Housing Developments
We have a strong track record working with developers on new housing projects, providing strategic masterplanning services and sustainable housing design for both the private and social housing sectors. Our clients value our ability to assemble effective design teams to address key issues at the appropriate time and coordinate projects from inception to delivery.
We are experts in placemaking, with a passion for designing developments that enhance the lives of residents and deliver lasting value for communities. All our residential projects are designed to minimise energy use and reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
Our robust understanding of planning policy enables us to effectively address potential objectors’ concerns and avoid difficult negotiations with local authority planning departments, making the process of achieving consent as efficient as possible.
Specialist skills
- Community consultations.
- Stakeholder collaboration.
- Advising on and assembling relevant sub-consultant teams as required, such as ecologists, site investigations, noise impact assessments, landscaping, tree surveys and flood risk assessments.
- Place-based design approach following the Place Principal.
- Design to Housing for Varying Needs.
- Building remodelling and refurbishment.
- Design of sustainable and energy efficient buildings, including net zero carbon, carbon negative and passive house principals. Materials are selected using the BRE Green Guide to Specification and renewable energy technologies are included where possible.
Projects include
- Transforming the former Craigmount Nursing Home in St Andrews into six luxury two and three-bedroom apartments for Eastacre, each carrying a price tag of over £1M.
- Design of two contemporary detached houses for Solera Associates on a rarely available plot of land on Rockfield Street in Dundee’s West End.
- Foggyley Gardens - development of 18 semi-detached mid-market homes for Strathmore Homes Ltd on a brownfield site in Lochee, Dundee.
- Planning approval for a 35-house development scheme transforming a derelict former workshop and disused open space at Barns of Claverhouse.
- Masterplan for 18 houses in Kinloch Rannoch for Rannoch Community Trust and Dunalastair Estate.
- Masterplan for 22 serviced plots for Dulnain Bridge Community Development Trust/Reidhaven Trust for a site in an ancient woodland setting.