Second phase of Sherbourne Residences submitted for planning consent

Planning permission is being sought from Warwick District Council for the next phase of the University of Warwick’s Sherbourne Residences.  The application seeks consent for a second phase of 273 study bedrooms to extend the campus of 550 bedrooms completed in 2012 by Shepherd Construction.

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The application also includes accommodation for staff and a Management & Energy Centre building set in landscaped grounds.

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The project is targeted to achieve BREEAM Excellent and be open to students for the academic year beginning in 2016.

Housman Hall project completes on site

The refurbishment of the former home of  A E Housman has been completed on site and is a further addition to Bromsgrove School’s portfolio of boarding houses.

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It was intended to replace the existing outmoded boarding accommodation on a phased basis, with pupil numbers being maintained at all times.  The new boarding houses are designed to be vernacular in form to fit into the conservation area with contemporary interventions limited to double height structural glazed entrance foyers.

Within the existing listed building the proposals have returned the rooms to their original form and reinserting the Georgian architecture combined with expanding the existing dining area to permit all students at the sixth form campus to sit together for meals.

The proposals preserve and enhance the character of Housman Hall by removing the unsympathetic extensions replacing them with a more appropriate development, retaining the existing listed building and enhancing the building’s mature ‘leafy’ surroundings.  The core philosophy of the site plan was to extend the landscape foil, removing car parking and built form from the centre of the site and relocating it to the perimeter, providing a landscaped setting for the listed building to ‘breathe’.