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CASE STUDY 19


Government, “and you can probably imagine that it was as far from what you would want it to be in order to turn it into a residential site.”


“So,” Niccolò continues, “the tasks ahead were huge, especially because we had facades of merit over a vast perimeter of the site, and a Grade II listed building in between.”


He knew from the start that the team would have to completely alter the Grade II listed building, and add some mezza- nine floors in order to create the spaces they desired. To do so, they would have to demolish the remaining structure of the site, keeping only the facades, and then build a completely new frame from the ground up. “As with most restoration projects,” he adds, “we expected to run into some unforeseen complications during the development process, but also felt prepared to solve whatever might come up at any given time.”


BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD Northacre ultimately decided to take the plunge and buy the site, which came with an already-existing full planning consent for a residential development. This however, was reportedly unsatisfactory for the developer’s end goals.


“We did not feel that the site had been properly conceived, and that the scheme really met the needs of high-end users in terms of the arrival sequence, the parking, the layout of the apartments and the aspects of the apartments – as well as the percentage of dual aspect apartments, and so on,” says Niccolò.


So, the developer went back to the drawing board and “dramatically changed” the plans.


In the end, among the changes that the extended planning permission allowed for were the mezzanine floors the developer desired. These enabled the repositioning of the windows in the rear facade, which was also secured by restoring some heritage objects that were lost in the previous redevelopment. Niccolò gives an example: “All the chimneys on the roofs have been put back as they were in the 1870s, and we changed the front portico to what it origi- nally was. “We also embarked on a pain-staking


review of the existing timber panelling in the entrances to basically restore them as they were over 150 years ago.”


ARRIVAL SEQUENCE


Niccolò tells me that from here, as in all Northacre’s developments, the team started with the “arrival sequence” for


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