the house gave the interior designer scope to create a scheme that worked in harmony with the space. Silver, gold and bronze colour palate is used in the entertaining rooms, which is contrasted with a monochrome theme using checks and stripes for the large kitchen and family area. The marble staircase is a striking feature leading up to the amazing master bedroom suite with its sitting room and masses of cupboard space. The interior designer has done a fabulous job of creating a home, which is restful and luxurious.
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GOLD providing real and individual spatial and technical innovations, Regal Homes personality to each home. This is a the project also shows a respectful Banyan Wharf, Islington, humane and ennobling decision concern for its context. It marries London, N1 and demonstrates a commitment itself to the neighbouring street to providing value that will be frontage with a masonry screen Banyan Wharf demonstrates a measured by residents in more than that acts at an urban scale – as a genuine effort to use design, not just square feet. piece of placemaking ‘outside’ just execution, to bring value to its While relentlessly exploiting the that also enhances the private site and so immediately stood out opportunities provided by its own terraces ‘inside’. among the entries. The project makes a clear and conscious attempt to explore the opportunities provided by ongoing technical innovations in building technology – with its dramatic and large-scale use of a cross-laminated timber structure. In so doing it stakes its claim to make a significant contribution to the story of architecture and homebuilding in the UK. Its success is based on more than just technical innovations however, as the building provides a rich and varied spatial experience to residents. Its overall form is organised around a twisted cruciform plan, which brings natural light deep into the site, enabling the creation of double or triple aspect apartments with unique terraces –
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about repair – replacing a very unlovely 1970s’ apartment building that was previously on the site. That said, the designer’s decision to use a version of the neighbouring Georgian architecture – rather than a more obviously contemporary approach – shows an admirable level of confidence and is arguably innovative of itself. The new buildings are a significant and attractive enhancement of the conservation area. SILVER effective counterpoint to the white Most importantly, the historic Bernard Construction UK infill areas. approach to materials and detailing The Warren Apartments, Overall, the exterior design is demands a substantial commitment Tulse Hill, London, SE27 an intelligent blend of old and to craftsmanship throughout new, small scale and large scale, construction, which has been The Warren Apartments are a good which creates a refreshing and delivered upon. It must also be example of the kind of small-scale memorable design. noted that this has to be balanced developments that have become with the modern demands of rarer over the last decade but BRONZE Building Regulations, which were which should be being encouraged Octagon never imposed upon the Georgians. across the country. They have While very much at the top end of The Grove Villas, Highgate, obviously been designed with great the market, The Grove Villas affection and consideration using London, N6 demonstrate that very high-end a few simple devices to create a The design of The Grove Villas, developments can make a really handsome and coherent whole. two five-bedroom semi-detached beneficial contribution to their The design strikes an enviable townhouses in Highgate, is not neighbourhood while also being balance between the intimate obviously about innovation, it is lovely homes, not just bank vaults. private nature of domestic space and the more dramatic scale of the railway line next to which the apartments are situated. Crittall windows hint at an industrial feel and heritage while also allowing generous amounts of light into each home. Similarly, the extensive use of glazed bricks bring to mind the lightwells of Victorian-era mansion blocks and civic buildings, which resonates with the Victorian railway heritage of the project’s trackside location. The exterior palette is monochromatic with the rich dark tone of the glazed bricks being an
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GOLD The scheme has been designed to gardens the owners may have left Beechcroft Developments maximise the views from the new behind when downsizing from their Orchard Gardens, homes of the church and South former homes and are sympathetic Storrington, West Sussex Downs: parking and garages are to the area’s abundant wildlife and placed discreetly, tucked out of site, mature trees. The development at Orchard giving the impression that the An eloquent scheme sensitively Gardens has been carefully and development is car free. The designed and executed within a sensitively designed on the site materials combine golden gravel historic setting and so well of the orchard of the former St paths, timber fences and trellis, and maintained. Joseph’s Abbey. The scheme is characteristic located in a quiet lane opposite the ironmongery. parish church, a short level walk The planting from the shops and services on design is soft offer in Storrington. and pleasing and The over-55s development yet vibrant with comprises 25 two- and three- its attractive mix bedroom houses and apartments, of shrubs and set within attractive communal herbaceous gardens, with many also benefiting plants, with from their own private garden, all climbers that deck beautifully maintained by the the walls and development’s estate manager. trellises. The skilful The judges were impressed by mix of interest, the elegant simplicity of the scheme colour, texture, and how the new dwellings sit movement and comfortably within the setting, scent is a delight. complementing the vernacular The gardens architecture and merging seamlessly are planted in a into the historic fabric of the similar way to neighbouring streetscape. the established
