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ADAM Architecture Good Village Growth

O CTO BER 2026 ADAM ARCHI T ECT URE

October 2026 ADAM Architecture

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Contents

Introduction Introduction

Site Assessment

Enquiry by Design

Characterisation Assessment

Design Codes

Masterplans

Design Quality Management

Architecture

ADAM Architecture Case Studies Luzborough, Romsey, Hampshire

Burghfield Common & Theale Village, Berkshire

Fortescue Fields, Norton St Philip, Somerset

Trowse Newton, Norfolk

Abbots Ripton, Ramsey Estate, Cambridgeshire

Acton Turville, Gloucestershire

Whielden Street, Buckinghamshire

Gypsey Mead , Fyfield, Essex

The Balk, Slingsby, Yorkshire

Little Stocks Close, Kinlet, Shropshire

Tilletts Lane, Warnham, West Sussex

Sandy Lane, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire

Cecil Square, Stamford, Lincolnshire

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Introduction The question of how to grow a village well has been at the heart of ADAM Architecture's urbanism practice for many years. A founding principle of ADAM's work is to create architecture that sits seamlessly within the natural environment adding to, rather than subtracting from, the beauty and vitality of the countryside. At the same time, we aim to create vital, living places where people can enjoy happier, healthier lives. Villages are at the foundation of rural life yet they are most vulnerable to unsympathetic expansion. The tight core of traditional villages – often centred around a high street, market-place, churchyard or village green – with a wide range of street-fronting architecture, and containing a mix of uses, is seldom replicated in village extensions. Instead, the picturesque multi-functional village core is all too often ringed with a succession of housing estates often bearing little reference to local materials and building styles. Equally, as these single-use estates push outwards in multiple onion rings, they become car-dependent and place strain on the traditional street network and limited parking within the historic centre. Centrally located shops and services can begin to lose custom as residents become more cardependant and peripheral residential development is often followed by the development of edge-of-town shopping and servicing. Many of ADAM’s clients have resisted this pattern of growth and the hollowing out that often follows. Instead, they have prioritised placemaking with the aim of maintaining the vitality of rural settlements – through delivering housing of all types and tenures to meet local needs; incorporating local amenities and embedding strenuously observed, connected masterplans which are walkable in their design so that villages are enabled to grow well. Critically, through our well-established design briefing and inception process, the ADAM team ensures that new village extensions respond to: • local and specific housing needs • the landscape setting • local materials and architectural precedents

Many years of experience of translating aspiration into built form underpins ADAM’s masterplanning and architecture, so that these requirements are rendered into development that is sympathetic to local character, whilst meeting the aspirations of local and new residents and businesses. The firm’s experience embraces working at all levels of scale delivering many thousands of homes and mixed uses with a range of partners including landowners; master developers; bespoke and volume housebuilders and RSLs (registered social landlords). Our experience shows that well-designed urbanism is equally appreciated by residents of all tenures, whose interest is in making a home within a stable, well-designed neighbourhood where life can be lived healthily and conveniently. Recent research undertaken with Bidwells Meeting the Housing Challenge shows that homes designed in this way often retain their value through second-hand and subsequent sales, making them a solid investment for the homeowner. As residents become more discerning than ever before about the places where they live, the viability of development becomes more and more challenging. ADAM’s experience shows that high-quality masterplanning, informed by local communities and stakeholders, can enable planning permission to be acquired more rapidly, with local support. Equally, a well-conceived masterplan will optimise the use of land, often yielding more development than standard approaches with added value elements optimised. This can be assisted by deploying integrated spatial modelling. ADAM’s PLACE LOGIC technology combines spatial data analysis for connectivity, walkability and character areas along with urban design expertise, to review evolving masterplans to shape more successful, wellfunctioning places that build long-term value and use land well. To develop the sustainable, vibrant places that people want to live in we need to encourage places that put people, place and a connection with the natural environment at their heart. ADAM has developed a range of design tools to support the development and delivery of places that are well integrated into their rural context, responsive to local needs and demand, and to materials, landscape setting and building tradition.

