British Homes Award Win for Maitland Park Estate
Maitland Park Estate is winner of the 2024 British Homes Awards Development of the Year (Over 100 Homes).
What the judges said:
“An impressive project that has a clear and demonstrable benefit for the local community.”
“A really well thought through scheme where the development sits well within the site precinct. It is sympathetic to the surrounding built form and embraces and celebrates the mature landscape.”
“A contextual design response focused on livability and sustainability. This is a really strong submission which clearly tells the design ambition, development resulting in final design that integrates well within its context while showcasing high quality design.”
“Maitland Park Estate’s comprehensive and detailed proposal is incredibly impressive. The level of consideration and clear description of sustainable and community focused projects with the aid of a project timeline giving a longer leading and wider understanding of the complex nature of the site was welcome.”
At Maitland Park Estate, 119 new homes offer both social rented and private home ownership tenure in a variety of sizes to suit the London Borough of Camden’s housing needs, with fully accessible and adaptable dwellings provided across the development.
The Estate was built in the 1930s with successive waves of development until the 1980s. Set around a long park, it provides a tranquil and mature landscape at its heart. The new development frames the central park with a series of brick buildings that share common details and forms across two infill sites.
A new community hall, with dedicated garden, houses a large, sub-dividable function room, bookable meeting/teaching spaces, and a café at its heart to provide a hub for locals. New boundary treatments to back gardens, new play features, landscape enhancements and planting have greatly improved the estate’s parkland setting.
Maitland Park is the first project for Camden to target the Homes Quality Mark (HQM) accreditation, ensuring each home achieves an excellent standard of performance while being made of healthy, low-carbon materials. The project is also the first Camden Borough scheme to use air-source heat pumps with MVHR (so fully electric), combining with an extensive PV array, a building fabric based on Passivhaus principles, and biodiverse roofs to achieve a truly low-energy scheme.