prp specialist housing brochure 2013

Specialist Housing and Care

We are a large multi-disciplinary practice providing Architecture and a range of complimentary design and consultancy services including Urban Design and Masterplanning, Landscape Design, Interior Design, Environmental Services, Project Management and Planning.

PRP has 50 years experience in housing and our portfolio embraces all aspects of residential and mixed use development, from the general to the specialist and across the public and private sectors.

Our projects range from small scale to large urban regeneration projects, new settlements and mixed use developments that involve other sectors including education, health, leisure, retail, work places and community uses.

We operate across the United Kingdom and in overseas markets where our knowledge and expertise in housing, sustainable design and place-making adds value to the regeneration and development of towns and cities.

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Specialist Housing at PRP

Publications and Research

UK Specialist Housing Projects

Housing Solutions for Older People

Kidbrooke, Greenwich, London Trees, Highgate, London St Bedes, Bedford Prince Charles House, St Austell Christopher Boones Almshouses, Lewisham, London Pilgrim Gardens, Evington The Oaks, Merton Bayton Court, Hackney, London Further Projects La Nouvelle Maraitaine, Guernsey Gordon Collings House, Bedford Newman Court, Basingstoke Campbell Place, Fleet Trailway Court, Blandford Forum Alexandra Place, Wokingham

Residential Care and Nursing Homes

Our Ladys Convent, Loughborough Moorlands Lodge, Hindhead Further Projects Greenacres, North East Somerset Tandridge Heights, Oxted Maryville Care Home, Brentford Glebelands, Wokingham Nursing Homes at St Georges Park, Ditchling Beeston View, Cheshire James Terry Court, Croydon The Beeches, Brentwood Little Marlow Road, Marlow Coombe Lane West, Kingston Upon Thames Nazareth House, Plymouth Reigate Road, Epsom

Retirement Villages and Continuing Care

St Georges Park, East Sussex Denham Garden Village, Denham Hartfields, Hartlepool Lovat Fields, Milton Keynes

Learning Disabilities and Special Education Needs

RNIB Pears Centre for Specialist Learning, Coventry Further Projects Carrswood, Bath Flower Lane, Barnet Abbotswood, Rustington Pert Close, Barnet The Space, Barnet September Court, Barnet

Interior Design for Specialist Housing

Landscape Design for Specialist Housing

Specialist Housing Team

Office Contacts

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PRP Specialist Housing has a dedicated team of over 40 architects and designers. We are a multi-award winning team with a reputation for being the best in the UK.

We lead the market in providing attractive housing and care solutions that meet the needs and aspirations of the next generation of older people and for the younger generation with special needs.

Specialist Housing at PRP

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Projects throughout the UK

The Specialist Housing team is mainly based in our Surrey office and handles projects throughout the UK. A number of projects in the north of the country are serviced by our Manchester office.

Passionate about our work

We are passionate about designing homes which are innovative and sustainable, where residents feel secure and proud to live. Our interest in our work extends beyond the architecture to the people we design for. We want to make a difference to peoples lives.

Unrivalled portfolio

With such a large portfolio of schemes and broad client base we have an unrivalled understanding of the various models of older persons housing and care, and of our clients businesses across all sectors; public, private and local authority.

Housing Design Awards 2012HAPPI Project Award - Pilgrim Gardens, Evington

The British Homes Awards 2012Best Age-Restricted Development - Prince Charles House

Housing Innovation Awards 2012Most Innovative Supported Housing Scheme - Alexandra Place, Wokingham

Housing Design Awards 2011 HAPPI Completed Award - Trees Highgate HAPPI Project Award - St Bedes Extra Care, Bedford

Housebuilder Awards 2011Best Design - Trees, Highate

Housing Design Awards 2010HAPPI Project Award - Kidbrooke Extra Care and Senior Living

Shaping policy and thought leadership

Our experience is grounded in many years of research. Most recently PRP has been an integral member of the HAPPI initiative, authors of numerous design guides in the sector and respected advisors to national policy making bodies.