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residents to enjoy. boundary is an area of land Avenue tree planting designated as a Biological Heritage gives structure, Site and neighbouring streams. interest and a focus, An existing track, Lucas Lane East, and the hedges and runs across the site. planting areas create an The scheme has been carefully attractive backcloth by designed to take account of utilising predominantly the existing mature trees native species. and hedgerows, ponds and Exteriors are a mix of watercourses, footpaths traditional and colonial and Biological Heritage Site, styles, both of which integrating them into the design sit comfortably in the within green linking corridors. landscape. The hard There will be “substantial new surface materials include indigenous planting” alongside the tarmac and block paving, laurel hedgerow surrounding the which are imaginatively existing pond. used and mixed to vary A great deal of research had been the character of areas. carried out in order to plan and These are combined with design the scheme so that it will SILVER thoughtfully designed timber picket complement the surrounding town Countryside Properties fences and bin stores, while the use and landscape, and this deserves St Irvyne’s, Wickhurst Green, of both garden walls and fences give recognition and acknowledgement. Horsham, West Sussex privacy and interest. However, the judges felt, on the With St Irvyne’s, Countryside has basis of the areas implemented, that The landscape vision of Wickhurst successfully recreated the village there was more scope to reinforce Green – which will eventually environment, complete with a sense the structure of the scheme and its provide 963 homes, a new primary of tranquillity and calm. landscape in accordance with the school, a neighbourhood centre drawings and through the increased and facilities, and formal and BRONZE use of native planting and the informal open spaces – has three Redrow quality, size and density of plant core elements: to retain and material used to date. Hopefully this Lucas Green, Whittle-le- enhance the existing vegetation will become more apparent as the and biodiversity; to use the Woods, Chorley, Lancashire scheme progresses. established flora and fauna water Lucas Green composes networks to create an immediate 135 dwellings and mature character; and to provide associated open space play and recreation facilities. on the land to the north At St Irvyne’s, a small part of this and west of Lucas Lane new development, the architecture in Whittle-le-Woods. and landscape combine to create an The site is surrounded attractive and pleasantly relaxing by a combination of atmosphere. farmstead and historic This part of Wickhurst Green buildings, early- to mid- incorporates one of the balancing 1900s and modern ponds required as part of the SuDS housing developments scheme, which has been planted with predominantly with native plants to provide a agricultural land to the habitat for wildlife and for the east. On the eastern
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John Assael design standards. Rory and his widely published and has won John is chairman team are responsible for the numerous awards – most and co-founder of sustainability consultancy on recently, Pear Tree House won award-winning Assael some of the UK’s highest profile a RIBA London award this year Architecture. John specialises in housing projects. He represents and was shortlisted for the residentially led mixed-use HTA at conferences regularly and Stephen Lawrence Prize. projects, with a particular interest is on the Advisory Board of the Jake also has extensive in the regeneration of urban Active House Alliance. development experience, and brownfield sites and conservation runs a parallel development of listed and historic buildings. Bridget Cordy company that builds high-quality He has been a judge for the With over 20 years’ residential and mixed-use RIBA Regional Awards, experience of selling schemes, based on a simple WhatHouse? Awards and and marketing strategy of creating value WAN Awards and continues to property, Bridget has worked through design quality. search for and reward examples alongside many of the country’s of good design, year-on-year. top developers. A graduate of the Katharine Gillings His other passions lie in Chartered Institute of Marketing, Katharine is principal being an exemplar employer, her career started as a trainee of cHOROS promoting the profession and negotiator in Surrey followed by Landscape Architects. supporting the future generation the roller-coaster markets of Started in 1983, her early work of architects. John is a nationally London’s Docklands during the was grounded