The Aviary’ is a proposed new Country House submitted for planning consent under the ‘paragraph 55 exception’ in August 2014 by JPA, working with Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, Landscape Architect. This exception to normal planning policy allows for ‘truly outstanding designs’ and designs that ‘reflect the highest standards in architecture’ - continuing the tradition of the English Country House - to gain planning consent.
The site is set within a wooded site in the area of Munstead in the Surrey Hills, close to some of the architect Lutyen’s great Country Houses. Our design on this site seeks to completely re-imagine the Country House – attempting to create a dwelling that perhaps Lutyens would design if he had the technical means that lie in our hands today.