Bespoke solutions and processes

Above all, each of the projects we deliver is designed with care and is bespoke for that particular client, resident group and location. We often help to develop specific design briefs with our clients. We like to consult with residents and other stakeholders throughout the process and we are proactive in project management and delivery.

Design quality and value

Our drive for design quality compliments our expertise in this sector, resulting in award-winning, truly innovative buildings which are cost effective and efficient to run.

Multi-award winning designs

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Publications and Research

Recognised Thought Leaders

As well as being recognised thought leaders within this sector the specialist housing group carries out continual research of the issues surrounding end users needs and care provision along with issues of revenue funding and legislation.

Authors of Recognised Design Guides

Members of the practice have been involved in the production of a number of well recognised publications including the recent Non-Mainstream Housing Design Guidance published by the HCA and Design principles for Extra Care for the Department of Health and Housing LIN.

HAPPI

In 2009 the HAPPI (Housing our Ageing Population Panel of Innovation) report was published which sets out experts recommendations for the future shape of our housing for older people.

Our Managing Partner, Roger Battersby, is a member of the HAPPI Panel. These recommendations from the HAPPI report are now a feature for all our new projects.

We continue to research benchmark schemes throughout Europe and make regular visits with our clients to draw upon current thinking and best practice.

Shaping Policy and Thought Leadership

Designing for Dementia

Design issues for dementia play an extremely important role within many of our projects, thinking of the changing needs of older people. We strive to ensure we take into account current best practice. To enable us to do this we have made regular visits to the University of Stirlings Dementia Services Development Centre and also hold workshops for our staff with visiting training experts from the care sector. We have written design guidance on designing for dementia which is still widely recognised and referred to.

ALL PARTY PARLIAMENTARY

GROUP ON HOUSING AND CARE FOR OLDER PEOPLEHousing

our Ageing Population: Plan for ImplementationRichard Best, APPG Inquiry ChairJeremy Porteus, APPG Inquiry Secretary

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UK Specialist Housing Projects

PRP Project Locations

PRP Office Locations

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Project locations - Counties

Ashford Bath and North East Somerset Bedfordshire Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Carmarthenshire Cheshire Cleveland Cornwall Devon Dorset East Sussex Essex Guernsey Gwent Gwynedd Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Leicestershire Lincolnshire Merseyside Norfolk North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Somerset South Yorkshire

London Boroughs

Barnet Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Lambeth Lewisham Merton Richmond Upon Thames Tower Hamlets Westminster City

Servicing projects throughout the UK

Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Tyne and Wear Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire

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Housing Solutions for Older People (30-170 units)

Extensive experience

PRP has extensive experience in the design of Extra Care Sheltered Housing with over 100 schemes completed or in progress, working across the sector for Housing Associations, private charities, Local Authorities and private developers.

Focus on the end user

Our aim is to provide accommodation that reflects the needs of the occupants, which is resident-focused and domestic in scale and atmosphere. In addition to our detailed understanding of the needs of older people, we appreciate the requirements of management and staff within this building type.

Housing our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation (HAPPI)

The HAPPI report set out the expert panels recommendations for the future shape of our housing for older people. In 2010 the Department of Health became an awards partner for the annual Housing Design Awards which have included a special award each year for a project offering the most attractive housing for our ageing population.

PRP has won four HAPPI Housing Design Awards in three consecutive years since the award was instigated with accolades from the judges for our projects that have included setting the benchmark for all housing for older people and the best in Europe. The recommendations from the HAPPI Report are now a feature for all our new projects.

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Kidbrooke Greenwich, London

Winner - HAPPI Project - Housing Design Awards 2010 Shortlisted - Housebuilder Awards 2012 Best Regeneration Project

This award winning scheme of 170 units responds to the recommendations of the HAPPI report, setting a precedent for attractive contemporary retirement apartments at the heart of urban regeneration. The design challenges the central corridor Extra Care typology with a Core and Cluster arrangement.