in mixed-use elected member of the RIBA late 1980s, where she got the schemes and sheltered Council and the ARB, the taste for new homes. This led accommodation for housing profession’s regulator, and a her to gain a broad experience associations, private clients and Trustee of the Architects in new homes agency before developers, broadening to new Benevolent Society. joining the developer side of town/urban masterplans in the business. After six years at Bahrain and Jordan, where she Rory Bergin director level with Charles Church presented her work to the then Rory’s role is to and then Centex, Bridget is crown prince. Today, cHOROS develop excellence now a freelance property writer encompasses a multidisciplinary in sustainable and and a regular columnist for environmental team that innovative design, enabling Show House magazine. includes landscape architects, multidisciplinary design forestry, and management consultancy HTA to achieve its Jake Edgley consultants. cHOROS provides objective of leading the field in Jake founded Edgley consultancy services for a wide sustainable placemaking. He Design in 2004 – an range of clients and has won has an impact on many of architecture and several awards in the UK. HTA’s projects, overseeing the development practice based in cHOROS has developed skills practice’s implementation of Clerkenwell, and focused on craft in urban land regeneration, sustainable design and the use of and innovation in architecture. working closely with land agents appropriate sustainability tools. The practice has built many and stakeholders to instigate He leads a team of sustainability contemporary private houses, opportunities to make the most consultants advising clients residential and mixed-use of our cities and towns. Schemes and certifying projects in the schemes, mostly in and around include hard landscape design commonly used sustainable London. The practice has been and masterplans to encourage
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wildlife in an urban environment central London. He has been historic buildings. From 2010 and to create an enjoyable involved with housing design until September 2015 he was setting in which to live and work throughout his career and has chair of The Society for the in harmony. cHOROS also been awarded numerous RIBA, Protection of Ancient Buildings specialises in historic/sensitive Civic Trust and local awards (SPAB). The Society, founded in sites; for example, the company and commendations for his 1877 by William Morris, is the completed a masterplan for housing work. His practice largest, oldest and most Tesco in relation to a sustainable, specialises in all aspects of technically expert national zero-carbon scheme on a rural housing and undertakes projects amenity society in the UK. 81-hectare historic estate. for housing associations, The SPAB has a clear set of volume housebuilders, smaller principles concerning the Simon Graham developers as well as retirement conservation and repair of Simon is director of housing specialists. Stanley is historic buildings, and seeks Blue Sky, a freelance formerly an assessor for the to encourage excellence in housing consultancy Civic Trust and now a design new design to enrich and established in 1995. He has assessor for Hertfordshire complement the historic worked in the residential County Council. environment. property industry for 25 years, including holding senior sales, Kate Hamilton Roger Hunt marketing communications and Kate is a freelance An award-winning corporate strategy posts with property journalist writer and blogger, housing associations and a and magazine editor Roger is an expert private development company. who has written for Show House, on sustainability, building Simon specialises in research, Homes Overseas, International materials and construction. marketing and public affairs Construction, BuyAssociation, A long-standing Show House projects. His clients include easyJet magazine, Inside ATM contributor, he is also the many of the largest housing and The Mail on Sunday. She has co-author of Old House associations in the country, a passion for property, having Handbook and the companion trade bodies and a range of bought and renovated five homes volume Old House Eco public and private sector in London until she finally settled Handbook – A practical guide organisations. He is also a with her family in north Wales. to retrofitting for energy trained journalist and has She now works with her efficiency and sustainability. written a monthly column husband renovating property for Both are in association with for Show House since 1995, sale and has a small buy-to-let the Society for the Protection focusing on government policy, portfolio. Kate has been judging of Ancient Buildings. His the housing market and social for the What House? Awards for other books include Rural housing issues. the past 10 years. Britain: Then & Now. Roger is currently writing a book Stanley Haines David Heath commissioned by the RIBA on Stanley studied David is a new design for old buildings. architecture at conservation He blogs on building-related the Welsh School, architect with issues at www.huntwriter.com Cardiff, qualifying in 1977, and is wide-ranging experience of and tweets @huntwriter. He now senior partner of Haines building repairs and maintenance lectures regularly on retrofit and Phillips Architects based in and of the adaptive reuse of old buildings.
