Location: London Road, East Croydon
Client: Metropolitan Housing Trust
Description: A mixed-use, affordable housing scheme
Value: £2.75M
Start / Completion: Spring 2006 - Winter 2007
Notes:

16 one & two bedroom flats over two floors of community facilities and workspace with conference facilities. CHRC will be the first building in the masterplan development of a large urban site, and its form reflects the complex site constraints. It is a 5-storey, steel frame building with precast concrete hollow core floor decks, thermally massive inner leaf construction, and superinsulation throughout. Wind cowls assist the natural ventilation with heat recovery, the low-energy strategy is to deliver 40% reduction of carbon emissions using a biomass boiler and roof mounted wind turbines. The scheme is a zero parking development.