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
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
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