• the need to embed healthy lifestyles through walkability, access to open space and to recreation • opportunities to connect to nature, to incorporate sustainable drainage and energy sources • local servicing and community needs

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SIT E AS S ES S ME NT

D ESIGN QUAL ITY MAN AGE ME N T

Through the application of ADAM’s bespoke spatial modelling technology, PLACE LOGIC (placelogic.org.uk), the suitability of sites for development and potential site capacity can be rapidly assessed. Geospatial analyses can then support representations and planning applications.

ADAM’s delivery experience ensures that the project vision is maintained throughout the delivery phase.

ENQU I RY BY D ESI G N

The firm has helped develop the practice of using design workshops to engage intensively with communities, stakeholders and the scheme context to iterate well-conceived, responsive project briefs. CHA RACT ER ISAT I ON ASSESSM E NT

Focusing on landscape and urban precedents, characterisation studies analyse local identity through visual assessment, describing urban form and character in terms of the architectural language, landscape form, street and building scale, proportion, materials and local planting palettes most often seen. DES I GN C O D ES

ADAM has pioneered the use of non-stylistic design coding and we also produce detailed pattern books. The framework is always vision-centred, place specific, simple, objective, binding; offering a variable level of control (relative to client aspiration). A successful design code promotes the permanence of high quality street and public realm design. It embeds legible street hierarchies and identifies mixed uses in places that enable viability, while enabling building design to be consistent, appropriately proportioned, detailed and specified. However, the design code should be sufficiently flexible to meet housebuilder requirements and changing demand over time. MAST ER P LA N S

ADAM’s extensive experience of masterplanning is based on a deep knowledge of the level of detail required at each project stage to meet planning and commercial requirements. This experience is coupled with the technological capability of PLACE LOGIC to functionally test masterplans at key stages in design development.

ARC HITECTURE

The firm’s extensive experience of designing and delivering homes across the UK and internationally informs our practice, producing highly buildable schemes that embrace sustainability requirements whilst maintaining their strongly domestic, traditional character adapted to local precedents and materials. Above all, ADAM’s work embraces the concept of a living tradition, whereby traditional design principles adapt themselves in response to the needs of each generation; walkable neighbourhoods prioritise pedestrians and cyclists over cars, and the vocabulary of the architecture and public realm respects the scale, materials, proportions and character of the surrounding area. The following pages show examples of smaller housing developments which draw on many of the lessons learned on larger-scale developments for the Duchy of Cornwall estate, at Poundbury, an extension to Dorchester and, more recently, at Nansledan, an extension to Newquay, where the principles continue to be supported wholeheartedly by the current Duke, by the local community and by the UK government, which regularly cites it as a national exemplar of tradition. C OMME RC IAL VALUE

Successful village growth requires a careful balance between responding to local character, design quality, and architectural detail, while also delivering commercially viable, sustainable places. ADAM Architecture understands this balance and has demonstrated it through numerous projects across the United Kingdom. By working closely with landowners and long-term stewards, we help ensure that village extensions are sensitive to their context, enhance local character, and create enduring social, environmental, and commercial value.

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"Above all, ADAM’s work embraces the concept of a living tradition, whereby traditional design principles adapt themselves in response to the needs of each generation..."

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Luzborough, Romsey, Hampshire Client:

The Ashfield Estate, Morrish Builders

Developer:

Wyatt Homes

Scheme:

56 homes

Tenure mix:

Private and affordable housing

Typologies:

Mews properties, semi-detached, and detached homes

Mixed-use:

No (residential-led development)

Site area:

2.4ha

Role:

Executive architect

Working with: New Masterplanning Status:

Completed in 2019

The Ashfield Estate wanted to create a development in which it could take pride, without surrendering control to volume housebuilders, land dealers or planning consultants. The estate took advice from engineers, ecologists, planners, architects, traffic consultants, landscape architects and also from the people who would build the place. The development includes 56 homes on a 2.4 hectare site, built by three local housebuilders who formed the Ashfield Partnership with the Ashfield Estate. The scheme shows how traditional building techniques can be successfully adapted in the future. It also demonstrates how a committed landowner, working with developers with commitment to the ultimate product, can produce a scheme that both produces new homes and a new place reflecting the character and history of the location and interpreting this in a contemporary way.

