Journal
OWCH! The Older Women’s Co-Housing Project
In our recent post about later-life co-housing we talked about OWCH, the Older Women’s Co-Housing project in New Barnet, also known as the ‘New Ground’ project. Our Georgie Day wrote a more de
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Atlantic Beach Regeneration Competition: Lewis Williams Has Made It To The Finals!
We are immensely proud of Architectural Assistant Lewis Williams whose submission to the Atlantic Beach Regeneration Competition has been made it to the final round! The competition’s jury anonymo
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Houses & Trees #2 – ‘Wood-Hoods’, ‘Neighbour-woods’ and a True ‘Forest Village’
My recent post about houses and trees was part of a long-standing interest in the topic which is at least as old as a thought-experiment called ‘Forest Village’, which I carried out over a d
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Duke Street Riverside: Design Insights by Anthony Hudson
The dust has settled on Duke Street, the newest building at Norwich University of the Arts’, and we are celebrating its official opening. This gives us an opportunity to look back and mull o
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Senior Co-Housing: ‘Right-Sizing’ Later-Life Accommodation
McCarthy & Stone have recently published research which suggests a third of older people in the UK would consider moving house to ‘right-size’ their later-life accommodation, but the lack o
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Hickling Passive House warmed up with “only a few candles”: Here’s How It Works!
It was great to see this short piece from the BBC about a family heating their ‘Passivhaus’ home in Hickling with just a few candles! A group from Hudson Architects visited the site back in 201
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Apprenticeship Week : My Road To Becoming Practice Manager at Hudson Architects
Hello! My name is Hannah and I currently work as the Practice Manager for Hudson Architects. As it’s national apprenticeship week, I wanted to share a bit about the pathway to my current role, in
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Houses and Trees
The latest update of the National Planning Policy Frame (NPPF*), includes an enchantingly simple new requirement that local planning policies and planning decisions should ensure that ‘all new st
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Self Build on a Serviced Plot: Expert Q & A with Architect Matt Wood
A new policy in Norfolk requires all housing developments of 40 dwellings or more to dedicate at least 5% of those 40 as serviced plots for self-build or custom-build. But what does this actually me
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Big Steps Forward for Self-Build in Norfolk
Our local MP Richard Bacon continues his tireless work championing self-build in the UK with the publication of his ‘Independent Review On A Major Scaling-Up Of Self-Commissioned New Homes’ – o
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