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Specialist Housing & Care
I am delighted to present PRP’s recent portfolio of housing for older people and other vulnerable groups. Over the past few years we have seen the completion of a large number of new projects and we have many more high quality schemes that are currently in the planning system or under construction. As illustrated in this brochure, we have enjoyed unprecedented success in achieving Housing Design Awards every year since its inception following the publication of the HAPPI report in 2009. However, the passionate engagement of our teams working in this sector runs much deeper than architectural achievement. We derive huge pleasure from making a material difference to the quality of lives at a stage of life that is perhaps the most challenging to individuals and their families. In the coming years, we anticipate that there will be a move towards well-located independent living projects to meet the aspirations of a new generation of older people. At the same time, in order to address the growing funding crisis in the NHS, there will be huge pressure for the provision of more community based development which integrates housing and healthcare. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our clients, fellow consultants and contractors for the great collaborative working relationships that have carried these projects to fruition.
Anne-Marie Nicholson Partner
Specialist Housing and Care
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We’re focused on people’s needs and aspirations, instilling everything we learn into everything we do. Specialist Housing team
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Publications and research
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Integrated working: A holistic approach to design
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Projects throughout the UK
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Award winning design
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Projects
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Contact us
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Specialist Housing team
Anne-Marie Nicholson Partner
“I’m proud to lead such a fantastic team of architects and designers at PRP. We consistently produce innovative solutions for our clients, where residents feel at home and are happy and excited to live”
020 8339 3085 am.nicholson@prparchitects.co.uk
Jenny Buterchi Director
“I work closely with our talented design and technical teams to ensure the smooth delivery of projects to meet client aspirations and deadlines. Using our extensive experience we create delightful, enabling environments for residents”
020 8339 3065 jenny.buterchi@prparchitects.co.uk
Clare Cameron Director
“I ensure that all projects are comprehensively reviewed to maintain the highest standard of design quality whilst meeting accessibility and technical requirements necessary for the end users”
020 8339 3074 clare.cameron@prparchitects.co.uk
Stephen Hynds Director 020 8339 3618 stephen.hynds@prparchitects.co.uk
Specialist Housing and Care
“I enjoy the whole process of design and delivery and bringing it all together as a completed project”
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“I oversee the working drawings and construction phase of many of our Extra Care and Specialist Housing projects and maintain a focus on design right into the detail” Justin Bannister Director 020 8339 3057 justin.bannister@prparchitects.co.uk
Graham Locke Director 0161 242 8967 graham.locke@prparchitects.co.uk
Mark Walker Associate Director
“I lead the expanding Specialist Housing and Healthcare team in our Manchester studio. PRP’s unrivalled reputation has allowed us to reach new clients across the North of England and to deliver beautiful, accessible new homes which can meet the changing needs of individuals”
“I work at the design stages of a project and ensure the concept is realised through to completion. I enjoy the conception and crafting of beautiful, functional and inspiring buildings for our clients and residents”
020 8339 3661 mark.walker@prparchitects.co.uk
Polly Damen Associate Director 020 8339 3671 polly.damen@prparchitects.co.uk
“I create quality buildings that would sit happily in high end private residential developments, for today’s senior generation who value high standards of design and excellent standards of living”
Publications and research
Thought leaders
HAPPI
Members of the Specialist Housing Group are recognised as thought leaders within the sector, carrying out research on the issues surrounding resident and staff needs, as well as care provision and issues of revenue funding and legislation.
Roger Battersby, PRP’s Managing Partner, was a member of the Housing our Ageing Population Panel of Innovation (HAPPI) appointed by the HCA on behalf of the Department for Communities and Local Goverment (DCLG) to review the quality of housing for older people in the UK.
Several members of the Group have been involved in the production of well recognised publications including NonMainstream Housing Design Guidance published by the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) and Design principles for Extra Care for the Department of Health and Housing LIN.
