New Social Housing Scheme And Community Facility

Sprunt have submitted a planning application to London Borough of Lewisham for a new sustainable housing scheme with family centre and community facilities in Deptford, south-east London.

Specialists in urban and property renewal, London-based architects Sprunt have submitted a planning application to London Borough of Lewisham for a new sustainable housing scheme with family centre and community facilities in Deptford, south-east London.

The Evelyn Street site, which backs on to Deptford Park, was created through bomb damage in the Second World War.

Having identified its development potential, Sprunt approached, and subsequently has been working in close partnership with, London and Quadrant Housing Trust and the London Borough of Lewisham to create a new mixed-use development that includes 29 flats for social rent and a further eight for shared ownership.

The flats are a mix of one, two and three-bedroom units.

Sprunt's modern innovative design incorporates vertical glazed 'pods' on the front elevation.

The pods are designed to reduce the traffic noise and maximise the daylight intake and thermal performance.

The rear of the development, which overlooks the park, offers a completely different feel with an expressed timber structure forming large balconies to all the flats.

The scheme creates an environmental barrier between the busy main road and the community facilities and park behind.

It also includes a new mixed-use community facility with family centre to the ground floor and a Sports Council-funded sports changing facility on the upper floor.

"The site presents a great opportunity to create an imaginative community housing development on what was underused land left over from bomb damage and we expect to achieve a very high sustainability rating for the project," commented Ken Hughes, director at Sprunt.

"It also demonstrates the importance of working in close partnerships with a wide range of different agencies to deliver a mixed-use regeneration scheme of this type." About Sprunt Established in 1988, the company is responsible for such landmarks as the remodelled King's Cross Estate and the new Monteith Estate in Tower Hamlets and has pioneered many procedures now considered best practice in resident consultation.

Other highly-acclaimed community renewal projects include Pepys Estate, Stonebridge HAT, and Poplar HARCA, three new city learning centers at Stockwell Park, Acland Burghley and Forest Hill schools and the recently refurbished Albany Theatre in Lewisham.

At the same time, the company's strong consultancy arm is providing on-going strategic support to Lambeth, managing its education capital programme, Cable and Wireless, maintaining an up to date plans database of all their buildings in the UK and Camden, providing a computerised workflow management system for all housing capital projects.

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