April 8 2022

Planning consent for a 972-home development in Romford has cleared the way for the first inter-generational community in the town.

The mixed-use urban build is to be built around integrated NHS facilities alongside retail, a gym and a fitness trail to help foster a cohesive community where wellbeing doesn't end at your front door.

Led by Ethos Design + Architecture, founded by Fife native Scott Lawrie, the new urban district will rise in the town centre, embedded within enhanced public realm and landscaping.

Lawrie commented: "As a practice specialising in sustainable mixed-use architecture this is an exciting step in how we design cohesive communities going forward.”

Attention now turns to the delivery of the phased project over the coming months.

3 Comments

#1 Posted by SneckieMun on 8 Apr 2022 at 12:29 PM

Romford, England? *shrugs shoulders*

#2 Posted by modernish on 11 Apr 2022 at 12:09 PM

So a doctors surgery and a gym makes it an intergenerational neighbourhood..who knew! Basically, this is a pretty typical super dense London scheme which only works because of the economics involved on the private sale side. Are we supposed to be pleased/impressed that the developers have allowed to let a few older people live there? Just a pity the design team couldn't even have bothered their shorts to show any of them in the renders!

#3 Posted by The Bairn on 11 Apr 2022 at 14:06 PM

And not a snooker table in sight...future Steve Davis clones need not apply.....but seriously I hope the absence of street lighting does not hinder the Urban Quarter tag line that 'its residents (with or without drivers licenses) do not inhabit a dark place'...

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