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The use of untreated timber, cladding and fencing has created a visually striking environment
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Environmentally sustainable development of social housing, in a plot largely dominated by run down, seaside chalets in Essex
A new community centre and workshop units have been designed as part of an innovative scheme for 40 new homes along the beach front.
Orientation was a key design factor. All living rooms and bedrooms face south or west and have large windows for passive solar gain and planted pergolas for shading. There are minimal windows in the north and east elevations (from where the prevailing winds blow), which are rendered and further protected by a shelter belt of new trees.
Contrasting with the chalets’ constantly peeling paintwork, the western red cedar timber cladding requires minimal maintenance and has a life expectancy of 60 years.
Data
- Begun: Jun 1999
- Completed: Jul 2000
- Floor area: 3,070m2
- Sector: Residential
- Total cost: £2.6M
- Funding: Capital Challenge Fund and the Guinness Trust
- Procurement: JCT1
- Address: Broadway, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, CO15 2EG, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Pollard Thomas Edwards architects
- Project architects: Andrew Beharrell, Peter Furley, Tracey Hart
- Client: Guinness Trust
- Quantity surveyor: Burr and Neve
- Structural engineer: Rchard Jackson partnernship
- Services engineer: Fulcrum Consulting engineers
- Main contractor: Galliford Hodgson Ltd
- Landscape architect: Bell Fischer Landscape Architects
Suppliers
- Cedar roof shingles: John Brash and Co.
- Timber superstructure: Prestoplan purpose