Feasibility, Masterplan and Housing Projects by WW+P

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Feasibility Studies & Housing Projects

Weston Williamson + Partners

We are a team of 150 professionals in the UK, Australia and Canada, of 15 nationalities, working flexibly and collaboratively with clients and the wider industry.

Our diverse international team members bring their own unique backgrounds and perspectives to projects and to the people that we work with. We are natural collaborators, keen to talk, to listen and to understand. It is by working closely with everyone involved – clients, stakeholders, colleagues and end users - that we deliver successful projects.

We are a design-led practice, full of people who relish a challenge and with a strong record of delivery. Our work is all about the people who use it; how they will inhabit and experience the buildings, places and artefacts that we design. We take a whole life approach, considering how our designs will adapt, retain their relevance and continue to be enjoyed for years to come.

We specialise in creating solutions for complex projects, large or small, international and local. We get to the essence of what people need from buildings and spaces, listening, challenging and responding to clients and stakeholders with elegant, bold solutions. We set out a clear and engaging vision that helps people get involved with the design and the process.

Our ambition is simple but expansive, shaping cities for the future, involving transport, master planning, public space, environment and living. People are at the heart of everything we do. We want to design buildings and places that are a pleasure to use and create civilised beautiful environments that enrich lives.

Feasibility Studies – Adding value

We enjoy developing creative design solutions that maximise value for our clients. Our feasibility studies efficiently demonstrate the capacity of sites through high quality development proposals.

Our starting point for all of our projects is always understanding the existing context - in relation to physical qualities, the local community, planning context and development values. This thorough understanding enables us to develop robust layout and massing proposals that are appropriate to the local context, that will meet the requirements of people who will be using the places, whilst minimising planning risk. Our commercial awareness in all sectors of the built environment ensures that our proposals respond appropriately to ever-changing pressures on the industry, ensuring that maximum value is realised.

Our Method We begin our process with a site analysis, identifying constraints to overcome, and opportunities to capitalise on. We use hand sketches to efficiently explore site layout options, ensuring that design decisions are driven by our understanding of the surrounding context, as well as practical considerations such as access and servicing. We develop preferred options in Revit, generating highly efficient typical floor plan layouts in order to maximise value. Area outputs from our Revit models give our clients assurance in gross and internal development areas.

Presented over the following pages are a selection of recent capacity studies where we have successfully generated a vision for high quality development, with an assurance of quantum and value for our clients.

Ashford

Ashford, UK Client: LinkCity RIBA Stages – 0-1 c. 300 new homes, plus industrial / supermarket retail at ground Dates – Jan 2019

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Our proposal for this site close to Ashford Station proposed 300 high quality residential units above a site-wide podium which accommodated mid-size industrial units, a supermarket and associated parking and delivery areas. The site arrangement took advantage of adjacent street level changes to ensure that the industrial uses did not impact the quality of the residential units. The orientation of the homes maximise views towards the adjacent park. A new communal garden square is proposed at the heart of the masterplan, which has the potential to link directly to the train station. This study demonstrated to our client how the range of uses within this development could be successfully achieved, whilst also maximising the quantum of high quality, mixed-tenure homes.

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St George’s House

Wimbledon, London, UK Client: Aecom 3,200 sqm / 347,000 sqft up to 80,000 sqm / 855,000 sqft Commercial development RIBA Stages - 1 June 2016 - Sept 2019

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St George’s House occupies a key site in Wimbledon Town Centre. With the planned arrival of Crossrail 2, Wimbledon will benefit from greater connectivity, and a resultant increase in land values. Our proposals for St George’s House explored ways that commercial floor area could be increased on the site, in order to meet the current demand for Grade A office space within Wimbledon Town Centre. Key to our proposals was to offer flexibility to the client, providing options that could adapt with market conditions. WW+P developed a number of incremental approaches that would increase the value of the site – from minimal to maximum intervention. The aim of all of these options was to increase the value of the site by increasing the area of lettable office space, and also improve the quality of the internal space and external appearance. All of these options were considered in the context of the wider Wimbledon masterplan, and also with consideration of how careful phasing could minimise the impact on the current usable office space.