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Cheryl Markosky George Oldham provided articles and copy for Cheryl has George is a graduate numerous property companies contributed to the of Manchester and websites in the UK and property pages of University where he overseas, both in the consumer a number of publications for was awarded the Manchester and business-to-business the past 15 years, including Society of Architects Student sectors. The Sunday Times, Daily and Medal. He enjoyed a 25-year Sunday Telegraph, Country Life, career in the public sector, Michael Phare Mail on Sunday, Daily Mail, becoming city architect of Michael is principal of Financial Times, Sunday Express Newcastle upon Tyne, winning OPUS Architecture and Show House. She also several national design, energy and Design, which writes for London-based and conservation awards. In he formed 25 years ago. He magazines MoveTo London and 1989, he became chief architect specialises in high-quality MoveTo Town & Country. Cheryl for Barratt Developments, residential projects, working has ghostwritten two books later setting up Oldham closely with developers and with Channel 4’s Location, Associates, combining practice individual clients on a wide Location, Location presenter with teaching design at the range of projects, from Phil Spencer. She also does a universities of Newcastle and small studios to substantial great deal of print and digital Humberside. On accepting the country houses. His work has corporate work for agents post of degree programme been regularly featured in and developers. director of professional practice national property magazines, at Newcastle, he became a full- including Homebuilding & Stephen Maunder time academic before returning Renovating. In addition to Stephen is an online to practice in 2003. His main practising as an architect, property writer interest, apart from serving on Michael is a director of a for Which? having RIBA Council, is golf course property investment and previously spent nearly design, having written two development company. two years as assistant editor books on the subject. of WhatHouse? During his George Sell time at WhatHouse? his brief Keith Osborne George is a freelance expanded from managing Keith is the editor journalist, editor and estate agency content on of WhatHouse?, copywriter with more the whathouse.com website in charge of than a decade’s experience of to contributing to the the editorial content for covering the UK residential various print publications whathouse.com as well as property market for consumer and regularly reviewing new- WhatHouse? regional and local and business-to-business build developments. With a newspapers. With a background publications. George is a former background in academic in finance, he has been involved editor of both WhatHouse? and research, Stephen previously in the new homes industry for Show House and remains a worked at Sky News and has over 14 years, contributing to regular contributor to Show written about a range of topics the website, Show House and House. He writes about UK and from education to sport for Homes Overseas magazine over overseas property for a wide BBC News and The Huffington that time, and was formerly on range of magazines, newspapers Post UK. the judging panel for the Homes and websites. Overseas Awards. He has also
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Tricia Topping International Property Design London before joining EPR Tricia has over Award for the best new Architects. His projects range two decades of residential development and the from bespoke, one-off houses to property business Design & Architecture awards large, mixed-use developments and marketing experience. from Design et al. Projects range and inner city urban initiatives. Tricia is the founder of Carlyle from extensions, to large-scale Consultants, a communications refurbishments and to new build Matt White consultancy focusing on luxury and refurbishments of country Matt established products, prime London houses in the UK and abroad. MATT Architecture and international property in 2012. The studio destinations, with clients in all Ginetta Vedrickas is based in Leicester Square sectors. Carlyle Consultants Ginetta is an award- and enjoys a London-focused advises its clients using strategic winning property reputation for designing award- communication methods journalist who has winning projects that unlock the and traditional as well as written for many titles in the potential of the most complex modern marketing tools to UK and overseas including The and constrained sites – with position them at the heart Times, Telegraph, Independent, intelligent, generous and, of their target audience. London Evening Standard and frankly, opportunistic Tricia also created her blog, Metro. A WhatHouse? judge