Overview

Highgate Police Station, London

Project type: New Urban Quarter
Client: Bellway Homes
Stage: Completed

At Highgate Police Station in North London JTP, with Bellway Homes London, has transformed a prominent brownfield corner site to provide 82 mixed tenure homes within an urban environment.

The site is located on Archway Road, a key arterial route into central London, opposite Highgate Woods and within the Highgate Conservation Area. It was formerly home to the Haringey Magistrate’s Court, and an office building known as Telfer House.

The proposals for the new neighbourhood were shaped through an extensive engagement process involving meetings, workshops and exhibitions with the Highgate Society, local residents and the London Borough of Haringey, to ensure the homes were sensitively designed to respond to the context.

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The proposal has been designed to respond to its context yet create a notable, attractive, well composed and well-designed piece of architecture.
Haringey Council’s Design Officer

Project Delivery

  • 82 homes set around a landscaped courtyard, utilising the natural topography and falls of the site to accommodate below-ground parking, and therefore maximising open space
  • 32% affordable homes in a range of sizes, including a high proportion of much-needed family homes
  • A range of innovative typologies including houses, apartments and duplexes address the change in level across the site and meet specific local needs
  • Roof terraces, podium gardens and balconies provide high quality communal and private amenity space for residents. Mature trees are retained across the site
  • The buildings change in scale to respond to the surrounding context and the taller marker building on Archway Road
  • A Vicarage building is incorporated to serve the adjacent church
  • The proposals positively address the three key public frontages to the site, reestablishing street frontages punctuated by front doors to individual homes
  • The main, street-fronting buildings feature a varied and highly articulated facade, with inset balconies, bay features and subtle steps in building heights. Behind these, a more contemporary mews building is set within a landscaped courtyard, intended to be a ‘delightful surprise’ hidden from the main street
Project type: New Urban Quarter
Client: Bellway Homes
Stage: Completed
Project Team
Ian Fenn
Ian Fenn
Partner
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