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Westgate Plaza Hotel | Cardiff

5th November 2024

By Toby Adam

We designed a concept for the Westgate Plaza Hotel, a significant new-build leisure project in the centre of Cardiff. The brief was to meet the ‘Hampton by Hilton’ brand requirements, where function meets comfort, whilst also delivering development value. Our client was local developer Rightacres in combination the Welsh Rugby Union as landowner. The feasibility … Continued

Integrated Retirement Community for Untold | Newport Shropshire

5th November 2024

By Toby Adam

How to make retirement housing affordable and accessible to more people has interested us since our 2005 scheme for Clevedon. Untold Living asked us to review a previously consented scheme for a 133-dwelling Integrated Retirement Community on a vacant site adjacent to a new housing estate in Newport, Shropshire. This is not an area with … Continued

Sovereign Harbour | Eastbourne

29th October 2024

By Toby Adam

Sovereign Harbour sits to the north of Eastbourne town centre and was a originally a series of gravel pits and ponds on an area of shingle known locally as the ‘Crumbles’. Following ideas in the late sixties about the potential for housing on the site, development eventually began in the 1980s. Specifically, work started on … Continued

Blackdown Hills Assisted Living | Somerset

12th June 2024

By Toby Adam

We carried out a feasibility study and scheme design for new assisted living retirement accommodation for an established family-owned care home near the Blackdown Hills in the South West. The owners wanted to add an extra offer to their existing highly reputable care home and dementia care establishment. We provided sector-specific advice and option appraisals … Continued

Parkgate Hotel | Cardiff

9th July 2021

By Toby Adam

Parkgate Hotel was a real opportunity to do the things that matter to us. Rescuing unloved and empty buildings. Working with enthusiastic and committed clients. Contributing to our cities with high quality design. We were delighted then when Rightacres asked us in 2017 to design a new 4* hotel in Cardiff city centre. They wanted … Continued

Cardigan Memorial Hospital | Ceridigion

9th July 2021

By Toby Adam

Cardigan – A Rich History Cardigan Memorial Hospital in Ceredigion proposes the demolition of existing hospital buildings, but retention of the remaining parts of the Nash-designed Priory House- an unlisted heritage asset dating from 1792. We originally proposed 34 new one-bed dwellings for older people to take the place of the demolished buildings, alongside a … Continued

Glasfryn | Powys

15th January 2021

By Toby Adam

Background The remote village of Llangynidr lies about 9 miles south-east of Brecon. The village has upper and lower parts, divided by the original drovers road; Cwm Crawnon. The river Usk flows past the north of the village and the Brecon & Abergavenny canal runs through its centre. Overall, this is a very picturesque part … Continued

Mayfield | Hove

18th May 2020

By Toby Adam

This new mid-market care community for Mayfield Villages was granted planning permission in 2020. It forms part of a wider masterplan for the Sackville Road site in Hove. The mid-market care community will stand alongside Build to Rent apartments developed by MODA, therefore creating a unique multi-generational living scheme. GFA are architects for the £60m … Continued

Scarcroft Park | Yorkshire

3rd March 2020

By Toby Adam

We successfully gained planning consent for a new care community of 172 retirement homes in the village of Scarcroft, some eight miles north of Leeds in Yorkshire. The 20-acre site had been the location of N-Power’s headquarters. The scheme is now complete, and the new owners have shared their experiences and joy at embracing the … Continued

Blythe Valley Care Home | Solihull

2nd September 2019

By Toby Adam

Octopus Real Estate is part of the Octopus Group and is a leading UK specialist real estate investor. They commissioned Gaunt Francis Architects to prepare designs for this new care home in Blythe Valley. The scheme forms a key part of the new Blythe Valley Park. This is an established 2 million sq. ft. mixed … Continued

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