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
Hartelds, 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
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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.
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Projects throughout the UK
The Specialist Housing team is mainly based in our Surrey
oce and handles projects throughout the UK. A number
of projects in the north of the country are serviced by our
Manchester oce.
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 dierence 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 2012
HAPPI Project Award - Pilgrim Gardens, Evington
The British Homes Awards 2012
Best Age-Restricted Development - Prince Charles House
Housing Innovation Awards 2012
Most Innovative Supported Housing Scheme -
HAPPI Completed Award - Trees Highgate
HAPPI Project Award - St Bedes Extra Care, Bedford
Housebuilder Awards 2011
Best Design - Trees, Highate
HAPPI 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 specic 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 eective and ecient 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 sta
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 PEOPLE Housing
our Ageing
Population:
Plan for
Implementation
Richard Best, APPG Inquiry Chair
Jeremy Porteus, APPG Inquiry Secretary
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UK Specialist Housing Projects
PRP Project Locations
PRP Ofce Locations
Guernsey
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
Staordshire
Suolk
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 reects 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 sta 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 oering 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 tness centre.
Further resident only communal spaces are provided at rst
oor 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% aordable housing scheme for older
people provides 40 Extra Care ats 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 exibility that enables changes
to be made easily in the future.
Shortlisted - Best Design - Housebuilder Awards 2012
Client: Orbit Homes
Due to Complete: March 2013
Role: Architecture
Interior Design
Value: 12.9 million
Prince Charles House
St Austell
This compact three-storey building which provides 31
supported ats for older people is the rst signicant
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 ndings.
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
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 oer
opportunities for social interaction.
Client: Christopher Boones Almshouses Charity
Due to Complete: Spring 2016
Role: 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, oering connection to the
garden and aiding orientation.
Client: Pilgrim Homes
Due to Complete: April 2013
Role: Architecture
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
exible 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.
All ats 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 ats are very generous.
Client: Merton Priory Homes (Circle 33)
Due to Complete: Early 2014
Role: Architecture
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 oers a
high quality and well detailed urban design which ts 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
benet from private amenity space in the form of balconies
and patio space for ground oor apartments.
Client: Hanover Housing Association
Due to Complete: Autumn 2014
Role: Architecture
Value: 6 million
Independent Living Apartments
Further Projects
Trailway Court, Blandford Forum
The development for Synergy Housing Group comprises 40
Extra Care ats 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 rst 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 aordable dwellings for rent for BPHA
with additional communal, administrative and
ancillary accommodation which replaces an existing
outdated sheltered housing scheme.
This award winning scheme provides 64 Extra Care mixed
tenure ats 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 suering from dementia.
Newman Court, Basingstoke
A new agship 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 aordable rent and a new social care day centre.
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23 RESI DENTIAL CARE AND NURSI NG HOMES
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 dierent 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.
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 2010
Shortlisted - Civic Trust Award 2009
Our Ladys Convent
Loughborough
Client: The Sisters of Providence, Rosminian Order
Completed: August 2007
Role: Architecture
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 oered 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 oer
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 specic 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 ve 15 bed clusters with dedicated lounge/dining
room and facilities in each - one of which is specically
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 oors 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
specic care.
Coombe Lane West, Kingston Upon Thames
This new build nursing care home provides 92 care suites and
incorporates dementia specic 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 rst involved in designing a retirement village some
15 years ago. Since then we have completed ve 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, exibility and quality of facilities
reecting the rising aspirations of baby boomer retirees.
Retirement communities have a range of benets: security,
freedom from maintenance worries, increased social
interaction, more aordable 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, reecting 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.
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 2011
Winner - 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,
nal phase due to complete 2014
Role: Architecture
Interior Design
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
eld of assistive technology.
Denham Garden Village
Denham
Silver - Best Retirement Development - What House? Awards
Winner - 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
Role: Architecture
Interior Design
Value: 62 million
Extra Care Retirement Village
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.
Hartfelds
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
Role: Architecture
Interior Design
Value: 27.5 million
The ExtraCare Charitable Trusts brief was based on a model
which has been rened on each successive development
since the completion of their rst retirement village. The model
provides the accommodation in the form of a large block of
ats 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 benet from more generous oor
to ceiling heights.
Lovat Fields
Milton Keynes
Other village centre facilities include a bar/caf, a craft room, a
woodwork room, shop, library, tness 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 aordable
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 ood the centre
of the building with natural light.
Client: The ExtraCare Charitable Trust
Completed: May 2007
Role: Architecture
Value: 27 million
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Photograph Richard Bailey
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Learning Disabilities and Special Education Needs
The Sector
A number of local authorities and not for prot 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 exibility to facilitate adaptation for the future.
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
Interior Design
Project Management
Value: 23.5 million
Special Education Needs School and Care Home
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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 exibility.
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 ats 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 ats which provide accommodation for
people returning to the community after living in a more
institutional environment. Each at has been designed to
meet the specic needs of the residents.
Abbotswood, Rustington
A new Extra Care scheme which provides 62 ats, six of which
were designed for a group of people with learning disabilities
who were identied 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 oer an unrivalled understanding
of this sector. Embedded within the Specialist Housing
Group of architects and designers at PRP, we oer 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, specication 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
michael.sandford@prparchitects.co.uk
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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 eld of
specialist housing where the therapeutic benets 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
Tel: +44 (0)20 8339 3674
Mobile: +44 (0)7714 411 890
tom.delhanty@prparchitects.co.uk
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Specialist Housing Team
Clare Cameron (Surrey)
Director
Tel: +44 (0)20 8339 3074
Mobile: +44 (0)7712 397 762
clare.cameron@prparchitects.co.uk
Jenny Buterchi (Surrey)
Director
Tel: +44 (0)20 8339 3065
Mobile: +44 (0)7712 398 081
jenny.buterchi@prparchitects.co.uk
Roger Battersby
Managing Partner
Tel: +44 (0)20 8339 3600
roger.battersby@prparchitects.co.uk
Steve Hynds (Surrey)
Director
Tel: +44 (0)20 8339 3618
Mobile: +44 (0)7879 473 395
stephen.hynds@prparchitects.co.uk
Graham Locke (Manchester)
Director
Tel: +44 (0)161 242 8967
Mobile: +44 (0)7818 423 182
graham.locke@prparchitects.co.uk
Anne Marie Nicholson
Partner
Tel: +44 (0)20 8339 3085
Mobile: +44 (0)7740 305 390
am.nicholson@prparchitects.co.uk
Mark Walker (Surrey)
Associate Director
Tel: +44 (0)20 8339 3661
Mobile: +44 (0)7715 510 393
mark.walker@prparchitects.co.uk
Justin Bannister (Surrey)
Associate Director
Tel: +44 (0)20 8339 3057
Mobile: +44 (0)7715 122 585
justin.bannister@prparchitects.co.uk
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London
PRP
10 Lindsey Street
Smitheld
London EC1A 9HP
Tel: +44 (0)20 7653 1200
lon.prp@prparchitects.co.uk
Surrey
PRP
Ferry Works
Summer Road
Thames Ditton
Surrey KT7 0QJ
Tel: +44 (0)20 8339 3600
prp@prparchitects.co.uk
Manchester
PRP
Century House
11 St Peters Square
Manchester M2 3DN
Tel: +44 (0)161 242 8950
man.prp@prparchitects.co.uk
Ofce Contacts
London Surrey Manchester
www.prparchitects.co.uk

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