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with walk-in wardrobe, a shower room, large living room, and storage cupboard. Some apartments have access to outdoor space patios on the ground oor and balconies on the first, second, and third oors.
The two bedroom apartments have similar features, with the addition of a second double bedroom and a separate toilet room, and some also include additional storage space, as well as integrated appliances, anti-slip ooring in shower rooms, and high quality fittings. In terms of security, apartments can view the door camera entry system via their TV, have intruder alarms, access to the 24 hour emergency call system, and illuminated light switches. The idea behind the communal facilities (games room, roof terrace, exercise studio and wellness suite), as marketing manager Declan Fishwick explains, is giving residents the ability to “focus on doing what they love.” The wellness suite will offer beauty treatments, hairdressing, and therapeutic massage, and the games room will cater for various clubs, crafts and activities. A management team is onsite 24/7, and the guest suite offers somewhere for friends and family to stay overnight. Domestic support staff are available to
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assist residents with tasks from general cleaning and changing the bed, to grocery shopping and posting letters.
SUSTAINABILITY & ECOLOGY As with any new development, both Sustainability and ecology were high on the list of priorities for McCarthy Stone, and Brownhill gives the example of mature trees which were protected by a TPO around the site’s periphery but which were “integral to the scheme’s success.” They were used to help establish the developable area, the protection area covering their roots “governing the building footprint’s position.” They also provide a “natural buffer to Stratford Road.”
The ability to bring nature-based SuDS approaches was also harnessed to bring amenity, as Brownhill explains: “A planted swale formed an integral part of the drainage strategy to naturally attenuate and cleanse storm water at source, before entering the wider network.” Brownhill asserts that sustainability is “embedded into the structure” of McCarthy Stone, adding: “With all schemes we adopt a fabric first approach.” At Wheatley Place, a 7 kWh PV array has been provided that ensures that “some of the overall scheme’s energy
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