Designing for dementia As the number of dementia sufferers rapidly increases in the over 55s, design issues for dementia play an extremely important role within our projects. Thinking of the changing needs of older people, we strive to ensure we stay abreast of current best practice. To enable us to do this we make regular visits to the University of Stirling’s Dementia Services Development Centre and also attend workshops with experts from the care sector.
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The ten recommendations set out in the HAPPI report in 2009 now form the foundation for all our projects. Our management team have visited numerous European examples of HAPPI schemes in order to grow our knowledge of best practice. Recently however, an HDA judge has said of two of our schemes that “There is no need to go running around Europe for excellent examples of HAPPI schemes anymore when we have schemes like these in the UK.” In 2010 the Department of Health became an awards partner for the annual Housing Design Awards and included a special HAPPI award for projects offering the best housing for our ageing population. PRP have won six HAPPI Housing Design Awards since then and had an additional seven schemes shortlisted. Accolades from the judging panel include ‘setting the benchmark for all housing for older people’ and ‘the best in Europe’.
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Roger Battersby Managing Partner 020 8339 3600 roger.battersby@prparchitects.co.uk
Integrated by Design An overview of current provisions and emerging trends in housing and care for older people in the UK. One of the greatest challenges of our generation must surely be how we achieve a more holistic and cohesive strategy for our ageing population. Thanks largely to the publication of the HAPPI report in 2009, we have seen some improvement in the quality of housing in the sector in recent years, despite the stringent constraints on both public and private sector funding caused by political change and the financial crisis. We are now seeing signs of increasing activity in the sector. Jeremy Porteus, Director of the Housing LIN and co-author of the HAPPI2 report said, “Under the Blair government, the focus of public policy was ‘education, education, education’. This has now been replaced by ‘integration, integration, integration’ and the government is driving through substantial service and system reform to integrate care and support for vulnerable and older people.
“To date, this has primarily been about integrating health and social services, not with housing and the built environment. However, the way we design our homes and communities has to be part of the landscape.” The issue of how we are to fund housing and care support for older people is being addressed through the Care Bill based broadly on the recommendations of Andrew Dilnot’s report published in the summer of 2012. Our housing and neighbourhoods need to be designed to be as inclusive as possible. We will need an increasingly integrated approach to housing and care delivery, in relation to services, agencies and local and central government and in locating older people at the heart of our communities. Innovation will be needed in design, assistive technology and, particularly, from the financial services industry to release equity and offer creative funding arrangements to meet the growing costs of housing and care. To read the full Integrated by Design report, authored by PRP’s Roger Battersby, visit our website: www.prparchitects.co.uk/specialisthousing
Integrated working: A holistic approach to design
“Residential developments that are sustainable not only perform well in terms of the environment and energy but also create environments that promote the health and well being of its residents. My role involves future-proofing to ensure that both the buildings and its residents are resilient to the impacts of climate change.” Marylis Ramos, Associate Director, Environmental
PRP’s integrated practice consists of specialists from several complementary design and consultancy services, including; Environmental, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Planning, Project Services and Transport Planning. We work collaboratively to ensure that our schemes draw on the strength of their context and are developed with a clear strategy in mind. An integrated approach, with a focus on residents and clients, enables us to make a positive contribution towards deliverable, desirable and cost effective design solutions. Combining in-house specialist skills and resources early in the process provides clients with many benefits, including:
“A well designed landscaped garden can encourage those with dementia to live a more active and stimulating life, which in turn can help combat the effects of declining cognitive ability.” Tom Delhanty, Associate Director, Landscape Architecture