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The Brooks, Burghfield Common & Ochre Meadows, Theale, Berkshire Client:

The Englefield Estate

Developer:

Croudace Homes

Scheme:

The Brooks: 100 homes Ochre Meadows: 105 homes

Tenure mix:

Private and affordable housing

Typologies:

Flats, semi-detached, and detached homes

Mixed-use:

No (residential-led development)

Site area:

Burghfield: 4.2 ha Theale: 7.2 ha

Role:

Masterplanner, architect, design code

Working with: Landscape Lockhart Garratt, Savills Planning and Aecom Transport Status:

Under construction

A major landowner development programme of high-quality traditional housing, seamlessly integrated into its surroundings.

The steep topography of the site has been utilised to allow for higher density, in keeping with surrounding neighbourhoods, and the material palette was selected to reflect the local vernacular. Each of the five neighbourhoods has unique features to promote visual variety, but all employ brick, stonework, wooden windows and doors, as well as decorated flashing on bay windows, to echo the overall style of the existing domestic buildings on the Englefield Estate. The site overlooks an area of ancient woodland which provides a haven for wildlife. New wildflower meadows, bird and bat boxes, and the preservation and enhancement of existing hedgerows, will greatly enhance local biodiversity. A network of streets, footpaths and cycleways also promotes and embeds sustainable and active travel within the area. It is hoped that the scheme will inspire other legacy landowners to develop new housing that builds on the history and identity of surrounding communities and contributes to improving national housebuilding standards.

Mixing housing types and tenures on a natural extension to Burghfield Common (The Brooks), the scheme creates a desirable place to live. It consists of 100 houses (of which around 40% are affordable) neatly interwoven with thoughtful landscaping, open space and play areas. The landowner, the Englefield Estate, is one of Britain’s last fully intact estate villages, and the scheme is part of its wider ambition to create a meaningful legacy by providing beautiful homes that will endure. The developer was selected for the compelling vision they had for the site, rather than for being the highest bidder. The partnership agreement requires that all design work is done in line with ADAM Architecture plans and that specific standards are maintained by all future homeowners. We maintain a strong creative and collaborative relationship with the estate and attend monthly site meetings to monitor progress. The estate is now bringing forward a second scheme at Theale (Ochre Meadows) following the same model.

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Fortescue Fields, Norton St Philip, Somerset Client:

Lochailort Investments Ltd; Bloor Homes

Scheme:

51 homes plus commercial space

Tenure mix:

37 private homes 14 affordable homes

Typologies:

Family housing, flats, retirement housing

Mixed-use: Village shop, commercial space, retirement living Site area:

1.8 ha

Role:

Masterplanners and executive architect

Working with: Nicholas Pearson Status:

Completed in 2013

ADAM, on behalf of the client, sought to deliver a highquality residential extension to one of the most attractive villages in the Somerset hills, redeveloping a former derelict chicken processing site. The scheme was designed to reflect and enhance the traditional character of the village through the use of natural stone and locally sourced materials, creating a cohesive and contextually responsive place. The development provided a mix of family homes, apartments and retirement units, alongside additional facilities including a new village shop, commercial spaces and a landmark public building. Delivered on a 1.8 ha site and completed in 2013, the project was brought forward for Lochailort Investments Ltd and Bloor Homes, with ADAM acting as masterplanner and architect in collaboration with Nicholas Pearson Associates. The scheme was recognised for its design quality with the Sunday Times British Home Award in 2015.

