Project Description: 11 no. dwellings Croft Farm & Sea Farm, Yorkletts, Kent
Occupancy level: The properties range from 3 – 5 bedroom dwellings.
Planning Granted: Obtaining planning permission was challenging and had to be approached very carefully, in total planning was obtained across multiple planning applications spanning over around 5 years.
Procurement Method: Fully managed by client supplemented by appointing individual subcontractors and purchasing high value materials direct from suppliers.
Construction Technique: Combination of mass concrete trench fill foundations and piled foundations all with suspended beam & block ground floor structure, traditional cavity external walls finished in dark stained cladding & facing brickwork. Oak posts were also used to support entrance areas which is a nice touch.
Blackrock Architecture Appointment: Full working drawings, address planning conditions, assembly details, conveyancing plan, full materials and workmanship specification. Ad-hoc support during construction phase. We also provided numerous assistance in the planning process itself along with working directly for the eventual homeowners to further extend the properties, add garages and outbuildings.
Our client follows our core values of using modern techniques along with traditional, time and tested principles. No hollow walls here with no expense spared from the ground up! Quality family homes have been designed and built with excessive off-street parking, large gardens and wide access roads. Financial gain was certainly not the only driving factor with this development and an end-result that the entire team would be proud to call their own home was the mindset right from the start.
We were so impressed with the development that we bought one of the properties as our personal home and can honestly say it was one of the best decisions we have ever made. A combination of gas central heating and air course heat pumps have been used along with the following as standard throughout the development:
- Amtico flooring
- Oak doors
- Quartz worktops
- Solar thermal panels
- Log burner
We feel this is a great effort all round and our repeat client has once again built fantastic family homes that the entire team should be very proud of.
