Laindon Place

Swan’s regeneration of Laindon Shopping Centre has already scooped the 'Best Regeneration' prize at the Housing Design Awards 2017, Best Scheme in Planning at the National Housing Awards 2017 and was commended in the Future Projects category in the MIPIM 2018 awards.

Branded as Laindon Place, this regeneration will see the transformation of the centre of Laindon with the creation of a new High Street with shops, a new Lidl supermarket, a modern health centre, new Swan office and 224 new homes.

NU living are building the scheme using a range of construction methods including precision manufactured homes, built in Swan’s local factory.

www.laindonfutures.co.uk

Location: Laindon, Essex

Tenure mix: 224 homes: 104 shared ownership apartments and houses, 120 private sale apartments and houses

Construction method: Swan office: concrete frame with top floor and roof construction steel frame. Commercial units are housed within a two storey concrete podium structure on top of which modular homes will be constructed. Houses will be constructed using modular construction methods

Development partners: Basildon Borough Council

Main consultants: Architects: Pollard Thomas Edwards and C.F. Møller Structural and Civil Engineer: HTS Structural and MEP Engineer: Ramboll

Awards: – Planning Awards 2018: Award for stakeholder engagement in planning – Housing Design Project Award 2017 – MIPIM / The AR Future Project Award 2018: Regeneration and Masterplanning - commended – National Housing Award 2017: Best Scheme in Planning