Extensive communal facilities include caf, shop, internet space, cinema room and village hall as well as a fitness centre. Further resident only communal spaces are provided at first floor level in an arrangement that acts as an interface between the residents and the wider community

Client: Berkeley Homes - Urban Renaissance

Due to Complete: March 2013

Role: Architecture

Value: 25 million

Extra Care and Senior Living


This high quality 100% affordable housing scheme for older people provides 40 Extra Care flats in a beautiful setting. The design was conceived prior to the HAPPI report, yet displays many of its recommendations and was described by the Housing Design Award Judges as setting the benchmark for all housing for older people in the UK and by the Housebuilder Awards Judges as the best of its kind in Europe, with every aspect of the development researched and applied. The high quality development incorporates key design features to meet the needs of older people both now and in the future.

Winner - HAPPI Completed - Housing Design Awards 2011 Winner - Lifetime Home of the Year - British Homes Awards 2011

Winner - Best Design - House Builder Awards 2011

Client: Hill Homes and One Housing Group

Completed: February 2011

Role: Architecture Landscape Architecture Interior Design Project Management Environmental Services

Value: 7.2 million

Extra Care Sheltered Housing

Trees Highgate, London


St Bedes Bedford

This high quality, mixed tenure, Extra Care housing scheme providing 104 apartments, is sensitively integrated into the community and the surrounding conservation area. The site is that of the former St Bedes school and three of the existing school buildings are also incorporated into the design.

The generous space standards and private amenity combine with vibrant communal spaces and a variety of beautiful gardens. The design provides flexibility that enables changes to be made easily in the future.

Winner - HAPPI Project - Housing Design Awards 2011 Shortlisted - Best Design - Housebuilder Awards 2012

Client: Orbit Homes

Due to Complete: March 2013

Role: Architecture Landscape Architecture Interior Design

Value: 12.9 million



Prince Charles House St Austell

This compact three-storey building which provides 31 supported flats for older people is the first significant demonstrator project for the Cornwall Eco Town. It has been designed to achieve a BREEAM rating of OUTSTANDING and has been inspired by the HAPPI report findings.

Communal facilities include a residents lounge, a public activity room, a foyer with ICT suite, a buggy/bike store and several seating areas throughout the building. The landscaped gardens have been designed by the nearby Eden Project/Sensory Trust.

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Shortlisted - HAPPI Project - Housing Design Awards 2012 Winner - Best Age Restricted Development - British Homes Awards 2012

Client: Ocean Housing Ltd

Completed: April 2012

Role: Architecture Planning Environmental Services

Value: 4.9 million

Sheltered Housing


Christopher Boones Almshouses Lewisham, London

Part of the Christopher Boones site re-provides and consolidates the existing almshouse accommodation currently provided on two sites. The new development will provide 62 apartments for older people and 26 private sale apartments.

The building typology is closely aligned with the aspirations and recommendations of the HAPPI report. The almshouse concept has been reinvented as generously sized dual aspect apartments, each with its own front door, accessed from gallery walkways that overlook the courtyard and offer opportunities for social interaction.

Shortlisted - HAPPI Project - Housing Design Awards 2010

Client: Christopher Boones Almshouses Charity

Due to Complete: Spring 2016

Role: Architecture Landscape Architecture

Value: 16 million

Older Persons Housing and Private Sale Apartments


Pilgrim Gardens Evington, Leicester

Pilgrim Gardens provides 31 new state of the art assisted living apartments which will replace 14 out of date bungalows located on a site with an existing residential and nursing care home which incorporates dementia care. Pilgrim Gardens already has a strong community focus and is reinforced by the provision of a new multi-purpose communal lounge and activity space which are part of the new development.

The design avoids internal corridors through the use of colonnades and external walkways, offering connection to the garden and aiding orientation.

