Housing Design Awards shortlist
Maitland Park Estate has been shortlisted for a Housing Design Award. The Housing Design Awards is the longest-running awards programme in the world and is supported by DLUHC, GLA, Homes England and all three major built environment professions (RICS, RIBA and RTPI).
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.