A three-home residential development on a former car park, designed to maximise the site’s potential while meeting space, parking and neighbour-separation requirements.
AVD was appointed to develop proposals for three one-bedroom terraced new-build homes on a former car park on Newdigate Road in Coventry. The site also contained an existing electrical substation.
AVD had previously secured Planning Permission for two semi-detached homes on the site. After the land was purchased by a new client, the brief changed to maximising the development potential by increasing the scheme to three dwellings. The number and size of the homes were shaped by the available site area, Nationally Described Space Standard requirements and the need to provide off-street parking.
Increasing the previously approved two-home scheme to three dwellings created a more demanding planning and design exercise. The layout needed to work around existing trees, access requirements and the electrical substation, while also maintaining appropriate separation between habitable-room windows in neighbouring properties and the proposed homes.
The limited site area meant that increasing the number of dwellings also required smaller individual footprints, without compromising the basic standards needed for a viable residential scheme.
AVD developed the three homes in a terraced arrangement so the development would sit naturally within the character of the surrounding area while making efficient use of the available width and depth of the site.
The layout balanced dwelling size, off-street parking and separation from neighbouring homes against the client’s aim of achieving an additional dwelling. Using smaller footprints was an important compromise that allowed three one-bedroom homes to be accommodated while responding to the site’s physical and planning constraints.
Planning Permission was secured for three terraced dwellings, increasing the site’s approved capacity from the previous two-home scheme. Building Regulations approval was also obtained, and the three homes were subsequently built.
The project demonstrates how a constrained site can be reassessed to increase development potential while still responding to space standards, parking, neighbouring properties and the character of the surrounding street.
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