Winner - HAPPI Project - Housing Design Awards 2012

Client: Pilgrim Homes

Due to Complete: April 2013


Value: 5 million

Assisted Living and Remodelled Care Home


The Oaks Merton

An existing outdated sheltered housing scheme is being replaced with 51 contemporary, spacious, innovative and flexible apartments suitable for current and future generations of older people. Designed around the principles of the HAPPI report, this dementia friendly scheme is seamlessly integrated into the heart of a residential community and is located adjacent to an existing day centre.

Shortlisted - HAPPI Project - Housing Design Awards 2012

All flats are dual aspect and accessed via open deck walkways. There are a high proportion of units with three habitable rooms and space standards within the flats are very generous.

Client: Merton Priory Homes (Circle 33)

Due to Complete: Early 2014

Role: Architecture Landscape Architecture Environmental Services Planning

Value: 7 million



Bayton Court Hackney, London

Bayton Court provides 31 independent living apartments for the over-55s. Overlooking London Fields in Hackney, it offers a high quality and well detailed urban design which fits well into the local context. The scheme has been designed so that the apartments are arranged around a landscaped courtyard facing onto London Fields Park. The majority of apartments are orientated to maximise opportunities for sunlight and will benefit from private amenity space in the form of balconies and patio space for ground floor apartments.

Client: Hanover Housing Association

Due to Complete: Autumn 2014


Value: 6 million

Independent Living Apartments


Further Projects

Trailway Court, Blandford Forum

The development for Synergy Housing Group comprises 40 Extra Care flats and additional communal facilities within the Blandford Forum Conservation Area.

La Nouvelle Maraitaine, Guernsey

One of two new Extra Care schemes for Guernsey Housing Association, the first of their kind within Guernsey. La Nouvelle Maraitaine will provide 50 Extra Care apartments and a specialist day centre.

Gordon Collings House, Bedford

Comprises 55 affordable dwellings for rent for BPHA with additional communal, administrative and ancillary accommodation which replaces an existing outdated sheltered housing scheme.

Alexandra Place, Wokingham

This award winning scheme provides 64 Extra Care mixed tenure flats and communal facilities for Catalyst Communities HA and Central & Cecil HT. Also incorporated is a specialist dementia wing. The scheme has achieved Code for Sustainable Homes Level 4.

Campbell Place, Fleet

This high quality development for Sentinel HA brings light into the heart, creates views of the courtyards, responds to the mature landscape setting and incorporates many design features recommended for people suffering from dementia.

Newman Court, Basingstoke

A new flagship Extra Care scheme for Hampshire County Council, Saxon Weald, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council and Hampshire Primary Care Trust, to provide 64 Extra Care units for affordable rent and a new social care day centre.

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Residential Care and Nursing Homes

Extensive Experience

PRP has outstanding experience in designing residential and nursing care homes with over thirty completed schemes and over ten further projects either on site or with planning approval throughout England.

A broad client base in the private, local authority and voluntary sectors has given us a clear understanding of the various models of care home being developed by different providers.

Designing for Dementia

We have wide-ranging experience of designing enabling environments for residents with dementia and other sensory impairments. Many of the design strategies adopted for residents with dementia are incorporated by PRP as general good practice for all of our designs for older people. This approach means our buildings aid orientation, maximise natural light and create environments that are a pleasure to live in.

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A new convent which provides 23 bedrooms, six of which provide care for the most frail members of the community.

The design sensitively integrates the needs of the religious community, in terms of both their future care needs and also their particular daily needs, with the historic context of the site and residential scale of the street.

Together, the chapel and courtyard garden form the two most important spaces in the convent, representing worship, prayer and contemplation.

Shortlisted - HAPPI Completed - Housing Design Award 2010Shortlisted - Civic Trust Award 2009Our Ladys Convent

Loughborough

Client: The Sisters of Providence, Rosminian Order

Completed: August 2007


Value: 2.65 million

Care Home, Convent and Chapel


Moorlands Lodge Hindhead

Moorlands Lodge is a Registered Care Home built for Signature Senior Lifestyle in the Surrey style. The building is designed as a grand country house in landscaped gardens with mature trees.