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Luton Midland Road

Luton, UK Client: Aitch Group RIBA Stages - 1 180 new homes Mixed tenure August 2017

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Our proposal for this significant site next to Luton Station generated a high quality residential development that offered benefits to the wider town centre, whilst meeting the aspirations of the town centre masterplan. The proposals frame a new public square located along the High Street and improve permeability through the site with a new tree-lined street. Proposals also sensitively respond to the adjacent High Street, which sits within a conservation area, and has a number of locally listed buildings along its length. We made use of the level change across the site to achieve greater height and density to the east of the site, which is at a much lower level than the High Street, and benefits from greater distance from the conservation area.

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London, UK Client: Berkeley Homes Units,Min = c. 260 units and Max = 400 units, Plus some commercial / retail uses at ground floor RIBA Stages (from appointment to current stage) – 0-1 Dates – Jan 2019

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Our residential masterplan for this constrained site responded to the surrounding finer suburban residential grain, while also addressing the constrained boundaries, and accommodated commercial uses and an existing bus station. We explored a minimum and maximum development quantum for our client, retaining the key masterplan principles in both options. A range of residential typologies were proposed to respond to the varying context around the site. Perimeter buildings along the main road bounding the site mirrored adjacent town-houses, while adjacent to the railway the proposed massing rose above the railway to minimise noise disruption to residential properties. Within the site, the mix of residential typologies created a range of character areas, and a linear green park acted as a central focus to this new neighbourhood. The study demonstrated to our client how a viable and contextual development could be achieved on this highly constrained site.

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Selected Strategic Masterplans

As the populations of existing settlements increase, greater pressure is put on land use to accommodate this growth throughout our cities. With improved railway infrastructure investment comes greater potential for new places to live, work and play. Better connectivity and convenient, attractive public transport systems offer up opportunities for existing urban expansion or the creation of whole new settlements as desirable destinations in themselves.

Our master planning portfolio has grown beyond urban planning projects to include the technical challenges of delivering new development on and around railways, land use change and the implications for established settlements; together with developing architectural typologies which aim to address land use intensification and flexible development plot accommodation.

Arden Cross

Birmingham, UK Client: Arden Cross Ltd RIBA Stages – 0-1 c. 2,500 new homes, 30,000 new jobs Dates – Jan 2019

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Arden Cross is a nationally significant development opportunity. Our masterplan aims to create a world leading economic hub that co-locates business, living and learning within a fantastic new urban realm supported by high quality infrastructure. The 148-hectare site will create over 30,000 jobs and 2,500 new homes with future workers, residents and visitors benefiting from unparalleled access to air, rail and road travel. In partnership with the stakeholders across the region, alongside HS2 and the government, we developed a masterplan that demonstrates the scale of opportunity through a shared vision and set of clear development principles. Focusing on early phase priority projects linked to the integration of existing road and rail routes the masterplan sets out an achievable project strategy. The final masterplan is an innovative and forward-thinking approach to the site’s development, to harnesses the areas unique landscape and infrastructure and to create an environment in which people and businesses can thrive.

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Ebbsfleet Masterplan

Ebbsfleet, UK Client: Ebbsfleet Development Corporation RIBA Stages – 0-1 c. 2,500 new homes, 30,000 new jobs Dates – 2020 - 2021

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Ebbsfleet Central is an area of land focused around the International Station and is centrally located within the Garden City and surrounding settlements. The area has exceptional rail links to London, the Thames Estuary Production Corridor and Europe. The area has been earmarked for development, with a vision to create a new ‘heart’ of the Garden City. This will be achieved by improving connectivity to the site and into surrounding communities, delivering a variety of homes and jobs, creating new open spaces and enhancing existing natural spaces including the River Ebbsfleet. We developed a series of City gardens with connecting routes. Plot sizing allows for adaptablity of the plot typology to respond to economic and social change, whilst setting out a strong masterplan framework. Public transport and active travel routes were a key aspect of the proposals.

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Cardiff Station Masterplan

Cardiff, UK Client: Cardiff City Council, Transport for Wales, Network Rail RIBA Stages – 0-1 Dates – 2020 - 2021

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The station masterplan for Cardiff Central, aims to improve the capacity of the transport hub, whilst creating a fitting gateway to the Welsh capital. Station capacity improvements, such as options for the lengthening of an existing platform, has had significant impact on how the station masterplan could be developed. New station entrances, platform and commercial opportunities have all been driven by the platform extension scenarios Similarly, with how they could be delivered, in partnership with 3rd Party developers, who are currently undertaking a substantial redevelopment of an existing brewery site to the south of the station. WW+P identified opportunities for substantial development quantum on Network Rail land to support the business case for the station improvements. Safeguarding for future transport modes, has also influenced the masterplanning scenarios. Transport for Wales (TfW) ambitions for a new ‘tram-link’ to Cardiff Bay, has required the design team to develop options for passenger interchange and integration with development sites around the station.