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Trowse Newton, Norfolk Client:

Crown Point Estate

Builder:

Hopkins Homes

Scheme:

76 homes plus community facilities

Tenure mix:

Private and affordable housing

Typologies: Family housing, apartments/flats, community facilities Site area:

1.8 ha

Role:

Masterplanner and executive architect

Status:

Completed in 2003

ADAM, on behalf of the client, sought to deliver a masterplan for a 12-acre site in Trowse Newton, providing 76 new homes and community facilities within an established 19th-century model village. The proposals were carefully designed to conserve and enhance the historic setting, sympathetically integrating new development with the existing village character. The scheme was structured around a distinctive crescent terminating the village street, incorporating the existing pub and enclosing a new village green as a focal point for community activity. Key buildings, including a pair of red brick houses with Dutch gables, defined the centre of the crescent and framed routes to a main square and children’s play area, reinforcing legibility and sense of place.

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Abbots Ripton, Ramsey Estate, Cambridgeshire Client:

The Abbotts Ripton and Ramsey Estates

Scheme:

163 homes

Role:

Context and capacity analysis and project inception; conceptual analysis; illustrative masterplan; heritage condition and reuse survey

Co-consultants:

Bidwells

Status:

Early stage viability and planning assessment

The Abbots Ripton and Ramsey Estate lies to the north of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. The village of Abbots Ripton is home to the 18th-century Abbots Ripton Hall, with its estate totalling some 6,000 acres. Abbots Ripton Hall is a Grade II-listed building that was built on the site of the old manor house. In the 1800s the estate belonged to the Rooper family and is now the seat of John Fellowes, 4th Baron De Ramsey. The initial Bidwells study for the estate has highlighted four residential sites for development, which includes a site in Abbots Ripton, a further site in Ramsey and two in Ramsey Forty Foot.

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Abbots Ripton, Ramsey Estate, Cambridgeshire As advisors to the Ramsey Estate, ADAM Architecture prepared an initial concept and feasibility assessment for the estate's landholdings to support the long-term growth of Abbots Ripton and surrounding farm hamlets. The review included scenario planning for the land holding and the creation of an illustrative masterplan. It also assessed the state, condition and appropriateness of buildings that might be retained while considering how the site fits into its context and how new buildings could be sensitively and appropriately configured.

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Hollybush & Luckington Road, Acton Turville, Badminton Estate, Gloucestershire

Scheme:

29 Units (Hollybush) 50 (Luckington Road)

Site:

2.4 ha (Hollybush) 4.1 ha (Luckington Road)

Role:

Masterplanner and architect

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Pre-planning

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The Badminton Estate engaged ADAM Architecture to create a sensitive extension to Acton Turville, working as closely as possible with the local community to choose the most appropriate sites and to refine a brief that responds to the needs of existing residents. The proposals form a comprehensive vision for village growth, comprising the redevelopment of the Hollybush Farm complex alongside the creation of a new neighbourhood at Luckington Road. The Luckington Road site is capable of delivering approximately 50 dwellings arranged around a network of streets that offers much needed permeability within the settlement, strengthening links to the village, school and surrounding countryside while supporting local housing needs including green infrastructure and public open space. The Estate is keen to ensure that its rich architectural traditions are preserved and extended through both developments, with form, character, scale, detail, materials and colours responding to the established character of the village, enabling these new homes to be worthy additions to the fine architecture that the Estate has created since its inception. The consultant team has worked openly with the local community from the outset to ensure that this vision is brought to fruition, embracing new ways of engaging with local housebuilders to control each stage of the project and to ensure that the approach developed through the planning process is delivered in fine detail.

