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Location: Bereweeke Road, Winchester, Hampshire
Client: Archel Homes
Value: Not disclosed
Status: Planning Approved February 2025
Bereweeke Road
ArchitecturePLB designed a sustainable brownfield redevelopment of the former Bereweeke Court Nursing Home in Winchester, transforming a redundant care home site into 32 high-quality apartments including 40% affordable housing. Working with developer Archel Homes and planning consultant Gillings Planning, we engaged extensively with Winchester City Council's planning and urban design teams through a comprehensive consultation process, responding positively to feedback on scale, massing and contextual sensitivity.
Our design evolved through multiple iterations to respond to the site's key constraints, including its sensitive relationship with neighbouring properties. We reduced the overall building height, articulated the elevations to break down apparent bulk into smaller connected blocks, and introduced a brick plinth with lightweight cladding above to respond to contextual elevation datums. The eastern gable was set back from the principal elevation to minimise overlooking.
The scheme provides a mix of one, two and three-bedroom apartments with 18 car parking spaces including two wheelchair accessible spaces, visitor parking and car club access, along with cycle storage exceeding local authority standards. We retained and augmented existing planting along Bereweeke Road while achieving 10% biodiversity net gain across the site. The development achieves exemplary environmental performance with space heating modelled at 12kWh/m²/yr and energy use intensity at 33kWh/m²/yr, aligning with emerging Winchester City Council Regulation 18 policy and LETI standards.
Planning permission was granted in February 2025, delivering much-needed affordable housing in a sustainable brownfield development that positively contributes to Winchester's residential streetscape.
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