This award winning project saw the creation of a new, high quality sustainable community providing much needed affordable homes and the regeneration of a rundown quarter of Southampton in a socially responsible manner.

Stakeholder and public consultation played a significant part in the development of the scheme which was seen as a catalyst for the creation of a sustainable development zone to the east of the city centre.

The design re-establishes the historic urban grain of St Mary’s and ensures a series of well-defined public and private realm streets and spaces. The three residential blocks have a compact footprint which provides good permeability and connectivity with adjacent areas. The development includes 174 dwellings, 37% of which are affordable housing in a mix of one and two bedroom flats, maisonettes and town houses over three perimeter blocks surrounding communal courtyards.

“I don’t think we’ve seen a better development since we’ve been doing Building for Life.”

Wayne Hemingway, Chair of Building for Life