• Time and therefore financial efficiencies • Expertise as soon as it is needed • A joined up approach • A supportive team of people who know each other well • Clarity of vision from the outset • The chance to maximise on the opportunities each discipline brings early in the process
Environmental Marylis Ramos, Associate Director marylis.ramos@prpenvironmental.co.uk
Interior Design Michael Sandford, Associate Director michael.sandford@prparchitects.co.uk
Landscape Architecture Tom Delhanty, Associate Director tom.delhanty@prparchitects.co.uk
“I work closely with the Specialist Housing Group and can navigate clients around specific planning issues relevant to these housing typologies and site wide constraints, before they arise.” Eve Ladden, Senior Planner, Planning
Planning Eve Ladden, Senior Planner eve.ladden@prpplanning.co.uk
Project Services Philip Pamment, Director philip.pamment@prpprojectservices.co.uk
Transport Planning Andrew Whittingham, Director andrew.whittingham@prptransport.co.uk
“We understand the nature of these special projects and the complex briefs that can involve multiple stakeholders. Our management approach seeks to preserve the vision whilst delivering affordable, high quality buildings.” Philip Pamment, Director, Project Services
“We work closely with our colleagues to ensure that the movement and circulation needs of schemes are optimised and car parking is provided at an appropriate level.” Andrew Whittingham, Director, Transport Planning
Specialist Housing and Care
“Our designs aim to optimise orientation, recognition and familiarity. We understand the importance of creating spaces and surroundings in which residents can feel comfortable, confident and safe.� Michael Sandford, Associate Director, Interior Design
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Projects throughout the UK
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Award winning design
WINNER Building Awards 2014 Housing Project of the Year for Pilgrim Gardens, Evington
WINNER Housing Design Awards 2012 HAPPI Project Award for Pilgrim Gardens, Evington
SHORTLISTED Building Awards 2014 Housing Project of the Year for Kidbrooke, Greenwich
SHORTLISTED Housing Design Awards 2012 HAPPI Project Award for The Oaks, Merton
WINNER Housing Design Awards 2014 HAPPI Completed Award for Pilgrim Gardens, Evington
SHORTLISTED Housing Design Awards 2012 HAPPI Project Award for Prince Charles House, St Austell
SHORTLISTED Housing Design Awards 2014 HAPPI Completed Award for Kidbrooke, Greenwich
WINNER The Sunday Times British Homes Awards 2012 Age-Restricted Development Award for Prince Charles House, St Austell
WINNER CIH Award 2014 Midlands Development of the Year for St Bede’s Extra Care, Bedford WINNER BREEAM Awards 2014 Mixed Use and Other Buildings Award for Prince Charles House, St Austell
WINNER British Homes Awards 2011 Lifetime Home of the Year for Trees, Highgate WINNER Housing Design Awards 2011 HAPPI Completed Award for Trees, Highgate
SHORTLISTED Pinders Healthcare Design Awards 2014 Care Homes for the Elderly for James Terry Court, Croydon
WINNER Housing Design Awards 2011 HAPPI Project Award for St Bede’s Extra Care, Bedford
WINNER Housing Design Awards 2013 HAPPI Completed Award for Prince Charles House, St Austell
SHORTLISTED Housing Design Awards 2011 HAPPI Project Award for Christopher Boone’s Almhouses, Lewisham
SHORTLISTED Housing Design Awards 2013 HAPPI Project Award for Weale Road, Chingford
WINNER Housebuilder Awards 2011 Best Design for Trees, Highgate
Few people know as much about Specialist Housing as we do; a fact reflected in the size, skills and experience of our team and the number and diversity of our projects.
Pilgrim Gardens, Evington, Leicester Specialist Housing and Care
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Projects Housing and care solutions for older and vulnerable people As the UK market leaders in the field of Specialist Housing and Care, our award winning team works with housing associations, charities, local authorities and private developers. We cover all stages of the design process from inception to completion. Our projects range from small specialist dementia Care Homes to large Retirement Villages offering a range of tenures.
Senior Housing
Retirement Villages
Beautifully designed, self-contained apartments with ‘hotel style’ communal facilities and flexible care for those that need it: Independent Living/Extra Care Housing/Assisted Living gives the over 55s independent living with peace of mind for the future. Typically at ground floor level, communal and support facilities can also be shared to integrate with the wider community. PRP advises clients to tailor the facilities they offer to ensure viability based on the size of the development and what is already available in the local area. These might include a residents’ lounge, dining room, full catering kitchen, hair salon, activity space, IT connections, assisted bathroom, offices, guest/staff accommodation, a laundry, sensory and activity gardens.
