Hattersley: Housing/Extra Care

PROJECT: Hattersley: Housing/Extra Care

SUMMARY: New extra care housing development, providing apartment living for over-55's, with associated access, local community facilities, car-parking and landscaping.

Designed to meet a range of current and future needs for modern, adaptable housing for older generations in Tameside; sited on an existing brownfield site, with complex topography, the scheme forms a central part of a greater masterplan development with the aim of encouraging the growth of a local community of multi-generational residents in the local area.

Consisting of 91 self-contained 1 & 2 bed Category 2 apartments, including a number of apartments designed to meet Part M Category 3, the development will provide a mix of public and privately accessible spaces that are designed to serve the local community as well as residents. These include a publicly accessible café and dining area, hobby rooms, communal lounge, guest accommodation, hair & beauty facilities and a private garden and courtyard space for residents.

The former Hattersley District Centre, having been demolished and relocated, created a significant area of vacant brownfield land suitable for residential development. Focusing on tenure diversification, and a need to provide modern housing for Hattersley’s ageing population, the overall development provides 70 high-quality houses alongside the Extra Care Housing apartment building.

Dwellings are designed to step across the steeply sloped site with bespoke split-level 3-storey townhouses with first floor living rooms overlooking raised private gardens. As a primary thoroughfare in the area, Hattersley Road East acts as a key street scene within the masterplan. The townhouses along Hattersley Road East have been elegantly crafted to address the changing levels, offering a consistent roofscape before subtly transitioning into the massing of the Extra Care apartment building.

SERVICES: Feasibility studies through detailed design to planning submission. Triangle worked alongside the contractor throughout the design process to develop deliverable proposals to streamline the onward delivery of the scheme.

• CLIENT: ONWARD HOUSING
• LOCATION: Tameside