15 new family homes with high quality Architectural and Landscape Design. The project is currently at post tender stage. SMLA carried out masterplanning and layout design in collaboration with 2e architects as well as developing detailed design for bespoke boundary works , paving and planting. Project currently due to start on site in Summer 2016
More
FORGOTTEN SPACES SHEFFIELD 2011-commendation. A collaboration with Architects David Britch and Eamonn Caniffe. LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY CENTENARY COMPETITION. 1997 with Duncan Ecob. The proposals aimed to extend recreational uses from the town into the surrounding countryside,in ways which linked creatively and conceptually with the historical development of Letchworth as one of the earliest Garden Cities. […]
More
A public space strategy for Manchester’s Northern Quarter. The study developed in response to concern by local businesses and residents at the lack of public space in the Northern Quarter. This was carried out against a background of increased pressure for residential development in the area. The study analysed a hierarchy of spaces and developed […]
More
SMLA were appointed in 2009 to develop a master plan for the park which drew on consultation carried out by the friends of Copperas Field. Since then the group has secured funding to progress the project to achieve planning permission which was achieved in 2011.Funding for a natural play space was secured in 2013 .The […]
More
A local neighbourhood centre surrounded by local shops, a pub and public services such as a Library, the Housing Office and Doctors surgery. The project aimed to tie all of these together with a new enlarged paved space with a stepped green space forming a backdrop for events in the summer. Completed in 2008. An […]
More
Sale West is a former Manchester overspill estate nicknamed the ‘Racecourse Estate’ after the names of some of its roads and surrounded by relativly affluent suburbs. Trafford Council and Irwell Valley Housing Association identified funding from the lottery for improvements to public and neighbourhood spaces in the area with an emphasis on youth and community […]
More
Partington is a Manchester overspill estate on the edge of the Cheshire countryside. Many of the residents came from inner city Manchester in the 1950’s and 60’s with the promise of work in the adjoining petrochemical industries in Carrington –much of which closed in the 1980’s and 90’s. The area in the late 1990’s was […]
More
Hillock estate is a Manchester overspill estate located in Whitefield in north Manchester between Manchester and Bury. The Project focussed on improved neighbourhood spaces in conjunction with improving practical issue such as parking problems. An environmental strategy for the estate was developed through a series of workshops with a steering group comprising residents and Housing […]
More
Since 2009 the practice has worked with Rochdale Boroughwide Housing to develop a series of Environmental improvement projects in housing neighbourhoods in Rochdale. The bulk of the work focused on improvements to individual properties and blocks of flats-providing off road parking utilizing permeable SUDS compliant driveways ; improved bin stores and recycling facilities So far […]
More