Planning consultant - Coldrife
This existing building sits on a prominent corner between Fulham Road and Harwood Road in the heart of West London, yards away from Fulham Broadway station and Stamford Bridge.
It is a beautifully detailed structure, with an ornate decorated façade using a mix of brick and stone cladding. This character and grandeur is recognised in the Conservation area which states that the building is locally listed building.
Our client wanted us to develop proposals to extend the building on the upper floors. Due to the prominence of the corner, and the areas retail history, we knew any proposals would need to focus on the upper floors whilst retaining the Commercial floor space currently occupied by an Estate Agent on the ground floor.
Fulham town hall exists along Harwood Road to the east. The existing building on our site has a tiered design which exposes the flank wall to the town hall. This is contrary to most traditional grand facades, where only the frontage is celebrated. Our design proposed a fully infilled the roof profile, extending the existing language, creating a continuous façade along 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th floor.
Once we established the form, we needed to achieve a proportionately correct window pattern which seamlessly tied the new extension into the existing structure. Retaining as much of the existing geometry was important, with the entrances creating a mid-point which acted as a mirror for the new geometry.
The proposals will realise 9 new residential apartments, retaining the commercial space on ground floor. We expect works to begin on-site towards the end of 2024.
TootingWe inherited a Planning consent for 29 residential apartments and circa 5,000ft2 of commercial floor space in a modern new build development on Tooting High Street, Wandsworth, South London. The client wanted us to develop the technical design based on a JCT Traditional form of contract, delivering the works through to conpletion. Our technical information has been generated using Vectorworks 3-d BIM software, facilitating the production of the tender documents for a construction start date of February 2024.
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The CourtyardGloucester Avenue is a complex collection of buildings configured in a courtyard arrangement in North London. The site sits in the heart of the Primrose Hill conservation area and straddles the North Western Trainline into Euston Station. Once planning consent was sought, the works were constructed on-site to deliver 39 residential apartments, 1 detached house, and just over 8000 sqft of Commercial B1(a) floor space.
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Sulivan RoadThe works involved the refurbishment and extension of an existing building in Fulham; adjacent to the Hurlingham club and within close proximity to the Thames. 14 apartments were created, with additional commercial space to the rear, whilst the existing Commercial tenant, and top floor residential tenants, continued to operate and reside in the building. The resultant facade works are a striking Architectural solution to a highly constrained but sought after property.
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New MaldenThe client's brief was to develop the upper floors whilst retaining the existing Commercial space on ground floor. Planning permission is sought for 9 residential apartments within a modern building over 5 stories. The intention is to occupy the commercial space before the rest of the development is completed so the team has had to factor this into the design. The existing first floor, roofs, structure and slab will be removed; with the existing external walls on ground floor retained creating the Commercial demise. This allows for a cleaner phasing of the construction works.
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