for architecture. Current projects Luxury Topping, through her several years, Ginetta is Show include one-off houses in the love of property, interior design, House magazine’s marketing and UK and Europe, the regeneration jewellery, art and fashion. media columnist, as well as a of Walker’s Court in Soho – Luxury Topping focuses on ‘The regular feature writer on other incorporating the old Raymond Business of Luxury’ and shines topics for housebuilding’s Revuebar and Madame JoJo’s – the spotlight on the trends and leading trade title and is a former and Ilona Rose House, the the people who work to create presenter of the BBC1 property 300,000ft² redevelopment of the wonderful objects that we can series Staying Put. old Foyles bookshop site on admire, desire and buy. Charing Cross Road (with Soda). Pascal Wensink Matt’s residential experience Carolyn Trevor Pascal, director of includes multi-unit central Carolyn is director of EPR Architects, London schemes for Candy & Trevor Lahiff studied architecture Candy as well as his own house, Architects alongside at Kingston Polytechnic and No.23, which won the Daily her husband Patrick. Their South Bank University with a Telegraph’s ‘Residential Design’ practice, founded in 1995, six-month placement at Delft and ‘Innovative Home’ awards specialises in one-off, high-end Technical University in the in 2013. residential projects for both Netherlands. While studying, private clients and developers. he joined a design studio in the TLA’s bespoke houses and East End of London, converting interiors are informed and industrial and warehouse stylish, attributed to Carolyn’s buildings into live/work units, extensive experience working bars and restaurants. Pascal then as both architect and interior became a freelance architect, designer. The studio has converting and adapting private previously won the UK & homes in and around north
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We are very proud to be sponsoring Beko – each with its own identity, innovation the WhatHouse? Awards and wish all and warranties. award winners our congratulations. We are able to deliver our proposition to Supporting residential developers is incredibly satisfy appliance needs for all types of residential important to Beko plc – this growing sector development projects. We win awards for our is a major focus for us, which is why we are energy-efficient factories and work closely with extremely pleased to be part of this event that the Energy Saving Trust to verify our products recognises the talent in the industry. and position ourselves as champions in this area. We continuously carry out research to Grundig, Blomberg, Leisure and Beko thoroughly understand the needs of both appliances offer state-of-the art technology, consumers and residential developers to ensure including everything from time-saving features we offer a dedicated service that sets us apart such as our Beko Wash & Wear Cycle that washes from the competition. We continue to develop and dries clothes in just one hour, to our Grundig and launch appliances that are energy efficient GEBM34001, one of the market’s most silent and equipped with innovative and useful ovens, ideal for open-plan kitchens. technologies. When it comes to selecting As part of the Appliance Plus proposition we appliances for a kitchen, we offer our dedicated provide a dedicated service from purchase service and a complete product range, across a through to aftersales. We offer a range of two-, variety of brands, catering to every home. three- and five-year warranties as standard, To reflect our genuine commitment to this ensuring residential developers can leave a industry, we have developed a proposition under property with the peace of mind that they the name of Appliance Plus. This represents our have delivered the best possible quality and exclusive dedicated service, our sustainable aftercare for the buyer. approach, our range and availability of quality Best of luck and we look forward to seeing products. As part of this proposition we have four you on the day. distinct brands – Grundig, Blomberg, Leisure and Murat Sapci , head of built-in and leisure
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Over the past 20 years, Alexander only fundamental to the heritage of James has developed a reputation Alexander James but also to the success of for excellence in delivering award- this exciting industry that we all work within. winning interior and architectural design Recognising and rewarding excellence is the services to private clients, property driving force behind the future success of developers, and hotel groups both in the UK both The Alexander James Group and the and around the world. industry as a whole. This is why we believe We provide a seamless and tailored service that the WhatHouse? Awards are among to ensure every detail and eventuality is the most highly regarded in the UK considered. From concept to completion, our housebuilding industry. dedicated and personalised service, together At Alexander James, design and innovation with uncompromisingly high standards, are at the heart of everything we do, and ensures that our clients realise the full potential we are proud to continue our support of the of every project undertaken. WhatHouse? Awards in 2015. Driving new design and innovation is not Robert Walker, managing director
