{"id":79494,"date":"2020-07-17T11:09:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T10:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=79494"},"modified":"2020-07-17T11:09:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T10:09:41","slug":"housing-design-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/housing-design-awards\/79494\/","title":{"rendered":"Q Developments wins Homes England master planning award"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qdevelopments.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Q Developments<\/a> has achieved the best masterplan and placemaking award at this year&#8217;s Housing Design Awards for their housing scheme with an \u201cEnglish village feel\u201d in Alfold, Surrey<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/homes-england\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Homes England<\/a> awarded the best masterplan &amp; placemaking award to Q Developments for its housing scheme in Alfold, Surrey<\/p>\n<p>The masterplan and placemaking category is a first for 2020 and was sponsored by Homes England \u2013 the third year that the agency has supported the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designforhomes.org\/project\/housing-design-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Housing Design Awards<\/a>, which have been handed out this week.<\/p>\n<p>The project will deliver 56 new homes via a mixture of houses and apartments arranged around a shared village landscape, which allows for new future connections with the existing village and amenities.<\/p>\n<h3>A mixed community of future occupants<\/h3>\n<p>Leigh Johnson, head of master development at Homes England, said: \u201cCongratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnpardeyarchitects.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Pardey Architects<\/a>, Q Developments and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waverley.gov.uk\/site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Waverley Borough Council<\/a>. Their winning design is all about creating that elusive English village feel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis masterplan meets all the criteria of the BFL12 design guidance and its response to the site\u2019s local distinctiveness with clear pedestrian and cycle routes through the site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a scheme that puts people and the homes at its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/planning-system-reforms\/73249\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heart of design<\/a> and not the car, a true mix of tenure and types of homes to deliver a thriving and mixed community of future occupants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHomes England and Design for Homes chose to include the new award to demonstrate that good quality, well-considered masterplans are key to delivering successful places to live.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In fact, I\u2019d like to congratulate all the shortlisted schemes for their contribution to raising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/housing-design-guidance\/79102\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">design standards in housing<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mark Randall, architect at Q Developments, said: \u201cFor over 20 years we have been promoting the value of good design, developing homes in places where people want to live.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following the garden centre\u2019s closure in 2018, we drew upon the history of the Surrey vernacular and historic settlement formations in order to knit this landscape-led scheme into the existing village.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe house types offer generous accommodation on large plots and maximise the opportunities for natural daylighting, energy-efficient contemporary living, and home working.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope that through the award\u2019s recognition of the quality of our scheme, our past award-winning projects and future work, we can continue to promote the value of good residential design whilst regenerating brownfield sites such as this.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q Developments has achieved the best masterplan and placemaking award at this year&#8217;s Housing Design Awards for their housing scheme with an \u201cEnglish village feel\u201d in Alfold, Surrey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[594,997,1004,572,656,669],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-building-design","8":"tag-development","9":"tag-homes-england","10":"tag-housebuilding","11":"tag-housing","12":"tag-regeneration"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Q Developments wins Homes England master planning award<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Q Developments has achieved the best masterplan and placemaking award at this year&#039;s Housing Design Awards for their housing scheme in Alfold, Surrey\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/housing-design-awards\/79494\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Q Developments wins Homes England master planning award\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Q Developments has achieved the best masterplan and placemaking award at this year&#039;s Housing Design Awards for their housing scheme in Alfold, Surrey\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/housing-design-awards\/79494\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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