The accommodation offered is of a very high quality for private rent and far in excess of national standards. The main unit of accommodation is a one bedroom suite where residents have their own separate living room and en-suite bedroom.

There are two bedroom suites and studios in the mix to offer a range of choice. A dedicated dementia cluster of 20 en-suite bedrooms is provided in all Signature homes.

The development provides 97 residential suites plus a range of high quality communal facilities such as a restaurant, caf, activity Lounges, library, cinema and spa baths.

Client: Signature Senior Lifestyle

Completed: February 2012

Role: Architecture Interior Design

Value: 10.3 million

Care Home Incorporating Dementia Care


Further Projects

Beeston View, Cheshire

A new-build dementia specific care home built in the grounds of a Grade II listed building and comprising 48 en-suite care bedrooms for Barchester Healthcare. The building includes a lifestyle kitchen to help and encourage life skills and other activity spaces.

Glebelands, Wokingham

This sensitive refurbishment of a Grade II Listed building provides 41 en-suite nursing care bedrooms, library/cinema, dining room, sitting room, computer room, conservatory, activity room and assisted bathrooms for the Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund.

Greenacres, North East Somerset

One of four developments to provide Bath and North East Somerset with Centres of Excellence for older people. Greenacres provides a 30 bed care home, 30 units of Extra Care and a day centre.

Maryville Care Home, Brentford

In the heart of a Conservation Area, this extensive redevelopment for The Poor Servants of the Mother of God provides a dual registered 37 bed care home with an adjoining new chapel and convent for residents of the home.

Nursing Homes at St Georges Park, Ditchling

Three 60 bed nursing care homes situated within the continuing care retirement village of St Georges Park for Augustinian Care. Each care home has clusters of 10-15 bedrooms each with their own dedicated lounge/dining room and facilities.

Tandridge Heights, Oxted

This 75 bed nursing home for Barchester Healthcare comprises five 15 bed clusters with dedicated lounge/dining room and facilities in each - one of which is specifically for residents with dementia.


Nazareth House, Plymouth

Refurbishment of an existing care home for Nazareth Care to provide 45 state of the art en-suite care bedrooms in three clusters, each with their own dedicated lounge, dining facilities and nurse base.

Reigate Road, Epsom

This 83 bed care home for Signature Senior Lifestyle provides 59 care suites made up of studio suites, one and two bed suites and 24 dementia suites.

James Terry Court, Croydon

Care home comprising 76 residential, nursing and dementia care bedrooms for RMBI. The existing main building has been retained and converted at lower ground level with the three upper floors refurbished to include 13 new Extra Care units.

The Beeches, Brentwood

This development provides 99 care suites for Signature Senior Lifestyle which include 24 for dementia care. The scheme is designed to create an active and inclusive community.

Little Marlow Road, Marlow

This 78 bed care home for Signature Senior Lifestyle has been designed as a high quality, attractive, traditionally-styled building. Sixteen of the care suites are dedicated to dementia specific care.

Coombe Lane West, Kingston Upon Thames

This new build nursing care home provides 92 care suites and incorporates dementia specific care for Signature Senior Lifestyle. The architectural character of the development is inspired by the context of the surrounding area.

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Retirement Villages and Continuing Care (180-330 units)

About Retirement Communities

PRP was first involved in designing a retirement village some 15 years ago. Since then we have completed five substantial villages across the UK with further schemes at design stage such as in Bristol and Dartington. This market is growing rapidly, with increased choice, flexibility and quality of facilities reflecting the rising aspirations of baby boomer retirees.

Retirement communities have a range of benefits: security, freedom from maintenance worries, increased social interaction, more affordable care provisions and greater freedom to enjoy leisure time having made this lifestyle choice.

We are developing retirement villages with both private and RSL clients in a variety of locations, reflecting a range of housing and care models. Such unrivalled experience in this sector is invaluable in assisting clients in developing their briefs and in securing planning approvals for what is still a relatively new type of development.