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At a time when housing supply is the As the economy has improved, we have most pressing constraint on the seen a great deal of demand for Aldermore’s market, the property development common-sense approach, not relying solely on market is more important than ever. The computerised underwriting but assessing each development industry is full of talented and application on a case-by-case basis. We will hardworking people who care immensely consider loans to developers who had trouble about their jobs, and awards like these reward during the downturn and want to start building organisations and people that innovate and again; just because a firm went bust during the support their customers. credit crunch does not mean it is a bad risk today. Aldermore started in 2009, at a time when the As a champion of smaller developers and economic situation wasn’t particularly positive. builders in particular, Aldermore is proud to The past few years have been especially tough support the WhatHouse? Awards to help for smaller developers: the construction industry make sure that the housebuilding industry gets was crushed during the recession, with many the recognition it deserves for its valuable good firms pushed under and countless projects contribution to the UK economy. cancelled or mothballed. Mainstream funders Simon Knowles, head of property turned their back on the industry en masse. development
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British Gypsum is a leading industry and recognise those who do, which manufacturer of interior lining is something we feel passionately about. systems with over 100 years of British Gypsum tries where possible to associate experience in plaster, plasterboard and ceiling with like-minded brands and through our solutions and, as such, is focused on helping involvement with housebuilders such as Cawrey customers build better spaces to live and work. Homes, Barratt West Midlands, Scandia-Hus, British Gypsum is proud to support the Lewis Properties and English Brothers we WhatHouse? Awards. These prestigious awards have helped to create innovative living spaces, support innovation within the housebuilding which are desirable to homebuyers, and drive industry, which is something that we feel very standards forward. strongly about. British Gypsum is driven by British Gypsum’s products are designed to innovation and is always looking for new and give housebuilders a competitive edge when creative ways to meet demand from customers. completing projects. This is something that is This is most evident through our Rooms Made of growing importance as homebuyers place For You range, which features Thistle Magnetic increasingly high expectations on new build Plaster, Lifestyle Wall and Sound Solutions. developments. The WhatHouse? Awards Each of these propositions has a unique recognise the endeavours of those housebuilders approach to tackling everyday problems for who go the extra mile, tackle the issues that are homeowners and, what’s more, they have been of growing concern to customers and deliver designed in such a way that they can be installed superior living and working environments. This easily by housebuilders. is intrinsic to the British Gypsum ethos and The awards align with British Gypsum’s one of the reasons that we are delighted to be philosophies and beliefs in that they strive to associated with these influential awards. improve standards within the housebuidling Sarah White, residential sector manager
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CANNES JOIN DO @ 2016 ATTITUDE
Before: The February issue of Show House will feature a preview supplement of MIPIM 2016.
During: Show House will be distributed at MIPIM in Cannes and Rupert Bates, editorial director and Iga Lisowska, sales manager, will be in Cannes for editorial and advertising meetings… ..and maybe even a drink under the Mediterranean sun.
After: The April issue of Show House will feature a review supplement of MIPIM 2016.
Show House is looking for sponsors, advertisers and editorial contributions, as it covers the world’s biggest property event, talking new homes with more than 20,000 developers, agents and investors from nearly 100 countries.
