studio | REAL were appointed by Moat Housing Group (MHG) to prepare a masterplan and planning application for the construction of 176 residential dwellings on an allocated housing site at Langley Lane, Ifield. The site presented a number of environmental challenges, including several hundred mature trees, a number of important hedgerows and water features, and adjacent listed buildings within a conservation area. The masterplan retained the majority of natural features on the site and proposed a housing layout that provided 50% affordable housing designed to mix with the market housing without any obvious difference in appearance between tenures.
After securing detailed planning consent, studio | REAL were retained to prepare a detailed design by MHG and their development partners, Higgins Group. The masterplan proposed 11 different house types and 2 apartment blocks within the development to provide a range of dwelling sizes and tenures including two, three and four bedroom family houses and one and two bedroom flats to meet the local housing need. 50% of the development was allocated for affordable housing. House types were designed to ensure that all units, affordable and otherwise, were externally very similar and mixed throughout the scheme.
Client
MOAT Housing Group
Scope
Masterplanning and Housing Design
Location
Langley Lane, Ifield
Status
Completed 2006
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