We are pleased to announce that two of our current projects have been shortlisted for the Housing Design Awards.

Southmere forms the first phase of the South Thamesmead masterplan, one of Europe’s largest regeneration projects. The design proposes a new Civic Square alongside 525 homes, a library and commercial uses. A new housing typology consisting of building ‘ensembles’ arranged around a shared raised garden divides the wider scheme into a number of smaller communities. At ground level each ‘ensemble’ enlivens the public realm with café and retail uses, entry lobbies and embedded courtyard spaces.

Mountfield Park, a new neighbourhood on the southern edge of Canterbury, is the first development of a major urban extension to the city. The proposals develop a concept for a 21st Century Garden City with five distinct residential clusters, arranged to resemble the ‘gridded patchwork’ structure of surrounding hops fields and fruit orchards. The 140 homes offer a broad mix of housing typologies with space standards exceeding those of national guidelines.

The award winners will be announced at a ceremony on the 10th of July.