Planning Consultants - Simply Planning; DLSL - Rights of Light Consultancy.
Our client approached T2S with the brief to develop ideas for this existing building on Upper Wickham Lane, Welling, which housed 2 commercial units on ground floor and 2 residential apartments on first floor.
The building is in disrepair and in need for some TLC! We knew that any proposal would need to integrate some form of employment floor space so the ground floor would remain largely intact.
At first floor, a lightwell is created in the middle of the plan for daylight. This creates interest and, in our view, is a feature worth retaining. This also helps the retention of the building by keeping the building footprint – thus reducing the extensions impact on the existing footings.
We felt a 2-storey extension was reasonable within this context and that this could be achieved using the same building fabric if the new envelope was light weight. This led us to decide that a new render extension, with a cladded roof, was the logical material choice as both materials could be used with lightweight or framed primary materials.
The client wanted to create an HMO type of development with single rooms sharing communal facilities. We relocated the staircase centrally so this was adjacent to the existing lightwell which allowed us to create 2 cluster either side. The rooms would be orientated to the main facades, with the lightwell used for some rooms and to allow daylight into the staircase.
Our proposed form was visible from 3 vantage points along Upper Wickham Lane and Springfield Road. A clear diagram was created with render and cladding to the roof. This returned on 3 sides so that the building read 3-dimensionlly. Render detailing was used to articulate the flanking wall – which whilst not on the corner – extends beyond the corner building thus creating a corner effect.
Planning consent should be forthcoming in summer 2024 with works completed in 2025.
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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