Housing Tue, Mar 22, 2016 5:25 PM
Pollard Thomas Edwards architects (PTEa) working for Countryside Properties and Newlon has fought off competition from AHMM and Maccreanor Lavington architects working for Laing O’Rourke and Keepmoat to regenerate the 1960s Alma Estate, in Ponders End in the London Borough of Enfield.
The winning design reintegrates the Alma Estate with the surrounding neighbourhood by creating a clear and legible layout of apartment blocks and family houses with private gardens, the discreet incorporation of car parking; and by creating a new linking road with Scotland Green Road. The proposed scheme will create around 794 new homes.
The design responds to a need to address the disjoined layout, inactive streetscapes and increasing isolation of the estate from the surrounding neighbourhood. PTEa have successfully created a design that reintegrates the estate by reinforcing historic routes through the site, re-establishes traditional streetscapes while adding both tall buildings and private family homes to create a positive sense of place.
The design is focused around four key areas:
At the heart of the new development PTEa have created two new significant landscaped green spaces. Creating links between South Street and Napier Street, they will be a valuable amenity, drawing together all residents. ‘The Green’ will include soft landscaped areas, doorstep play, paved routes and informal seating. As well as providing necessary open space for the surrounding apartment blocks, the Green will act as a hub linking the Oasis Academy, Alma Primary School, new retail units and the wider neighbourhood beyond.
The PTEa design pays great attention to themes of accessibility and inclusivity. All new homes feature either a private garden or a large balcony (currently, the majority of existing residents do not have any private outdoor space). Car parking has been radically re-thought, with cars removed from the street and into parking courtyards freeing up the space for public amenity.
Materials throughout the regenerated estate will be predominantly brick with metal-pitched roofs, providing consistency, blending in with the surrounding neighbourhood and easy to maintain. All homes will be designed to Lifetime Homes standards and all other requirements of the LHDG.
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