Large scale age-restricted housing based communities which promote social interaction through common interests: Retirement Villages vary greatly in terms of their tenure, philosophy, communal facilities, density and location. The market is growing rapidly to provide greater choice, offering more flexibility in financial and care packages and higher quality facilities to cater for the rising aspirations of ‘baby boomer’ retirees. PRP works with clients to develop their briefs and secure often controversial planning approval.
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Residential Care and Nursing Homes
Learning Disabilities and Special Educational Needs
Accommodation in Residential Care and Nursing Homes consists typically of dementia friendly en-suite bedrooms grouped into clusters with 24 hour care, often including dementia care, provided for residents on the higher end of the dependency scale. Each cluster shares a range of communal facilities such as a lounge, kitchenette, dining room, assisted bathing, and storage area, with more communal facilities available to all residents. These might include cinema rooms, garden rooms, and even studios for creating and displaying art. Due to the growing number of elderly residents who will have dementia and other sensory impairments, it is particularly important to design enabling environments, to assist orientation and way-finding through maximising natural light, visual clues and sensory stimuli.
Charities and not-for-profit organisations are commissioning supported housing, care and learning resources for children and adults with learning disabilities and physical impairments in the heart of existing communities. PRP design these buildings to be homely, to meet the full range of individuals’ needs and wishes while enabling as much independence as possible through inclusive, adaptable and flexible solutions.
Kidbrooke Greenwich, London
WINNER Housing Design Awards 2010 HAPPI Project Award
INDEPENDENT LIVING/EXTRA CARE HOUSING
This award winning scheme has set a precedent for attractive contemporary retirement apartments at the heart of a large urban regeneration project. The high density design challenges the central corridor Extra Care typology with a ‘Core and Cluster’ arrangement.
Client: Berkeley Homes - Urban Renaissance Completion: April 2013 Value: £25 million Units: 170 Role: Architecture Tenure: 90% Affordable, 10% Shared Ownership
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The project is designed to integrate with the wider community through sharing its extensive communal facilities which include a well used village hall, available for booking by external groups, a bar, restaurant and spa facilities. The central ‘podium’ garden space, high level roof terrace and spacious private balconies to all apartments make this urban development unusually abundant in good quality external amenity.
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“From the outset there was a real sense of partnership and a shared ambition between Berkeley, PRP and all the other stakeholders to design and deliver an exemplary housing scheme for older people.� Tony Pidgley Berkeley Homes Chairman and HAPPI panelist
Kidbrooke, Greenwich, London Specialist Housing and Care
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Campshill Road Lewisham, London EXTRA CARE HOUSING Client: London Borough of Lewisham Completion: Summer 2016 Value: ÂŁ7.38 million Units: 50 Role: Architecture, Landscape Architecture Tenure: 86% Affordable, 14% Shared Ownership
A simple, rational diagram was the key to the success of this scheme. Three connected brick pavilion blocks accommodate both the Extra Care apartments and the communal spaces which are arranged around two south facing courtyard gardens. The scheme forms one side of a new mews space which also serves an existing maisonette block for general needs accommodation. This approach unifies the site which used to contain garaging, drying yards and storage spaces owned by the local authority. The result is a much improved and cohesive landscaped space that will encourage intergenerational living. Fantastic penthouse apartments, a shared roof terrace, a large proportion of deck access and true dual aspect apartments create a wonderful setting for urban living.
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Oaks Court Merton
Shortlisted Housing Design Awards 2012 HAPPI Project Award
EXTRA CARE HOUSING
This Extra Care development replaced an outdated sheltered housing scheme with contemporary, spacious, innovative and flexible accommodation suitable for current and future generations of older people.
Client: Merton Priory Homes (Circle) Completion: May 2014 Value: ÂŁ7 million Units: 51 Role: Architecture, Environmental Services, Landscape Architecture, Planning Tenure: Affordable Rent
The scheme is dementia friendly and is seamlessly integrated into the heart of a residential community adjacent to an existing day centre. All flats are dual aspect and exemplify the aspirations of the HAPPI initiative.
