The development is designed to cater for all aspects of its residents’ lives. Care services include 24-hour on-call support, housekeeping, property maintenance teams and concierge services, with future plans including the addition of a GP surgery on-site.

The aesthetic design was carefully engineered using a palette of multiple external materials whilst large glazed areas also needed careful structural design.

The focal point of the development is a central facilities building, which boasts a stunning glazed glulam-framed bar and restaurant with dramatic canopy and roof overhang.

Ground conditions on the site were extremely variable and this caused challenges in identifying locations where soakaways would work effectively. Statutory services provision was also poor and to connect surface water to public sewers would have required a very long connection and exposure to significant network upgrade costs.

The project team extensively probed the site to pinpoint suitable soakaway locations, avoiding expensive attenuation crates and network upgrades whilst ensuring all scheme layouts worked with these chosen locations. In some parts of the site, natural swales and informal wetlands were used to produce a pragmatic risk-based design which provided significant cost savings to the client.

Careful cut/fill modelling was used to manage the earth movements to save and reuse as much site material as possible, reducing the project’s environmental impact and saving our client money. This process involved collaboration with a number of different stakeholders, including the architect, main contractor, civils contractor and landscape contractor.

In 2019, the development was awarded a silver medal at the WhatHouse? Awards in the category for Best Retirement Development.