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WHIE LDE N STR E ET, A ME RS HA M O LD TOWN, ADAM B UCKI ARCHI NG HAM T ECT SHI URE RE

Whielden Street, Amersham Old Town, Buckinghamshire ADAM, on behalf of the client, sought to deliver up to 45 new homes, including 50% affordable housing, to meet local needs and support a balanced, inclusive community. The site, in single ownership and immediately available, was identified as capable of contributing to Buckinghamshire’s short-term housing supply while completing the southeast edge of Amersham Old Town. The proposals adopted a landscape-led, placemaking approach, responding to the site’s topography, heritage, and Green Belt context to create a distinctive extension that integrates with the Conservation Area and surrounding development. The scheme prioritised walkability and connectivity, enhancing pedestrian and cycle routes and linking to nearby services and public transport.

Proposed vegetated belt along the north-western boundary to filter views to Whielden Street, enhancing existing off-site planting along the road embankments.

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Proposed vegetated belt and native hedgerow along the south-eastern boundary, including to the rear and outside the gardens of proposed properties, to enhance the existing planting along the A413 embankments.

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Proposed attenuation basin to mitigate runoff flooding, with opportunities for placemaking such as the integration of a viewing area & ecological enhancement.

PRoW access to be retained. Paths through site to be formalised & enhanced.

A mix of housing types and tenures supported local demand, while building heights, scale and materials were carefully controlled to respect heritage assets and townscape character. The development incorporated green infrastructure, public open space, biodiversity enhancements, and Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), promoting sustainable living and delivering measurable environmental benefits alongside a strong sense of place.

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S K ETC H P E RS P ECTIVE O F GYPS EY M EAD , FYFI ELD, ESSEX

Gypsey Mead , Fyfield, Essex ADAM, on behalf of the client, sought to deliver a well-designed, sustainable development prioritising placemaking and high-quality homes. The masterplan integrated the new development with the existing village of Fyfield, responding to the local character, landscape and heritage while creating a distinct sense of place through varied public and private spaces.

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The design promoted walkability, permeability and reduced car dominance, with safe, overlooked streets. Existing trees and hedgerows were retained and enhanced. A mix of housing types and tenures supported an inclusive community, with adaptable homes and sustainable design measures across transport, energy, water and materials.

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The Balk, Slingsby, Yorkshire Client:

Castle Howard Estate

Scheme:

26 Passivhaus standard homes with integrated green space

Site area:

1.13 ha

Role:

Masterplanner/architect

Status:

Reserved matters approved 2024

ADAM was appointed in 2022 to prepare a Reserved Matters Application for 26 dwellings on an infill site in Slingsby with an extant outline consent. The masterplan and proposed residential buildings follow the traditional village principles of Slingsby in particular but also relate to other estate villages in the vicinity. The Castle Howard Estate’s ambition for sustainability across their many interests manifests itself through social, energy and commercial sustainability and underpins this development. The building design takes a fabric first approach and will be designed to Passivhaus standard, albeit with a vernacular exterior.

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S K ETC H P E RS P ECTIVE O F LIT TLE STO C KS C LOSE, KI NLET, SHROPSHI RE

Little Stocks Close, Kinlet, Shropshire 46 UNITS

Client:

Confidential

Scheme:

15 homes

Site area:

1.5 ha

Brief:

To optimise extant planning consent

Tenure mix:

12 private rental homes 3 affordable homes

Typologies:

2, 3, 4 and 5-bedroom houses; mix of terraced and detached dwellings

Green & blue infrastructure:

Village green; integrated drainage

Role:

Masterplanner and executive architect

Status:

Reserved Matters Application submitted (April 2023)

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Outline planning permission, granted on 15 May 2020 and renewing a 2014 consent, allowed up to 15 dwellings including at least three affordable homes, with details of appearance, layout, scale and landscaping reserved. ADAM, on behalf of the client, sought to develop detailed proposals following the site’s acquisition in June 2022, refining the approved capacity to provide a broader housing mix. The scheme was conceived as an extension to Kinlet, forming a village edge with a central green, retained landscape features and strong connections to the street and countryside, alongside new access, pedestrian links, and integrated drainage.

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A mix of house types and tenures, agreed with Horsham District Council, supported local housing needs, particularly affordable and downsizing homes. The application sought permission for 59 dwellings (35% of which are affordable) with associated landscaping, access, parking, and drainage infrastructure.

