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Housing Digital Innovation Awards 2023 | Shortlisted for Best Innovative New Build
We are pleased to announce that the Housing Digital Innovation Awards 2023 has shortlisted our affordable housing scheme, Mendip View in Axbridge for Best Innovative New Build.
Adaptive reuse; how old stories find new expression in North London
Adaptive reuse – how does this differ from refurbishment and renovation and what does it mean for our existing building stock? Sensitive transformations may be the key to cost-effective and sustainable solutions, while maintaining relationships between property owners, tenants and those who simply inhabit our constructed world.
Planning permission secured for 67 apartments
BoonBrown are delighted to announce that alongside clients Allerton, we have now secured planning permission for 67 apartments across three blocks on the Cherry Tree Pub site in Peterborough. Our application was recommended for approval by the Planning Officer, and later approved under delegated powers without going to Planning Committee.
Insider SW Property Awards 2022 | Sustainable Project of the Year
BoonBrown’s recently completed scheme for 20 new affordable homes at Mendip View, Axbridge, has won ‘Sustainable Project of the Year’ at the Insider South West Property Awards!! The ceremony in Bristol on Thursday evening was overwhelmed by cheer and applause by the great news. To be given recognition for all the hard work through this prestigious regional award was a great delight.
BoonBrown appointed on Chelsea Embankment Gardens
BoonBrown Landscape Architects are extremely excited to be working alongside the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, the Chelsea Steering Group and Chelsea Physic Garden to develop and enhance the Chelsea Embankment Gardens. Our vision for the gardens centres around visually uniting the two spaces, through the use of repetition in planting types between the sites, using naturalistic, drought-tolerant planting – creating a strong design language between the gardens. Swathes of bulbs and…
LABC Building Excellence Awards 2022 | Regional winner of Best Small Social Housing Development
We are delighted that our Elderton Fields project has been selected as regional winner for the LABC Building Excellence Awards 2022 in the category Best Small Social Housing Development. Working with our client Stonewater and contractors Winsley White Ltd, we have delivered fourteen new affordable homes within a wider landscaped scheme including school parking, wildlife corridors and public art.
Building Regulation Changes – The perceived impact!
Associate Architectural Technician Tom Kimber, discusses the significant updates to Parts L & F, and two new documents, Parts O & S of the Building Regulations that are coming into force on the 15th of June 2022.
South West Tourism Awards 2022 | Bronze Award
We are delighted to announce that one of our technical projects, The Dorset Museum, has won bronze in the Large Visitor Attraction of the Year category for the South West Tourism Awards! Congratulations to the Dorset Museum, the design team and contractors Acheson Construction Limited !
Energy saving through Retrofit
Over the last few years there seems to have been an increased awareness of climate change and the environment, this together with the Government’s 2050 Net Zero CO2 emissions target has led our industry to consider new ways to make buildings more efficient, less reliant on fossil fuels, and promote renewable technologies. The current energy crisis due to soaring fuel costs is also making us more mindful about where our energy is coming from and the need to be less wasteful with it.
Housing Design Awards 2022 | Shortlisted
We are delighted and very proud to announce that our scheme The Fenways, Phase 2B Northstowe has been shortlisted for the very prestigious Housing Design Awards hosted by Design For Homes!!! A fantastic achievement for BoonBrown and the project team including Keepmoat Homes, arc Landscape Design & Planning Ltd and Luken Beck. Our parcel is part of a large new town masterplan in Cambridgeshire, with our reserved matters application approved last year. Working with our valued client Keepmoat…