When we undertake a new-build housing project, we always have two priorities in mind: how to obtain maximum value and ensuring the commercial viability of your scheme.
With rigorous analysis, thorough appraisal and creative brainstorming, we formulate solutions to take advantage of your location and achieve viable housing developments. We’ll explore various options for best use of your site, advise you on essential timescale and budget considerations and help you maximise your ROI.
When we undertake a new-build housing project, we always have two priorities in mind: how to obtain maximum value and ensuring the commercial viability of your scheme.
With rigorous analysis, thorough appraisal and creative brainstorming, we formulate solutions to take advantage of your location and achieve viable housing developments. We’ll explore various options for best use of your site, advise you on essential timescale and budget considerations and help you maximise your ROI.
Getting the correct scale to fit the existing character of your site’s location is key to planning permission success – as is the use of high-quality materials and finishes and the successful implementation of landscape especially along frontages.
As chartered architects and planners with extensive knowledge in new-build schemes, we provide accurate and up-to-date guidance on relevant planning policy considerations for your housing development, from scale and appearance to building design and access. We’ll submit your application by showing how your development respects and reflects local area character and existing street scenes, promotes safe and attractive residential layouts and supports local distinctiveness and identity.
We consider every aspect of residential living, including the interaction of interior and exterior spaces, and intertwining of private and public life. With meticulous attention to detail, our residential building designs are tailored for contemporary lifestyles, able to accommodate future developments and adapt to social, economic, and environmental changes.
We deliver spacious, intuitive building designs and layouts that successfully overcome site constraints and contribute positively to wider residential areas.
Once we’ve secured planning permission for your new-build flats, we progress to the Technical Design + Building Regulations stage, followed by the Contract Administration + Construction Inspection stage, where your idea will be brought to fruition.
By sourcing energy-efficient materials and advanced technology and smart construction techniques, we aim to create high-quality environments that are feasible to build and maintain. We always strive for sustainability and profitability and deliver results that are on time and on budget. We’ll oversee every aspect of your construction to deliver your design concept and maximise your investment potential.
We strive to deliver ideal housing developments using technical ability, aesthetic sensitivity, thoughtful and ground-breaking design and reliable construction.
BA(Hons) MA
Managing Director
As new build housing architects & town planners, we have experience of dealing with all the questions that come with designing flats. That includes realising that the key sum involved isn't as simple as dividing the GIA of the building by the size of a flat and coming up with the number of apartments.
Factors we know we have to think about include the national space standards, a decent supply of light to every unit, policies requiring dual-aspect flats, communal and private amenity space, stairs and lifts that meet building regulations, cycle storage and bins.
Rather than a basic sum, what we end up with is often quite a complicated puzzle. The best new build housing architects & town planners are the ones who can solve that puzzle in a way that offers appealing and highly livable apartments at the same time as a healthy ROI for developers.
The kind of block of flats architects you should work with are the kind who genuinely enjoy designing medium and high-rise buildings. They should be well-versed in how to create homes that are fireproof and accessible, and will have learned the lessons from architectural failings of the past. They should be equally skilled when dealing with studio flats as grand penthouses, affordable units and high-end homes.
At Urbanist Architecture, we are passionate about new build housing design because for us this is the most personalised and bespoke service we can offer. We love making a difference, no matter how large or small, to people’s lives. Our approach is to design new residential buildings with purpose in mind; we are responsive to who will use the space, and how the space will be used.
As architects and planning consultants specialising in new build flats and apartments, we always endeavour to think outside the box of traditional residential and domestic space planning. Every brief is an exciting opportunity to rethink and explore new spatial possibilities and stretch our imagination, whether it is a redevelopment of a small site, infill or backland plot or green belt land. With every residential building project, we always make sure to assess the viability of the site in order to take maximum advantage of what the plot has to offer.
With a clear understanding of our client’s goals and objectives, we create realistic concepts to deliver functional and aesthetic spaces. We take into consideration every aspect of residential living, including the interaction of interior and exterior spaces, and the intertwining of private and public life. By paying attention to every little detail our designs are tailored for contemporary lifestyles, yet able to accommodate future developments, as well as adapt to social, economic, and environmental changes; we engineer intelligent new housing designs that evolve as life evolves. We believe that flexibility is paramount for achieving sustainability and longevity.
Our residential design services for new build apartments encompasses a wide range of housing types, and we develop strategies for a whole spectrum of requirements. We design housing for young and elderly people alike, as well as student residences and care homes, and develop solutions for creating ROI focused new build flats for leading developers. From concept design to technical design, our astute and intuitive approach allows us to deliver the ideal living quarters for all our clients with technical ability, aesthetic sensitivity, intelligent design, and reliable construction.
We are a multidisciplinary team of architects, planning consultants, interior designers and project managers offering multiple services under one roof. When you work with our firm, you have the support of our entire studio behind you - no matter what.
Extensions with extra space, light, comfort and good vibes
Conversion of houses into multiple flats with greatest return
Custom houses with refined and beautifully proportioned spaces
Block of flats with maximum value and commercial viability
New use class system with huge opportunities and flexibility
HMO conversions with decent standards and maximum yields
We specialise in crafting creative design and planning strategies to unlock the hidden potential of developments, secure planning permission and deliver imaginative projects on tricky sites
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