AK Architects achieved planning permission for this modern housing development in Somerset. The layout was set out across 1.038 ha and demonstrates an understanding of how the site would be appropriate as a high quality residential area to enhance and integrate with the existing residential and employment context.
The resulting proposal is for 52 residential units over a meandering street scene, flanked by banked highway woodland screening to the east and wildlife zone and existing housing to the east and north west. The layout has been designed to ensure a vibrant and busy community can be achieved through this development as a key part of a broader aims for the remaining strategic development plan outside of our client’s ownership.
Other factors, such as landscape character, ecology, flood risk and green infrastructure have helped inform a design philosophy across the site which comfortably responds to the requirements of the site allocation within the constraints arising.