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Bristol Temple Meads

Bristol, UK Client: Arden Cross Ltd RIBA Stages – 0-1 c. 2,500 new homes, 30,000 new jobs Dates – Jan 2019

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We have prepared this masterplan for Bristol Temple Quarter for our client body which comprises of; Bristol City Council, Network Rail and Homes England. This masterplan looks to provide a mixed-vibrant city quarter with 11,000 homes, along with the remodelling and upgrade of Bristol Temple Meads Station. We developed multiple masterplan scenarios, which all focused on three-character areas, identified as key inputs for the masterplan development and deliverability. The team is now developing height and density scenarios to agree with client team on a single direction to be developed.

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Barking Town Centre Masterplan

Barking, UK Client: Be First RIBA Stages – 0-1 c. 2,200 new homes - 60% private sale, 40% affordable c. 245,000 sqft commercial / retail Dates – 2018

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Our proposal for Barking Town Centre looked to reinvigorate and transform the area around Barking Station, delivering c. 2,200 new homes together with new commercial and social infrastructure all connected by over 2 hectares of new clean, green, accessible open spaces. A new high street serves as an urban cultural magnet, linking the existing civic centre and town squares to more isolated communities in the north. The scheme is characterised by a phased approach, with each plot bringing forward between 100 and 400 residential units within vibrant mixed use developments and landscaping. We considered the social infrastructure that is necessary to ensure that the potential economic benefits reach those most in need, so that no-one is left behind. Such intensification can only be successful if created through excellent place-making and through improved connectivity and surrounding environments. A new green spine, parallel to the high street, will connect public spaces and provide an improved retail offer. The new street layout is a loose grid that articulates more humanscale urban quarters complemented by green courtyard spaces, echoing the layout of exemplary town centres in London.

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The success of our feasibility studies is underpinned by our extensive experience of delivering projects. We constantly apply lessons learnt from our projects that are at more detailed design stages into our feasibility work, generating greater certainty on layout configurations, unit numbers and areas generated in our earlier stage work.

We have selected a number of our residential projects to present on the following pages which demonstrate how our early feasibility studies progress into high quality and viable projects.

Our track record in residential design quality is underpinned by our thorough understanding of the public realm and how the infrastructure of our cities works. We are able to analyse, develop and resolve schemes, juggling competing parameters and collaborating with multiple stakeholders, to successfully deliver exceptional housing across all tenures.

We believe that new residential projects should create a sense of place on a human scale; exploring opportunities for the application of craft in the making of buildings that are tailored to their context and the people that will live in them. Our growing residential team, has a wealth of experience and an ability to harness modern methods of construction to create elegant and innovative design solutions, which add value to our clients’ vision. We’re proud of our close working relationships and high volume of repeat business.

Ropemaker’s Walk

Greenwich, London, UK Client: Falconbrook 650 new homes Stage 0-2

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Ropemaker’s Walk is a key site within the wider Charlton Riverside masterplan. We developed proposals for 650 new homes, alongside active non-residential units at ground floor. The proposals respond sensitively to the existing neighbouring listed cottages by mirroring their arrangement within the development site. Movement and accessibility throughout the area is improved through the provision of a new vehicular road, as well as green and safe pedestrian and cycle routes. High quality landscape is integral to the proposals - provided through public open space at ground floor, and shared amenity space on podiums.

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Bells Gardens Estate

Southwark, London, UK Client: London Borough of Southwark 97 new homes 32 homes market sale; 65 homes social rent Stage 0-3 (in for planning)

WW+P have been thoughtful and considered in their approach and seamlessly understood the councils commitment and the needs and wishes of the local communities” James Cross, New Homes Delivery Team, Southwark Council Street view render

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The Southwark New Homes Programme aims to deliver 11,000 new council homes across the borough by 2043. At Bells Gardens Estate we worked closely with existing residents in line with Southwark’s ‘Charter of Principles’ for engagement. The Bells Gardens Estate project is one of the larger schemes within the programme. Currently in planning and due on site in May 2022, the proposal will deliver 97 new homes within three new-build blocks of 9, 7 and 5 storeys in height. Of the 97 homes, 32 are for market-sale tenure and 65 are for council-rent but the design is tenure-blind throughout. The scheme will also provide a purpose-built community centre to replace an existing facility, a small commercial unit, a new energy centre with communal ASHP systems to serve the new blocks and neighbouring sites, and significant landscaping including parking, playspace and the re-provision of an existing MUGA facility.

