This successful scheme delivered 64 dwellings on a sensitive site at the heart of the historic town of Chester.  The site had a number of challenges:  a neighbouring busy dual carriageway, a Grade II Listed building in one corner, the need to integrate into the historic fabric and frame the Victorian park to the south.

The design creates a tranquil space to live by the creation of a sequence of buffer courtyards separating the new dwellings from the busy roadway and creating a quiet haven at the heart of the scheme.

The site acts as a transition zone between the urban fabric of Chester and the green space of Grosvenor Park and the river and the scale and form of the design responds to this setting.

The Royal Fine Art Commission called the scheme an ‘intelligent and sensitive response to the constraints of the site’ and praised the ‘close relationship between the planning of the architecture and the architectural expression’.  In particular RFAC was ‘particularly pleased to see a volume house builder taking such a responsive attitude to a sensitive and difficult site’.

The scheme was completed in 2002.