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in the pipeline
DESIGNED BY Brimelow McSweeney commercial units and a ‘very good’
Architects for Dukelease Properties, the EcoHomes rating for the residential units are
scheme will provide a leisure centre, two achieved. Aluminium clad timber windows
new retail units and convert existing offices have been specified for the residential
on upper floors to residential development to improve the sustainability
accommodation. and maintenance of the building.
This retail-led regeneration project will
Terraced
provide 45 private and affordable flats
The existing building structure presented a
arranged around a landscaped roof court-
number of challenges for the project team.
Work has commenced on
yard. All of the flats have been designed to
It has undergone various extensions
the £7.6m remodelling of
maximise natural daylight by eliminating
throughout its life leading to a multi-level
north facing single aspect flats and
a large two-storey Marks
flat roof over the commercial unit to the
exploiting southern aspects – with most
& Spencer retail unit that
rear. This, along with the new transfer
offering dual aspect. The 1,345 sqm fitness
has been vacant for over
structure necessary for the residential
centre will be situated on the lower ground
development, has informed the terraced
three years on High Road
floor and the retail units, of 1,018 sqm and
nature of the new communal roof
in Wembley.
447 sqm in size, will be on the ground floor.
courtyard. The existing plant level roof will
Viability be transformed into quality external
With sustainability a major factor in the amenity space comprising hard landscape
fact file
project, the team developed a solution that materials and planting, including trees.
Client
would prevent the need to demolish and The previous rather drab brick rear
Dukelease Properties
rebuild, underpinning the project’s financial elevation of undercroft parking and a
viability, save time and cost, while loading bay had been an unwelcome back-
Contractor
maximising commercial value. Through drop to an otherwise well-ordered Victorian
Lancsville Construction
pushing the structural limits of the existing residential street. With the proposed service
Architect
building and adopting a lightweight metal bay for the new retail units being relocated
Brimelow McSweeney Architects
frame construction, a further three floors away from the rear elevation, safer access
M&E engineer have been added. for residents and uncompromised servicing
MTT Consulting Engineers Also incorporated into the design are of the retail units is ensured. The new
Structural engineer
Sedum roofs and water harvesting along active rear elevation will comprise modern
Capita Bobrowski
with other design features to help ensure a materials such as zinc standing seam and
‘very good’ BREEAM score for the coloured rainscreen cladding. a73
New life for
disused
retail unit
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