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59 dwellings (35% affordable)

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S K ETC H P E RS P ECTIVE O F SA NDY LA NE , LO NG C R E N DON, ADAM B UCKI ARCHI NG HAM T ECT SHI URE RE

Sandy Lane, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire Client:

Confidential

Scheme:

11 Homes

Site area:

0.85 ha

Brief:

Planning promotion

Tenure mix:

8 market homes 3 affordable homes

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Green & blue infrastructure:

Retained trees and hedgerows; sustainable drainage and biodiversity enhancements

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Role:

Masterplanner and architect

Status:

Outline Planning Application (May 2025)

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ADAM, on behalf of the client, sought to deliver a landscape-led, high-quality residential scheme of up to 11 homes on land west of Sandy Lane, responding to the character and edge-of-settlement context of Long Crendon. The proposals integrated local architectural traditions, materials and scale to reinforce a strong sense of place, while respecting nearby heritage assets and landscape features. The masterplan promoted walkability through new pedestrian connections, retained key trees and hedgerows, and incorporated sustainable drainage and biodiversity enhancements. A mixed housing provision, including affordable homes, supported local needs, with a design to ensure safe, overlooked streets and a cohesive, sustainable community.

Illustrative masterplan

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Cecil Square, Stamford, Lincolnshire Client:

Burghley House Preservation Trust

Builder:

Morris Homes

Scheme:

45 homes

Site area:

1.5 ha

Tenure Mix:

65% market, 35% affordable

Green & blue infrastructure:

Village green; integrated drainage

Role:

Executive architect on behalf of Burghley Land Ltd

Status:

Completed in 2019

Cecil Square in Stamford contains 45 homes on a 1.5hectare site, the former location of the Stamford AFC football club on Kettering Road. ADAM was appointed to develop the site layout and architecture, to hone the approach Morris Homes had taken to better reflect the local character. The work started with a pattern book that helped assess details from railings to finishes. Care was taken to make sure expensive materials were limited to the places where they would add value. As a result of the masterplanning and careful detailing, the returns on these properties were significantly higher than the local market rate. Master masons were brought in to execute the complex ashlar stone walling, bespoke slate roofing and classical architectural detailing. In line with the Burghley Estate’s commitment to community heritage and Morris Homes’ regional development policies, the site served as an active training ground. Apprentices and trainees worked directly alongside master craftsmen on this live commercial project to learn the traditional building techniques that are in danger of dying out.

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We design schemes that stand the test of time. Many of our distinctive new settlements contain thousands of homes, together with other mixed use buildings, and take decades to complete. The high quality of our professional service is underpinned by scholarship and innovation, adding value to our architecture and urbanism. ADAM’s commitment to research and innovation is reflected in the co-development of the PLACE LOGIC modelling tool with academic partners at The University of Strathclyde. Equally, we commit significant resource to market-leading property market research such as our work with Farrer on placemaking, Place Making Two – A Stewardship Approach To Creating Communities, and with Bidwells in a report which assesses the triple bottom line value-add inherent in creating well masterplanned communities, Meeting the Housing Challenge. We believe in working in close collaboration with our clients, and everyone involved with each project. Every project of whatever scale is led by a single partner and their team, ensuring clarity of direction and continuity of vision.

We are motivated by architectural legacy and aware of the lasting impact of buildings and architectural ideas on future generations, communities and the environment. Our deep knowledge of classical and traditional architectural language informs designs that are innovative and adaptable for today. Sustainability is integral to this approach, ensuring our architecture is both responsible and resilient. We work with the very best craftspeople, including sculptors, stone masons and woodcarvers, to bring an attention to detail to our work which sets it apart. Walkability and sustainability are prioritised within all our masterplanning schemes to ensure cultural, social, environmental and commercial value. Our street based, evidential approach to site characterisation, masterplanning and design coding is informed by our bespoke PLACE LOGIC integrated spatial model.

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