Beulah Hill SE19

12No two bedroom flats designed specifically for occupation by elderly tenants. English Churches Housing Association used Barefoot Brades and Fanning for the principle design. 

Construction was tricky because the site was steeply sloping and contained many mature trees, some listed. Three heavily reinforced insitu concrete retaining walls, a bridge link at 1st floor level and two reinforced insitu staircases were formed to access ground floor level. The lower retaining wall railings at road level were designed to withstand the impact of heavy vehicles. The site was terraced in three levels and construction included the use of 450mm diameter CFA bored concrete piles and groundbeams, precast and insitu concrete floors, staircases and balcony walkways, traditional masonry cavity external walls with blockwork internal partitions, trussed roofs and high performance double glazed softwood windows. The building sits well back off the main road and blends in extremely well with the surrounding environment.