Beverley Waterside
Mixed use
Barnes, Richmond, London
Sector: Mixed use
Client: WP Development
Status: Under Construction
Budget: £3.5M
Team: Alex Zimmerman, Uli Kraeling, Sirwan Sorani, Steven Pirks, Riley Adams-Winch, Leonardo Pelleriti
Sustainability/Low Carbon Features:
Timber structure
Air-source heat pumps
Photovoltaics
Underfloor heating
This scheme continued WP’s emerging expertise in gaining planning permissions on tight urban industrial sites in residential areas. The site, in Barnes, had been an MOT garage for the last 40 years and alongside this provided a series of small business units to local light industry. It is a challenging site due to the proximity of housing that surrounds it on 3 sides, as well as the historic Beverley Brook that runs alongside the site and associated stormwater culvert that runs underneath and cuts the site in two as it cannot be built over. These factors, along with the protected employment uses, directed the design towards the construction of two new buildings, each with new commercial space on the ground floor to re-provide the employment space, with 9 residential apartments above, facing the road and the brook. This employment-led scheme, will deliver on WP’s commitment to fight climate change, with mass timber used as the primary structural material, a wildflower roof that will actively encourage ecology to return to a site and hearting via heat pumps throughout.