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St Georges Park East Sussex

The brief for this new rural retirement village was to realise the original Augustinian Orders vision for a state of the art continuing care retirement village.

This development includes 236 mainly two bedroom retirement apartments for leasehold sale. The receipt from these helped to cross-subsidise new nursing accommodation in the form of three 60 bedroom nursing homes on another part of the site.

Silver - Best Retirement Development - What House? Awards 2011Winner - Best Retirement Development - Evening Standard New Homes Awards 2010

A Club House building on the village square forms the social heart of the scheme with a caf, restaurant, convenience store, health and beauty suite, games room, IT room/library and a hairdressing salon.

The buildings are set in the most beautiful rural surroundings with views over the South Downs.

Client: Augustinian Nursing Homes

Due to Complete: Latest phase completed Summer 2012, final phase due to complete 2014


Value: 40 million

Continuing Care Retirement Community


This retirement village provides 326 new dwellings which encompasses a range of accommodation to cover the spectrum of care requirements, varying from relatively independent residents to those in need of 24 hour care.

The philosophy for Denham Retirement Village is to bring care to peoples homes rather than moving them into care. The scheme is breaking new ground in the field of assistive technology.

Denham Garden Village Denham

Silver - Best Retirement Development - What House? AwardsWinner - Best Retirement 55 Plus Development - The Daily Telegraphs Your New Homes Awards

The development includes a range of public facilities including a gym, pool, restaurant and bar, village hall and GP surgery. These are all located at the vibrant heart of the village which enables the scheme to provide a real community hub.

Client: Anchor Trust

Completed: October 2007


Value: 62 million

Extra Care Retirement Village

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This joint venture between JRHT, Hartlepool Borough Council, Hartlepool PCT and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS, comprises 242 Extra Care apartments which provides outreach accommodation for both the PCT and Hartlepools Adult and Community Services teams.

Hartfields Hartlepool

Shortlisted - HAPPI Completed - Housing Design Award 2010

There are a variety of facilities such as a restaurant, shop and a Healthy Living Centre incorporating a spa pool, hairdressing salon, various lounges and activity spaces. Many of these facilities are also available to the wider community. There is a range of dwelling types including apartments and bungalows.

Client: Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust

Completed: September 2009


Value: 27.5 million



The ExtraCare Charitable Trusts brief was based on a model which has been refined on each successive development since the completion of their first retirement village. The model provides the accommodation in the form of a large block of flats with an integral village centre as a single-storey annex. This enables the main communal areas that include a restaurant, village hall and lounge area to benefit from more generous floor to ceiling heights.

Lovat Fields Milton Keynes

Other village centre facilities include a bar/caf, a craft room, a woodwork room, shop, library, fitness suite including spa pool, hairdressing salon, beauty suite and assisted bathroom, an IT/TV studio, a launderette and a reminiscence room.

The mixed tenure accommodation provides 100 affordable rental units, 90 shared ownership units and 68 private sale units.

The main circulation routes within the building have been designed around atria and winter gardens that flood the centre of the building with natural light.

Client: The ExtraCare Charitable Trust

Completed: May 2007


Value: 27 million


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Learning Disabilities and Special Education Needs

The Sector

A number of local authorities and not for profit organisations are leading the way in terms of developing much needed housing, care and learning resources for children and adults with learning disabilities and often physical impairments too.

Our experience ranges from accommodation for people returning to the community after living in more institutional environments, to special education schools with residential facilities.

Our Approach

Our philosophy behind this type of accommodation is to create environments where the residents can be given the opportunity to live as independently as possible within a domestic environment.

Each scheme is designed to be as inclusive as possible to meet the full range of individual needs and wishes, while retaining the flexibility to facilitate adaptation for the future.

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RNIB Pears Centre for Specialist Learning Coventry

This is a new campus for the RNIB which provides an exemplar facility for blind and partially sighted children with additional severe physical and cognitive impairments. The new facilities provide a social environment that minimises the impact of the young peoples disabilities and prioritises meeting their needs in a holistic way.