St Bede’s Bedford
WINNER CIH Awards 2014 Midlands development of the Year WINNER Housing Design Awards 2011 HAPPI Project Award
INDEPENDENT LIVING/EXTRA CARE HOUSING
This very impressive new Extra Care scheme incorporates locally cherished Edwardian old school buildings which have been remodelled to provide impressive dual aspect apartments. The new build area includes dramatic triple height atrium, extensive communal facilities and wings of accommodation which enclose a series of carefully designed gardens. A variety of architectural approaches reflect the context of the Conservation Area where the elevations meet three quite different street frontages.
Client: Orbit Homes Completion: September 2014 Value: ÂŁ13 million Units: 104 Role: Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture Tenure: 50% Affordable, 50% Shared Ownership
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A feature of the project is its generous recessed balconies which provide outdoor amenities for all the residents.
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“St Bede’s has given me a new lease of life. My daughter says she has been given her mum back.” Resident, St Bede’s
St Bede’s, Bedford Specialist Housing and Care
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Shrewsbury Street Old Trafford, Manchester COMMUNITY HUB: EXTRA CARE HOUSING, HEALTHCARE, COMMUNITY FACILITIES Client: Trafford Housing Trust Completion: March 2017 Value: ÂŁ18.5 million Units: 80 Role: Architecture Tenure: Affordable Rent
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This innovative scheme will provide a community healthcare hub into the heart of Old Trafford and placing its older residents at the very heart of its community. The building has been designed to serve all generations by incorporating a pre-school nursery for 40 children, IT suites and library facilities for students to continue their coursework and sports changing facilities to encourage an active healthy lifestyle. Flexibility and adaptability have been incorporated into the design from the outset, to ensure that the building continues to serve the community as their needs and aspirations change over time. The development incorporates 80 units of Extra Care housing. Committee members praised the scheme for the quality of the community engagement undertaken, its high quality design, the ambition and vision of the project and looked forward to the positive impact it will have on the Old Trafford area.
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“PRP has really understood the vision and values for this development and has translated this into a scheme which the Trust and our key partners including the Council, can be very proud of.� Trafford Housing Trust
Farrow Court Ashford, Kent COMMUNITY HUB: INDEPENDENT LIVING, COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE, RECUPERATIVE CARE, LEARNING DISABILITIES Client: Ashford Borough Council Completion: June 2015 Value: ÂŁ13 million Units: 104 Role: Architecture, Environmental Services, Landscape Architecture, Planning Tenure: Affordable Rent Specialist Housing and Care
This innovative project is at the forefront of the current policy to integrate housing, health and adult services in the community. As part of a large estate regeneration programme the new development will place housing for its older residents at the heart of the neighbourhood whilst providing a resource centre and community facilities for its residents and the wider community.
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Charlie Ratchford Camden, London EXTRA CARE HOUSING AND DAY CENTRE Client: London Borough of Camden Completion: est. 2016 Units: 38 Role: Architecture, Landscape Architecture Tenure: Affordable Rent
This scheme has been designed to respond sensitively to the Victorian housing surrounding the site and provide an active frontage to a busy road in the heart of Camden. The six storey building creates an architectural focal point which marks the entrance from Chalk Farm Road. Brick elevations reflect the scale and rhythm of the Camden vernacular.
Smithy Croft Heald Green, Stockport EXTRA CARE HOUSING Client: Your Housing Group/Seddon Completion: July 2014 Value: ÂŁ6 million Units: 55 Role: Architecture, Landscape Architecture Tenure: 50% Affordable Rent, 50% Shared Ownership, Private Sale
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The development provides 55 units of which 50% are affordable housing for rent and 50% shared ownership/private sale, going some way to meeting Stockport’s increasing need for Extra Care provision. The design rationale was to establish a modern vernacular, sympathetic and complementary to the adjacent traditional residential properties. Smithy Croft provides an environment that fosters the independence of older residents in a community setting where care can be tailored to individual needs. Located close to the village centre, the range of communal facilities have been carefully selected to ensure that Smithy Croft performs as an extension to the village rather than competing with facilities which already exist. To complement these facilities the development is set within a high quality, secure landscape, encouraging residents to remain actively healthy.
