About this home:

The end user, who has a rare condition and uses a wheelchair from time to time, her husband is also dealing with early onset Alzheimer. Therefore the design of the house was to make it as easy as possible to get around the house, both from a physical and mental standpoint. It was also built with 10 students from disadvantaged backgrounds over 12 months. There is no concrete anywhere near this build!

Planning Insights:

9 months at planning

The project was conceived as an isolated site and therefore Paragraph 55 (now 84) the driving policy, but the council deemed that it was close enough to the village and fitted in with local policy enough to pass it without it needing to follow all of the P84 tests. This was in 2017, so would likely get more of a challenge on the term 'isolation', which has now been more precisely defined through appeals and the courts.