The masterplan is defined by key vistas, active frontages, shared social spaces and access to daylight. Its enclosing forms produce 117 homes composed with three distinct types of accommodation; a mews terrace, villa apartments and the rotunda. These wrap around a central communal garden and a diverted feeder canal that will run through the heart of the development. 

The apartments are a mix of 30% affordable rent, 23% shared ownership and 47% private sale.

The entire project is made of a single brick type which has lightness, warmth and strong texture. The brick is detailed to give a sense of mass to each distinct building type.

Our design for Spring at Stonebridge Park completes the frame for two major existing park spaces and creates the opportunity for a third at its centre. 

There are three key vistas that suggest locations for: a landmark building (the rotunda) to address the parkland and prominent buildings (the mews terrace bookends) viewed from a distance along the main Hillside road.

The three storey mews houses along Hillside match the scale of much of the terrace housing in the area. The five storey villas’ mass is broken down into four individual villas, connected to each other with a continuous base of apartments at ground level. The rotunda’s circular form and ‘set back’ terraces for the top two storeys minimise its impact on its neighbours and strengthen its role as a landmark, with views along Hillside and across Fawood Park.

The orientation of the buildings ensures direct sunlight reaches the garden, across the smaller mews houses, from the south and west. Between the villas, corner balconies gain cross-views of the park and garden. 

Spring at Stonebridge Park is one of the final projects to be developed within the regeneration of the Stonebridge Estate. The success of working with communities is built upon developing face to face relationships with stakeholders, through which we listen and learn and establish trust and understanding. As with previous projects on the Estate, including our Stonebridge Hillside Hub completed in 2008, extensive public consultation was carried out with local resident groups during the pre-planning period.

Our masterplan for the site creates a strong pedestrian link between the parks and between the north and south areas of the estate, with other routes connect residents to local facilities.

By accessing villa apartment cores from the north and providing through-access to the communal garden on the south, both building fronts get the natural surveillance and security that comes with an active frontage.