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It has been an historic year for content and features in 2016 and suggestions Show House magazine. Our 20th are always welcome, with MIPIM, the world’s birthday celebrations kicked off biggest property event, an early focus for the with Show House retaining its crown for the magazine, with preview and review second successive time as Magazine of the supplements, as well as a special Show House Year at the LSL Property Press Awards. issue distributed in Cannes during MIPIM 20 years is a milestone anniversary having week in March. found a gap in the market back in 1995. We WhatHouse? is our sister brand, so we are couldn’t have got here without not just the always very proud to be involved and Show House team, but our readers, associated with the WhatHouse? Awards, the advertisers and contributors, helping to Oscars of the housebuilding industry. deliver the housebuilding industry’s Show House will be publishing a favourite monthly read, packed with people, comprehensive review of the WhatHouse? product, punch, personality and a light touch Awards, featuring all the winners and images where needed. from the ceremony, in our December issue. We have plenty of exciting plans for new Iga Lisowska, Sales Manager
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The N&C Group is the leading decades. We are recognised as the authority in manufacturer and supplier of wet wet room systems, chairing the UK Technical Wet rooms, tiles and showers to the UK Room committee. Our internationally proven, housebuilding industry and is very pleased to warranted wet room systems offer housebuilders sponsor the WhatHouse? Awards 2015. total peace of mind alongside the latest in Wet rooms have become a key area for adding design-led innovation. value to new homes. Today’s design-conscious The N&C Group owns four state-of-the-art consumer aspires to own a wet room and that manufacturing facilities and has distribution offers housebuilders the opportunity of centres throughout England, Scotland and Wales additional margin, as the consumer perceives offering a next-day delivery service using our the cost of a wet room to be substantial. The private fleet of low emission vehicles to any reality is very different: N&C already offers some address, including direct to site. of the UK’s largest and smallest housebuilders a Our 140 years of manufacturing and warranted, British-manufactured Total Wet distribution experience, coupled with a highly Room Solution for little more than the cost of the competitive offer and unique market-leading standard en suite shower tray and enclosure. innovation make The N&C Group the perfect N&C has been manufacturing and distributing wet room partner. wet rooms to the UK building industry for Richard Hill, director
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It doesn’t seem that long ago since model, which gives our managers time to do the last WhatHouse? Awards but what they do best and take care of your assets. over the last year Warwick Estates Warwick’s experienced teams have been able has been cementing its position at the to assist with early involvement in developments forefront of developers’ minds when it for our clients, taking care of management comes to picking a distinctive managing angles from the beginning and enabling clients agent they can really trust for their major to focus on their core activities, while we help residential projects. smooth the process along to a seamless It says much about our continued success that transition into our care for the longer term. most of our offices around the country have had We remain focused on our future growth, to expand this year as, in particular, our new build which looks extremely positive, but more so on team improves on its achievements and grows maintaining the service delivery that has fuelled from strength to strength in all regions, our development thus far and above all in especially in London. Staffing levels have retaining our genuine passion for what we do. increased beyond projections so we can maintain All here at Warwick Estates are looking our industry-leading low ratio of just 15 sites forward to seeing more new friends this year maximum for our managers and their assistants and developing and firming up our lasting to take care of. partnerships across the industry for another Demand for our services has been incredible, impressive year ahead. driven by our multiple award-winning and unique Craig Stevens, director
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NHBC is delighted to be sponsoring with annual UK registrations almost back to their this year’s WhatHouse? Awards as long-term average. part of our ongoing support to the By evolving and tailoring our services, UK housebuilding industry. NHBC is able to offer an unparalleled range of Our sector has enjoyed another promising provisions to our registered builders at this year, continuing on from the growth in new time of considerable growth in the UK new home volumes seen over the last three years. homes market. Despite this upturn for UK housebuilding, Despite the many challenges the NHBC, and many other organisations within the housebuilding sector continues to face, NHBC industry, have continued to emphasise that we has been an effective partner in supporting the must not lose sight of the fact that the country industry, working with builders to stay abreast of still has a drastic shortage of new, quality homes. changes, and retain the right skills to enable the It is now clear to see from our registration construction of high standard and quality homes. figures that the sector has partly recovered from Finally, the very best of luck to everybody the effects of the recession and, to attempt to involved in the Awards and I hope you all have fully capitalise on this, we have been looking a great day. ahead at the new challenges this may bring, Mike Quinton, CEO
