Croydon Council established Brick by Brick in 2016 to accelerate the delivery of new homes for Croydon residents with both private and affordable properties to buy and rent.  The local plan is to build 32,890 new homes across the borough by 2036.

We were appointed by Brick by Brick to provide 28 new residential units, 12 flats in Block A and 16 flats and duplexes in Block B, within 2-4 storey buildings, both timber framed buildings.  Both sites are proposed as car-free for new residents except for 3 spaces associated with the wheelchair accessible homes in Block B.

Block A has a larger commercial unit on the ground floor level (continuing the line of secondary retail frontage from Church Street) as well as a sheltered residents’ garden above. Block B is predominantly 4 storeys onto Drummond Road, with a roofline broken by a series of inset balconies at upper level. These balconies also serve to bring the building line down to three storeys adjacent to the houses north of Tamworth Place. Part of the 3rd and 4th floor steps back along the boundary with Tamworth Place to reduce the impact of the proposal in keeping with the more domestic scale setting.