Client: Wimpey Homes Holdings Ltd, Metropolitan Housing Trust, Hyde Housing
Association, London Borough of Sutton
Location: Surrey, UK
Size: 35 hectares
Skills: Regeneration, Architecture, Masterplanning, Town Planning,
Landscape Architecture
Following a successful SRB bid and two years of extensive consultation and participation with residents, Broadway Malyan developed a masterplan and detailed design for the total regeneration of this 1960s ex-GLC estate comprising c.2000 dwellings.
The masterplan provided for the demolition of all high rise and concrete system built deck access blocks, with the exception of one block which had already been refurbished. Phased development has allowed all residents from the demolished blocks to be re-housed in new two or three storey houses and blocks of flats, thereby keeping the community together and avoiding double moves. First floor deck access was replaced with a conventional network of low speed streets built around a variety of communal amenity spaces. However, all flats and houses have private amenity space in the form of enclosed gardens.
Broadway Malyan provided all architectural, town planning and landscape design services for the new development, and at various stages have worked for the local authority, the RSL partners and two major contractors. The phased construction of this whole community regeneration commenced following a public inquiry and extensive testing of a pilot scheme. Broadway Malyan was subsequently commissioned by London Borough of Sutton to design a multi-use library, sports and community complex at the heart of the estate. The complex, known as the Phoenix Centre, integrates 15 different community uses and was opened in September 2004.
Our appointment was further extended when the residents of another 1960s block voted to join the regeneration, allowing the final phase of development to be redesigned to include an element of housing for sale on the enlarged site. At every stage Broadway Malyan added value through design, but also played an important role in securing funding through SRB bid, Housing Corporation Grant and Sports England.
Shortlisted for the Best Housing Led Regeneration Project Award at the Regeneration Awards 2005