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Christopher Boone’s Almshouses Lewisham, London
SHORTLISTED Housing Design Awards 2011 HAPPI Project Award
INDEPENDENT LIVING
This project replaces 1960s almshouse bungalows with a mixed tenure scheme that maximises the development potential of the site providing 60 new apartments for independent living and 28 new dwellings for private sale.
Client: Christopher Boone’s Almshouses Charity Completion: April 2016 Value: £16 million Units: 88 Role: Architecture, Landscape Architecture Tenure: Affordable Rent, Private Sale
The almshouse concept has been reinvented as generously sized dual aspect apartments, each with its own front door, accessed from gallery walkways that overlook the courtyard where a multi-functional communal space offers opportunities for social interaction.
Pilgrim Gardens Evington, Leicester
WINNER Building Awards 2014 Housing Project of the Year WINNER Housing Design Awards 2014 HAPPI Completed Award WINNER Housing Design Awards 2012 HAPPI Project Award
INDEPENDENT LIVING Client: Pilgrims’ Friend Society Completion: September 2013 Value: £5 million Units: 31 Role: Architecture, Landscape Architecture Tenure: Affordable Rent and Shared Ownership Housing
The contemporary independent living apartments at Pilgrim Gardens share the site with an existing Care Home and complement the facilities and housing offered by the Pilgrims’ Friend Society. A simple orthogonal layout wraps around a courtyard with constant views outside, to the oriental inspired landscaping and central lime tree. Dual aspect apartments are accessed via sheltered colonnades at the ground floor and gallery access on the first. Each apartment has a large balcony and wintergarden. It has won both the project and completed categories at the Housing Design Awards and Housing Project of the Year at the building Awards - reflecting its high standard of design and attention to detail.
See the HDA commissioned film on our website: www.prparchitects.co.uk/our-work/specialist-housing/projects/ pilgrim-gardens-evington.html Specialist Housing and Care
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“There’s no reason to go running around Europe for examples of excellent HAPPI schemes anymore when we have schemes like this in the UK”. David Birkbeck Design For Homes & HDA Awards Judge
Pilgrim Gardens, Evington, Leicester Specialist Housing and Care
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Highwood Mills Horsham EXTRA CARE HOUSING Client: Berkeley Homes (Southern) & Saxon Weald Homes Completion: Autumn 2015 Value: ÂŁ13 million Units: 107 Role: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Planning Tenure: Shared Ownership, Private Sale
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This Extra Care scheme sits at the gateway to a much larger private residential masterplan of over 1,000 new homes. It has been designed with the ambition to provide high quality housing for older people of architectural distinction which is fully integrated with the surrounding residential development. The housing for older people will provide mixed tenure, one and two bed apartments together with extensive communal facilities that will become an integral part of the new community.
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Weale Road Chingford
Shortlisted Housing Design Awards 2013 HAPPI Project Award
EXTRA CARE HOUSING
This contemporary development will replace two outdated community buildings on a site originally within the grounds of a historic building.
Client: Circle 33 Housing Trust Completion: May 2015 Value: ÂŁ7.45 million Units: 44 Role: Architecture, Environmental Services, Landscape Architecture, Planning Tenure: Affordable Rent
The scheme follows HAPPI recommendations with generous dual aspect apartments, each with a wintergarden and balcony. The main entrance is prominent and welcoming with the communal spaces clustered around the reception area. The cafĂŠ bistro will be open to the wider community to ensure a vibrant social heart to the scheme.
