NEW BROCHURE TEMPLATE draft

RESIDENTIAL PORTFOLIO

RUGBY HOUSING IN THE SETTING OF A
COTON PARK GRADE II* LISTED BUILDING

Coton Park Estate contains The sketch view shows The Group prepared a
a late C18 country house, Coton House with the master plan, indicative
listed Grade II*, attributed new parterre garden in scheme and restoration
to architect Samuel Wyatt, the foreground, and the proposals as a basis for
with its former Stables and converted former stable outline planning and listed
other estate buildings. block in the background. building applications on
The new housing layout has behalf of the landowner,
The estate was used as been based on the pattern and the detail design to
a training centre in the of paths and remnants of discharge reserved matters
late C20 and the house gardens and landscaping and planning conditions for
was severely damaged shown on historic maps, the joint developers.
by fire. The Group was including the walled garden. The scheme on the
subsequently commissioned The mature planting, surrounding land provides
as architects for the including specimen trees some eighty new and
restoration of the mansion and a topiary garden converted homes designed
and stables and the creation provide focal points in the to harmonise with the
of a new estate village in layout and screen the house historic buildings and
the surrounding parkland. from the new development. mature landscape.

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RUGBY
COTON PARK

HOUSING IN THE SETTING OF A
GRADE II* LISTED BUILDING

Coton House was one of the fabric of the house. has replaced the demolished
important country houses The modern structures training centre buildings.
in Warwickshire, set in have been demolished and
attractive park-lands and the derelict mansion, now A dairy and game larder
gardens outside the village restored and converted, remain within the grounds;
of Churchover. The house provides a spacious and both have been repaired
dates from 1784. elegant family dwelling. and the dairy has been
The northern drive has extended and converted
The construction of the been re-instated with new to a single dwelling. The
M6 motorway and the entrance gates. new housing layout follows
conversion of the house the pattern of the original
and stables into a training The nineteenth century gardens and the surviving
centre with extensive new stable block has been features, such as the walled
development compromised restored and converted into garden and topiary garden
the building and its setting. individual dwellings and have been integrated into
More recently a major fire forms a focal point in a new the mater-plan for the
destroyed much of the residential development that estate.

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STROUD
COTSWOLD CHASE

VILLAGE HOUSING

This small development in small courts. The The grain of the
of family dwellings was development is designed development is regular
designed by the Group for in its elevational treatment to make best use of the
CALA Homes to make good and detail to integrate with configuration of the site
use of brownfield land close the traditional vernacular but the formality is reduced
to the settlement boundary of Cotswold town and by restricting the length of
of the town. village houses through the highway to the minimum
The scheme consists of simplicity of style, modest and providing a series of
twenty-six houses in a proportions of window and courtyards. The layout is
layout that minimises the door openings, and the use further softened by the use
area of adoptable highway of stone in facades and of traditional stone walls,
and groups the dwellings boundary walls. trees and hedgerows.

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SHREWSBURY
FORMER ROYAL HOSPITAL

FAMILY HOUSING

The Group designed this includes a landscaped children’s play area. Beyond
residential development public amenity space to the frontage, the dwellings
for CALA Homes on mirror the frontage on the are grouped in a pattern of
land formally part of the opposite side of Mytton courtyards and the design
Shrewsbury Royal Hospital Oak Road and enhance objective has been to
site. The scheme was the the setting of Mytton maximise the use of shared
winner of a competitive bid Villa, a Grade II statutorily surfaces to provide a sense
managed by the Homes listed building. The larger of intimacy in the spaces
& Communities Agency in houses are arranged to between buildings, give
which design was a material define this open space priority to pedestrians and
consideration. and provide surveillance of cyclists, and provide a high
The layout for 112 dwellings the pedestrian routes and degree of traffic calming.

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RUGBY
GATEWAY

RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT

The Group designed the The first phase is designed The second phase is
detailed residential layouts, around a formal square of designed as a more informal
assisted in discharging town houses that provides grouping of dwellings
the reserved matters and a focal point for the around the existing mature
produced the production development. The square trees. In this phase, the
drawings for CALA Homes is part of a road pattern mature trees surrounding
for the first two residential designed to manage the the development provide
phases of the established substantial gradients on focal points and contribute
master-plan for the Gateway a sloping site. The design to a woodland setting.
Rugby development. objective of this phase is
The two phases together to provide a more formal
provide 474 dwellings. layout, including terraces.

RESIDENTIAL PORTFOLIO | COTON PARK, RUGBY 10

DERBY
FORMER ROYAL INFIRMARY

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