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Bacton Estate Phase 2

Gospel Oak, London, UK Client: London Borough of Camden

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Bacton Estate Phase 2 is located in Gospel Oak, North London. It is the second stage of multi-phase development for the London Borough of Camden to provide 300 homes for market sale, social rent and intermediate tenure as well as new public realm and commercial units with market-sale cross-subsidy of affordable housing re-provision following the demolition and decanting of existing social-rent homes. The key objectives are to intensify development within the existing masterplan consent to increase unit numbers and improve overall financial viability for the local authority following completion of earlier phases by others. Through improving the efficiency of the buildings we have achieved an increase in 24 units within the consented massing.

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The Loom Factory

Southwark, London, UK Client: Apex Developments RIBA Stages - 0-3 155 apartments

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The St James’ Road development will create new homes, new jobs and amenities for local residents. Local businesses will be supported through the re-provision of industrial and work space. These spaces will be opened up to add vibrancy to the area. Existing artists’ studios are re-provided on the ground floor to activate the public realm and enhance the area’s vibrant identity. The masterplan is permeable, allowing connectivity to the proposed Six Bridges Park. The new spacious podium courtyard allows for outdoor activity, complimentary to the use of the park for residents of the building. The residential development offers landscaped terraces, allowing the greenery to cascade down towards the park.

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PC World & B&M Old Kent Road

Southwark, London, UK Client: Southwark Council RIBA Stages - 0-3 Use: Circa 500 new homes and c. 5000msq non-residential

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As part of Southwark Council’s Old Kent Road regeneration programme, the scheme seeks to deliver high quality buildings with exemplary design, new council housing and commercial facilities which help revitalise the town centre. Providing new homes for social rent and private sale, and replace existing retail space, combined in innovative new and tall buildings. The proposal will make the most of the available space and ensure that the new homes come in different sizes to meet the needs of young people, families and the elderly. The development will be net zero carbon and reflecting the council’s commitment to be carbon neutral by 2030 will seek to minimise operational and embodied carbon emissions.

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Raleigh Gardens

Merton, London, UK Client: Merantun Developments Ltd Appointed RIBA Stages: 1-7 36 new homes Private Rental Sector March 2019 - ongoing

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A disused car park is transformed into 36 new homes for the Private Rental Sector at Raleigh Gardens, an urban block which complements the local surroundings and makes a positive contribution to the streetscape. An efficient floor plan layout maximised the value of this site for our client. The form of the building is broken into two elements, which step in height and plan, to provide visual interest along the street frontage, and to increase daylight to the neighbouring residential development.

We are very proud to have designed Merantun’s first PRS developments and to have set a high benchmark both in terms of residential design and sustainability.” Bea Young, Partner

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Sydenham, London, UK Client: Lewisham Homes

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Five high quality private homes replace a row of single storey garages on a Lewisham estate. Revenue raised from the sale of the terraced three bedroom homes will be reinvested in the Borough’s ‘New Homes Better Places’ programme. The scheme has been carefully designed to preserve the amenity of the neighbours, with no impact on privacy, outlook or sunlight. An innovative house plan provides high quality private amenity space on this constrained site.

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Spa Road

Bermondsey, London, UK Client: Hyde Housing Association / Rooff Ltd RIBA Stages - 0-7 48 apartments 50% Private Sale, 50% Social Rent Ground floor commercial and retail space - 856m2

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Spa Road demonstrates how to successfully knit a new mixed tenure development into an existing regeneration plan. By deliberately phasing construction, our client was able to benefit from a projected uplift in property values in this part of South London. Our high quality design proposal for this prominent plot within the wider Bermondsey Spa regeneration masterplan addressed several site constraints including the proximity of adjacent estate buildings, protected mature trees on Spa Road and resolved daylight, sunlight and privacy challenges with nearby properties. We were able to maximise unit numbers and value by adopting a single core approach.

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