Prince Charles House St Austell
WINNER BREEAM Awards 2014 Mixed Use and Other Buildings Award WINNER Housing Design Awards 2013 HAPPI Completed WINNER British Homes Awards 2012 Best Age Restricted Development
INDEPENDENT LIVING
This compact three storey building provides Independent Living apartments for older people within an existing retirement community. It is the first demonstrator project for the Cornwall Eco Town and was designed to an achieve BREEAM Outstanding rating.
Client: Ocean Housing Ltd Completion: April 2012 Value: ÂŁ4.9 million Units: 31 Role: Architecture, Environmental Services, Planning Tenure: Affordable Rent, Shared Ownership
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The landscaped gardens were designed by the nearby Eden Project/ Sensory Trust.
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Hirst Gardens Burnley Wood, Burnley
Shortlisted Housing Design Awards 2010 HAPPI Project Award
INDEPENDENT LIVING
Hirst Gardens comprises 40 Category 1 sheltered 2 bed bungalows for affordable rental for the over 55s. It replaced Gerald Court, an ageing category 2 scheme owned and managed by Calico.
Client: Places for People/Calico Completion: 2008 Value: £3m Units: 40 Role: Architecture Tenure: 100% RSL
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The design brief required ‘an innovative new approach to the bungalow model’, high urban design standards and a truly distinctive scheme. PRP’s response was to re-invent the bungalow as a courtyard house for the over 55s. Each cluster shares a private courtyard garden. 3 ‘homezones’ provide access to the bungalows and include parking, planting and a sinuous vehicular route to deter through traffic. A combination of the semi-private ‘homezones’ overlooked by the dwellings and the secure courtyard amenity areas make this a very secure development for older residents. The ‘homezone’s and housing are wheelchair accessible throughout.
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Bramshott Place Liphook NURSING AND DEMENTIA CARE HOME Client: Renaissance Villages Value: £4.5 million Units: 64 en-suite bedrooms Role: Architecture Tenure: Private Rent
A 64 bedroom Care Home, along with 40 new cottages, will form part of an extension to an existing Retirement Village designed to create a Continuing Care Community at Bramshott Place in Hampshire. Designed as a contemporary interpretation of rural vernacular architecture, the accommodation is arranged in flexible ‘communities’ with their own shared dining, activity spaces and lounges and will comprise a mix of residential nursing and dementia care.
Trees Highgate, London
WINNER Housing Design Awards 2011 HAPPI Completed WINNER British Homes Awards 2011 Lifetime Home of the Year WINNER House Builder Awards 2011 Best Design
EXTRA CARE SHELTERED HOUSING
This high quality housing scheme derives its name from its setting within a collection of native trees, it also benefits from views high up on Highgate Hill across North London. The key design objective was to maximise natural light within and views out in a direct response to it’s context; balconies are set almost in the branches of the trees themselves. The design was conceived before the HAPPI Report in 2009, demonstrating PRP’s influence in achieving and promoting high quality design for older people. The HDA judges described it as “Setting the benchmark for all housing for older people in the UK” in 2011.
Client: Hill Homes and One Housing Group Completion: February 2011 Value: £7.2 million Units: 40 Role: Architecture, Environmental Services, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Project Management, Planning Tenure: Affordable Rent
See the HDA commissioned film on our website: www.prparchitects.co.uk/our-work/specialist-housing/ projects/trees-highgate.html Specialist Housing and Care
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“PRP’s Trees Extra Care Housing, is the best of its kind in Europe, with every aspect of the development researched and applied.” Housebuilder Awards Judges, 2011
St George’s Park East Sussex
WINNER Evening Standard New Homes Awards 2010 Best Retirement Development
CONTINUING CARE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
The brief for this project was to realise our client’s vision for a state-of-the-art, rural, continuing care Retirement Village. The development includes 236 predominantly two bedroom apartments for leasehold sale with the receipt from these then helping to cross-subsidise three 60 bedroom Nursing Homes on another part of the site.
Client: Augustinian Care Completion: August 2015 Value: £40 million Units: 416 Role: Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture Tenure: Private Sale Apartments, Care Bedrooms Rented with Private or Public Funding
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The village is set in the most beautiful rural surroundings with views over the South Downs. Residents have access to a restaurant, café , swimming pool and other communal facilities such as allotments where many people grow their own fruit and veg and keep active.
