Hook Norton’s Award Winning Community Housing Project!

It’s been a fantastic year for the community housing project here in Hook Norton. The first residents have moved in, the landscaping is bedding in and developing, and the community building, for use by the whole village is reaching completion.

To cap it all, it is now an award winning project, with a number of local and national awards to its name.

Unlock Net Zero Award  – HNCLT & Greencore for ‘Collaboration of the Year’
Inside Housing Development Awards  – Best affordable housing development – less than 5m
Building Awards – Net Zero Award – Finalists
Climate Action Awards – Innovation in Climate Action Award
Evening Standard New Homes Awards – Best Low Carbon Homes Award
Archives
  • Feasibility Study Sketches - These sketches are part of a feasibility study report we produced showing initial ideas for a collection of farm buildings. At the start of a project we will carry out a feasibility study for our clients. This is a tool
  • Recently completed projects – coming soon! - We had a busy few days photographing two completed projects to add to our portfolio. Both very different, but both following our core principles of energy efficiency, responding to context, collaboration and attention to detail.
  • Pre-cut timber I-beam system - We have been developing a pre-cut timber frame system to deliver highly insulated affordable buildings with increased on-site efficiency and minimised waste. The frame is designed, thermally modelled and optimised via BIM. A second process of Nesting ensures a minimum
  • Visit to project reaching completion - Some of our team recently visited a project which is reaching completion. It’s a multi-phased project and this first phase creates an annex for family members to live as they grow older. Situated in a farmyard, the form of the
  • We’re on The List by House & Garden! - We have been proud to be List members for the past 4 years. We are listed in the Directory and regularly featured in their Instagram Stories. Most recently our Low Energy Home was featured for a post on Open Plan Kitchen and Dining spaces.
  • Planning permission received for house in AONB - We have received planning permission for the extensive space planning of a house in Gloucestershire. The house sits in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and on a good sized plot. A project such as this presents an interesting challenge
  • Scheme for a GP’s Surgery - We have been working on a scheme to provide an improved GP surgery space within a Grade II* listed building. These sketches show a section through the existing listed terrace, restored gardens and mews building. By restoring the listed building
  • Grade II Listed Manor House wins an Award! - Our grade II listed manor house has won the Listed and Modern Traditional Residential Extension Architectural Award! The awards were recently featured in The Times Bricks & Mortar and we are thrilled with the result!
  • Section Sketches - We were asked to take a look at an existing scheme to ensure the most was being made out of the building and the site. We produced these sketches for the client to show alternative options on how their house
  • Grade II Listed House nominated for an award - Our Grade II Listed House has been nominated for an award! It’s currently appearing in the Listed Heritage Magazine published by the Listed Property Owners Club. It is being shown as an example of a sensitively designed extension to a listed building. It has
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