This modest housing development in Harrow shows how simple yet distinctive design can rethink the ubiquitous suburban home. The project includes twenty seven new homes for Notting Hill Housing Trust on part of a disused greenfield site adjacent to the local Church, Vicarage and Church Hall.

The new homes, which are a mix of family houses and flats, are focussed around a new village green which has transferred into public ownership, safeguarding its future and creating a place for children to play, a morning run or a walk with the dog. The houses are set back from the road with careful articulation of the entrances and landscaped forecourts overlooking the park. Rear gardens are predominantly south facing with access from the living rooms and the street. Expressed gables signify the individual houses and reference surrounding typologies.

The development achieves the now defunct Code for Sustainable Homes level 4 as well as a being designed to Lifetime Homes standards and Secured by Design Gold award. Read more about making a home here