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Blurton Village Stoke-on-Trent EXTRA CARE HOUSING PFI Client: Stoke-on-Trent/ Sapphire/ Eric Wright Group Completion: Expected summer 2016 Value: £51 million Units: 390 Role: Architecture, Lead Designer Tenure: Affordable Rent
Blurton Village is one of three retirement ‘villages’ currently being delivered by the Sapphire Consortium under Stoke-on-Trent’s PFI initiative. Overall the initiative will deliver 390 new apartments for older people in three developments, each with its own distinct character that reflects its local context across the city. Blurton Village, with its 75 new 1 and 2 bedroom apartments, is the smallest of the three developments. It was conceived as three linear barns, which in their simple contemporary detail, reflect the listed agricultural buildings. These are being converted and remodelled to provide the communal facilities for the residents and ancillary and service accommodation.
Cliveden Manor Marlow
See the HDA commissioned film on our website: www.prparchitects.co.uk/our-work/specialist-housing/about-specialist-housing.html
ASSISTED LIVING/CARE HOME
Clivedon Manor in Marlow is one of a series of luxurious care homes PRP has designed for Signature Senior Lifestyle in the last few years. The home is arranged over three floors with each floor providing two wings of spacious care suites. The living accommodation is complemented by welcoming reception areas, superb dining facilities, spacious and well equipped activity areas and delightful landscaped gardens. The quality of care and accommodation is exceptionally high, far exceeding national standards. The design of the dementia community on the top floor reflects leading dementia research from the University of Stirling. The accommodation comprises generous private en-suite studios and open-plan and naturally lit communal spaces where residents can feel genuinely safe, stimulated and at home.
Client: Signature Senior Lifestyle Completion: July 2014 Value: ÂŁ11 million Units: 79 Role: Architecture, Landscape Architecture Tenure: Private Rent
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“This is an excellent example of care in this country. This is what care should look like.” Jeremy Hunt MP Health Secretary
James Terry Court Croydon
SHORTLISTED Pinders Healthcare Design Awards 2014 Care Homes for the Elderly
CARE HOME AND ASSISTED LIVING
This care home development provides the RMBI with a total of 60 spacious residential and nursing care bedrooms plus a self-contained wing of 16 dementia bedrooms and 13 extra care apartments carefully refurbished into the existing, locally listed building, the original James Terry Court, which has been brought back to its former splendour.
Client: Royal Masonic Benevolent Institute (RMBI) Completion: May 2013 Value: ÂŁ11 million Units: 89 Role: Architecture, Environmental Services, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture Tenure: Rental with Private or Public Funding
Specialist Housing and Care
The development potential of the site was unlocked by creating a fantastic roof garden on top of the new central shared communal facilities which is accessed at first floor level from the side wings and the existing building. The architecture of the new wings is fresh and contemporary whilst also being respectful of the much loved existing building.
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RNIB Pears Centre for Specialist Learning Coventry SPECIAL EDUCATION NEEDS SCHOOL AND CARE HOME Client: Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) Completion: December 2011 Value: £23.5 million Units: 60 Role: Architecture, Environmental Services, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Project Management
Specialist Housing and Care
This campus for the Royal National Institution for the Blind provides an exemplar facility for blind and partially sighted children with additional severe physical and cognitive impairments. The facilities provide a social environment that minimises the impact of the young people’s disabilities and prioritises meeting their needs in a holistic way. The development comprises a children’s Care Home arranged over ten houses and a secondary school which provides education for the young people living on site as well as day pupils from the surrounding area.
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RNIB Pears Centre for Specialist Learning, Coventry
“I wanted to thank you for the fantastic designs PRP did for the RNIB Pears Centre – it’s only now as everything finally comes together that it is possible to appreciate how inspiring these buildings really are.” Patrick McDonnald Company Secretary, RNIB Specialist Housing and Care
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