The Blackdown Hills Assisted Living scheme is built around a highly reputable, family-owned care home and dementia care establishment near the Blackdown Hills in Surrey. Our client wanted to explore options for adding new assisted living retirement accommodation to their well established care home. Therefore we carried out a feasibility study for placing the assisted … Continued
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 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
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
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
Our longstanding client Audley Villages purchased a 20-acre site for a new care community in Scarcroft. The site, some 8 miles north of Leeds in Yorkshire, was once the home of N-Power’s headquarters. The Challenge Following acquisition of the site, Audley asked us to design a new Integrated Retirement Community (IRC) for them. This was … Continued
Gaunt Francis Architects designed a new care community on Fairmile Lane, Cobham, for Audley Villages. The brief called for a small-scale care-led development with a variety of accommodation to allow older people to lead a fulfilled retirement. The site lies within walking distance to Cobham town centre, nestling between gated estates with large private homes … Continued
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, an established 2 million sq. ft. mixed development. Blythe … Continued
Set within the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, the Sunningdale site is in the Greenbelt. It contains a Grade II listed mansion (Northcote House) within a Grade II Registered Park and Garden. Audley Villages commissioned Gaunt Francis Architects to prepare designs for a new care community to supplement Audley’s growing portfolio. Our proposals build … Continued
Gaunt Francis Architects has been a leading voice in design for retirement care communities since 2005, together with long-term client Audley Villages. We were proud therefore to be trusted with this scheme in 2017, when Audley Group launched their idea for a new Care Community concept, to be developed by their sister company Mayfield Villages. … Continued
