Architecture

HTA’s architectural approach balances strong urban design principles with refined responses to the site’s sensitive context and industrial heritage. The design creates a bold yet carefully modelled form that mediates between Parkhouse Street and the open landscape of Burgess Park. Its C-shaped layout frames a central courtyard and unlocks permeability through the site via a new green link.

The scheme introduces 109 homes and over 1,300sqm of commercial workspace, accommodating creative businesses in line with Southwark’s vision for the area. Homes are split across three blocks, with varied heights and articulated massing that reduce visual impact at key edges. 84% of dwellings are dual aspect, and 35% are affordable, including family-sized and wheelchair-accessible homes.

Materially, the buildings reflect local character through a robust, gridded language and a simplified palette of brick and aluminium cladding. Setbacks and variation in tone help break down the scale, while rooflines and façades are animated by balconies and planting. At ground level, workspace frontages activate the street and help embed the development in a new mixed-use neighbourhood emerging along Parkhouse Street.