Posts Tagged ‘house.new.build’

eco home

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

Family Home, Swansea. 3 bedrooms + detached garage & garden room [238m2 total floor area]

Floor plans [click to enlarge]

Designs are  just complete and planning application submitted for this new house. The development site has been created by subdividing a large area of unused and overgrown land from an existing residential property. The site is  South facing and inclined with lovely distant views which drove the design process towards passive solar layouts and larger openings facing South. (more…)

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new homes II

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Speculative Luxury Housing Development. Draethen, Nr Caerphilly.

3 no. 5 bedroom houses [320 m2 per unit].

I was employed by local first-time developers to prepare designs for a redevelopment site owned by their family. The land comprised of a pair of small disused quarries containing disused commercial kennels. The site is on the outskirts of the picturesque village in which they live, with fabulous elevated panoramic views over the Rhymney valley landscape below.

The developers carried out all negotiations with the planning authority themselves and secured the necessary conservation area consent and development approval. My involvement in this project was purely office based; I prepared drawings for (more…)

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new homes I

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Self Build Family Home. Rogerstone, Nr Newport.

5 bedrooms [330 m2].

I was asked to design a new family home for a client that I had previously worked for doing a factory extension in Caerphilly. The scheme involved the demolition and replacement of a pair of attached semi-derelict cottages in a wonderful rural setting near Rogerstone. The site sits atop the mountain ridge with the Sirhowy valley one side and panoramic views of the open countryside to Newport and hills towards Cwmbran on the other. (more…)

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spec housing I

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Speculative Housing Development for local developer.

Bedwas, Nr Caerphilly. 5 no.  5 bedroom houses. 275 m2 per unit.

We were employed to gain all statutory approvals and provide a construction information package, including highways and civils [retaining, drainage & highways] design. I did the lot – from contoured land survey [with an assistant holding the staff!],  site layouts to overcome restrictive easements, developed the design to satisfy the developer’s tastes & budget, negotiated planning, building regs.

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