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Local World is one of the largest websites and, as a result, their audiences are regional media networks in the steadily growing. UK, serving our local communities This year, our digital products have really with our portfolio of over 100 long-established been embraced by the new homes industry, print titles and more than 70 websites. with many successful campaigns running across In an ever-more competitive market, our our online portfolio. Using our full optimisation newspapers continue to reach well over and targeting options delivers an even better four million readers every week and our response; several property clients have websites have grown to reach 10 million received a 600% increase in click though rates people a month. by applying these instead of traditional ‘run of With most people moving within a small site’ advertising. area, generally less than six miles, our local Local media means local knowledge. Half the newspapers and websites continue to deliver people in the UK use their local media to keep an the best shop window for property advertising eye on their local property market, significantly within our local markets. more than use either estate agents or specialist Our property supplements now include portals. So whether it’s building a database for a dedicated property editorial and features every new site launch or reinvigorating leads on a more week, supporting our property clients and established site, Local World will create a bespoke ensuring maximum reader engagement. We multimedia campaign to drive enquiries. have also invested heavily in our network of local Mike Fundell, classified property manager
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TCL is a leading provider of ‘outside complex including the landscape, railings, space’ services to residential signage and lighting. With one number to call housebuilders throughout the UK. you need no longer worry about your sales area With over 30 years’ experience within the opening on time or the hassle of coordinating landscape services sector, TCL supports various suppliers. residential housebuilders throughout the TCL’s specialist play area business, Playforce, entire construction cycle, with unparalleled provides design and installation services to pedigree in relation to provision of ‘outside support housebuilders make best use of land space’-related services. designated for play provision. With a focus on TCL provides landscape consultancy, design, site aesthetics/screening, acoustic architecture, installation and grounds suppression and selection of play equipment maintenance services to many of the UK’s that both blends with the development and fits leading housebuilders, with services provided by with the adopting local authority, every effort is directly employed and highly trained colleagues. made ensure that LAPs/LEAPs offer a reason to From sales area and plot design and select property on your development rather installation through to public open space than reject it. installations, TCL has all your requirements Clean Estates, TCL’s cleaning services covered. business, provides a range of build clean services With dedicated focus on sales area to ensure your properties complete on time and installations, TCL provides an end-to-end to your customers’ satisfaction. service, designing and installing the entire sales Simon Cashmore, Group CEO
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Collyer Bristow is proud to be can provide support at every stage, from land associated with the WhatHouse? acquisition to plot sales. Awards – the most prestigious event Our key strength lies in being able to in the industry’s calendar. understand the differing perspectives of builders, Collyer Bristow LLP is a leading law firm developers, landowners, local authorities, offering a wide range of services to both financial institutions and retailers in complex businesses and individuals in the UK and mixed-use development projects. We have an internationally. Our specialist real estate group instinct for looking ahead and anticipating provides a comprehensive service to property problems before they arise, ensuring that we are owners, investors, developers, landlords, always prepared for the next stage in any project. tenants, banks and borrowers. We pride ourselves on providing our clients with Housebuilding is at the very core of what we sensible, straightforward advice and information, do. We work in close partnership with our and exceptional levels of service – whatever the housebuilder clients, helping them to maximise size of the project. the income and profitability of sites, by providing We would like to offer our congratulations to legal advice that is both pragmatic and all the award-winners. commercially focused. Our experienced team Paul Newhall, business development director
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COINS is the leading supplier of IT the biggest national operators as well as many solutions to UK homebuilders. of the most successful regional developers. Our We understand how important the market share of the sector is 60%, measured by housing industry is in the UK and we are proud to both industry revenue and unit production. work in partnership with our customers adding We are delighted to sponsor the industry’s value to their businesses through the delivery of most prestigious awards and celebrate with our cost savings and creative solutions to business award-winning customers. challenges. COINS unrivalled client lists includes Richard Vale, account director
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Green Lighting has always had It is a great opportunity to sponsor the a strong connection with the WhatHouse? Awards 2015. We are proud to housebuilders of the UK, working be able to show our commitment to the closely alongside them for over a decade. housebuilding industry and promote ourselves By consistently exceeding the expectations and our unique qualities as a company. With a of our customers and supplying quality range of innovative LED products, including products that surpass the requirements of downlights, lanterns and an abundance of building regulations, we have been able to new decorative lighting, along with unique build and maintain strong bonds with services, such as our first-year labour support developers nationwide. service, we strive to be at the forefront of We are proud to be able to show our the market. commitment to the industry sector with which At Green Lighting, we intend to continue we work most closely, acknowledging the to develop our products to improve both achievements of worthy developers, as, with functionality and efficiency, keeping us at the over 5,500 new construction firms being formed top of the market, continuing to strengthen our in the last year, it is more important than ever to bond with the UK housebuilder. stand out from the crowd. Anthony Ottway, managing director
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