ABSTRACT
Parkside is located on an active pedestrian route that cuts through the busy town centre giving convenient access to local shops and a footbridge across the river to the nearby Hall Leys Park. The street-level arcade reduces the massing of the building and animates the street scene. Although designed on a tight budget, the completed development is suitable for all generations and incorporates HAPPI recommendations to allow people to remain in their own homes into old age. The Royal Borough of Greenwich approached Bell Phillips Architects to consider new housing developments on six semi-derelict, garage sites owned by the council. The ‘little houses’ to the north define a street frontage and provide a contemporary response to the Union Street vernacular, while the garden apartments relate to the more industrial buildings to the rear of the High Street.
