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Bristol: 01275 371333 Wakefield: 01924 562888 Exeter: 01392 640046
From new multi occupancy residential developments, to smaller scale refurbishments and extensions, we provide innovative designs for a wide range of residential projects. We are regularly appointed at the early stages of projects, providing specialist advice in support of planning applications, undertaking flood risk assessments, developing drainage strategies and appraising site conditions in order that abnormal costs can be identified and risks managed. We have an excellent working relationship with local authority highways departments and drainage undertakers, allowing us to provide initial advice at master-planning stage.
Client: Cotswold Homes
Value: £1m – £5m
This new development in Chipping Sodbury consisted of the construction of 58 new homes and 2 blocks of flats with associated infrastructure and parking. Craddys provided the structural design works in relation to the substructure and superstructure elements. This included bespoke steel elements, connection designs, retaining walls, plot specific piled foundations and external timber carports.
Client: Blue Cedar Homes
Value: £1m – £5m
Craddys were appointed for structural and civil engineering works for 10 new houses and apartments for Blue Cedar Homes. Bespoke house types overlooking the scenic river dart designed using 3D and 2D design and drawing packages to achieve high standard.
Client: Curo Group
Value: £25m
Mulberry Park is a new development consisting of around 700 high quality homes. Craddys are appointed to undertake the civil and structural design for Phases 2, 3 and 4, which consist of units including 4 storey apartments and houses with up to 6 bedrooms, along with the associated highways and drainage infrastructure.
Client: Wiltshire County Council/ Stepnell
Value: £1m – £5m
Craddys provided the civil, structural and highways design for the development of 50 affordable homes in 4 individual land parcels. Phase 1 saw the first half of the development achieving the West of England LABC Award 2019 for best affordable/social new housing development. The engineering challenges associated involved the detailed drainage design to satisfy statutory authorities and provide a drainage system that reduced the site flood risk and optimised the attenuation by modelling and coordinating our design with the existing system. Successful delivery of Phase 2 was completed in September 2020.
Client: Cheriton Bishop Community Land Trust/ Hastoe HA/ Classic Builders
Value: £1m – £5m
Winning the Devon Communities Together award for Best Rural Development (2018-19), this development consisted of 8 residential units, public open space, access road and parking. Craddys provided pre-planning advice and support to Cheriton Bishop Land Trust and Hastoe HA and were novated to Classic Builders in which Craddys then provided detailed civil and structural engineering design for the construction stage.
Client: Juniper Homes
Value: £1m – £5m
On the site of an old Brewery, Craddys conducted the structural design for a small housing development. This involved the original building, dating back to the early 19th century, being converted into apartments and the construction of a terrace of eight new houses.
Client: Bouygues/ Stevenage Borough Council
Value: £5m – £10
This project redeveloped an existing residential site in Stevenage and included 2 blocks comprising 17 apartments, 13 houses and a new community centre in a nearby park. Craddys undertook the civil and structural design for the project working closely with the other members of the design team. The project also included the relocation of the locally renowned ‘King Pin’ installation which is particularly important to local heritage and valued by the community.
Client: Bristol Community Land Trust
Value: £5m – £10m
This community housing scheme still in construction will provide 50 new dwellings consisting of 2, 3 and 4 bedrooms homes. This project has been designed around inclusive shared spaces that encourage interaction and a strong sense of community.
Client: Firmstone Consortia One
Value: £1m – £5m
This development has transformed a disused 4 storey office block into a 6 story residential unit, consisting of 54 one & two bedroom apartments. Craddys were involved in investigatory works to assess the overall condition of the RC frame as well as it’s likelihood to be able to carry the new load from the additional storey. Craddys were able to justify the structure with only minor repairs required, unlocking considerable potential for residential space.
Client: Willmott Partnership Homes
Value: > £10m
This scheme which is still in construction, will see a mixture of 133 houses and flats with associated parking and landscaping built on the 2.7 hectares now-disused part of the Alderman Moore allotment site in Ashton Vale.
Client: Bellway Homes
Value: £1m – £5m
A new development of 97 residential units consisting of 2, 3 and 4 bedroom dwellings with associated infrastructure works .
Client: Knightstone Housing Association
Value: £1m – £5m
This project saw the design of 28 new houses, 9 flats and associated highways, transforming land declared surplus into a perfectly formed community. Each of the dwellings were deigned to meet Code for Sustainable Homes Level 3.
Client: Sovereign Housing Association
Value: £1m – £5m
70 new residential units on former agricultural land. This is a village-style development combining the best of local vernacular and modern housing types.
Client: Knightstone Housing Association
Value: £1m – £5m
A new 42 unit residential development of affordable housing. This project involved the development of multi-storey flats, flats over garages, and individual housing units. The project was assessed under Code for Sustainable Homes, and successfully provided replacement affordable housing with contemporary design and sustainability benefits.
Client: Stonewater
Value: £1m – £5m
The development of 48 new homes each built to Code for Sustainable Homes Level 3 standard. The existing site had deep ground which necessitated remediation and deep strip mass concrete foundations. The drainage is adoptable and includes an adoptable Type 3 pump station.
Client: Knightstone Housing Assosiation
Value: £1m – £5m
The regeneration of an existing housing site to provide 42 social residential units.These were designed with high environment standards and are a huge benefit for the local community.
Client: Bristol City Council
Value: £1m – £5m
The regeneration of an inner city site to provide 66 social housing flats with commercial units on the ground floor. Craddys developed an innovative and creative piling solution in order to mitigate damage to the protected archaeology beneath the site.
Client: Knightstone Housing Association
Value: £1m – £5m
The redevelopment of an existing site to provide 62 dwellings, comprising a mixture of two and three storey houses and apartment buildings adjacent to the Pigeonhouse ‘Wildlife Corridor and Greenway’.