The development provides a 60 bed childrens home arranged within 10, six bed houses and a new secondary school which provides education for the 60 young people living on site plus 10 day pupils from the surrounding area.

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Client: Royal National Institute of Blind People Completed: December 2011

Role: Architecture Landscape Architecture Interior Design Environmental Services Project Management

Value: 23.5 million

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Further Projects

The Space, Barnet

A new Resource Centre which is aimed at promoting the independence of service users with high care needs. The building contains specialist support spaces and open-plan areas for maximum flexibility.

Carrswood, Bath

One of three Centres of Excellence for older people which includes a large resource centre for older people with dementia and adults with learning and physical disabilities.

Flower Lane, Barnet

One of three new Resource Centres which form part of the reprovision of learning disabilities services and facilities in the LB of Barnet. The designs focus on integration with the community and promoting independence for those with autism.

September Court, Barnet

This block of eight flats in Barnet also incorporates shared communal facilities for the residents, all of whom have learning disabilities. They have all thrived since moving from institutional care settings.

Pert Close, Barnet

Eight supported flats which provide accommodation for people returning to the community after living in a more institutional environment. Each flat has been designed to meet the specific needs of the residents.

Abbotswood, Rustington

A new Extra Care scheme which provides 62 flats, six of which were designed for a group of people with learning disabilities who were identified as needing a new housing option.

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Interior Design for Specialist Housing

designing the internal spaces for old or young requires specialist skills.

Our interior designers offer an unrivalled understanding of this sector. Embedded within the Specialist Housing Group of architects and designers at PRP, we offer a complete design solution.

We have recently written a factsheet for the Housing LIN; Can Interior Design Improve the Quality of Life in Extra Care Housing? as a discussion tool and aid when designing housing for older people.

We specialise in providing unique design solutions to a wide range of clients within the Specialist Housing market, including concept work, specification and procurement of bespoke and contract items.

Our approach to interior design is about helping clients to optimise the use and aesthetics of any given space. PRP has a strong track record in creating practical and inspiring interiors in partnership with clients, design teams and end users. We tailor our services to suit the requirements of each project, designing high quality interiors that clients and residents alike will enjoy and take pride in.

For more information contact:Michael Sandford, Associate

Tel: +44 (0)20 8339 3079 Mobile: +44 (0)7712 397 774 [email protected]

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Landscape Design for Specialist Housing

We are dedicated to the design of landscapes for sheltered, extra Care and retirement communities that are beautiful, stimulating, functional, secure and sustainable.

PRP regards landscape design as an integral part of the architectural process. This is especially true in the field of specialist housing where the therapeutic benefits of an attractive and carefully planned external living environment are well recognised.

Each site has its own particular character, opportunities and constraints, however, it is imperative in specialist housing schemes that certain key design principles are upheld.

These include the provision of views and free access to secure garden space, opportunities for resident participation in recreational or gardening activities, sensory stimulation and connection with wildlife and seasonal variation.

For more information contact:Tom Delhanty, Associate


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Specialist Housing Team

Clare Cameron (Surrey) Director


Jenny Buterchi (Surrey) Director


Roger Battersby Managing Partner

Tel: +44 (0)20 8339 3600 [email protected]

Steve Hynds (Surrey) Director


Graham Locke (Manchester) Director


Anne Marie Nicholson Partner


Mark Walker (Surrey) Associate Director


Justin Bannister (Surrey) Associate Director


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London

PRP 10 Lindsey Street Smithfield London EC1A 9HP

Tel: +44 (0)20 7653 1200

[email protected]

Surrey

PRP Ferry Works Summer Road Thames Ditton Surrey KT7 0QJ

Tel: +44 (0)20 8339 3600

[email protected]

Manchester

PRP Century House 11 St Peters Square Manchester M2 3DN

Tel: +44 (0)161 242 8950 [email protected]

Office Contacts

London Surrey Manchester

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