OF THE YEAR


REGENERATION PROJECT Sponsored by


Winner: Carters Quay, Poole


This award recognised the revitalisation of brownfield sites and judges considered not just large-scale regeneration projects but also small schemes.


There were three diverse contenders for this penultimate award title of the evening:


• Carters Quay, Poole – Inland Homes


• Cromwell Road, Bournemouth – Pure Town Planning


• The Dormy, Ferndown – Pennyfarthing Homes


The Carters Quay 9.8-acre former brownfield development represents a £60 million investment by Inland Homes towards the regeneration of the waterside at Hamworthy. Formerly home to the Pilkington Tiles factory near Poole Harbour, when completed the mixed-use site will contain almost 300 properties, from one-bedroom apartments to four-bed houses, plus high-quality offices and a new waterside frontage. Carter’s Quay represents the first phase of Hamworthy’s Poole Bridge Regeneration Initiative, ‘unlocked’ by the construction of the £37m Twin Sails Bridge in 2012.


Pure Town Planning transformed an ‘eyesore’ brownfield commercial site at Cromwell Road, Bournemouth into a high-quality residential scheme consisting


of 21 apartments and 13 family houses. Deteriorating light industrial and vacant warehousing made way for a diverse range of residential occupants. Homes were carefully positioned and designed to aesthetically match existing nearby properties, provide suitable rear garden space and to avoid overlooking and overbearing impacts, as the development was bordered on three sides by neighbouring premises.


Created on the derelict former Dormy Hotel site, this Pennyfarthing Homes development has 25 substantial houses of eight deigns, built to be in harmony with its magnificent woodland setting, and importantly the family lifestyles and requirements of the homeowners. The accommodation needs of others have also been answered with a 72-bedroom care home, and 12 affordable homes for local residents. Pennyfarthing has maintained its focus on quality home creation while recognising and meeting the need for the rejuvenation of Ferndown as a community.


Having left the stage as the previous category winners, the Blake Morgan company was once again represented on stage for this category – as sponsors and in the form of Sean Palka, partner and head of real estate at Blake Morgan in Southampton.


With anticipation in the air, Palka opened the THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH COAST – SEPTEMBER 2016


Inland Homes


judges’ envelope to reveal that the winner was the major new infrastructure link and associated regeneration project at Carters Quay, Poole.


Afterwards, Mark Gilpin, planning director at Inland Homes explained how Inland Homes is ‘opening the door’ for regeneration in Poole.


Within the Poole Bridge Regeneration Initiative, Inland’s Carters Quay is the only site actually to have been developed so far within a neighbourhood involving old industrial sites potentially enabling “something like 2,500 residential units, and up to 200,000 sq ft of commercial space.”


“We took the plunge in complete isolation and have tried to create a sense of place, an architectural form and character that is unique to Poole.”


A pioneering project then? “Yes, definitely. It epitomises Inland Homes. We are a forward thinking company and like to get on with things.”


The brownfield Carters Quay development has not been without its difficulties, Gilpin revealed. Obsolete tiling kilns, underground obstructions, industrial contamination had to be cleared and ecological issues resolved before regeneration could progress. Inland Homes has also added sea-wall flood protection.


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