Cook Street

We have been selected by Wheatley Group to design high quality homes for affordable housing, featuring spaces for home working and well-designed external areas to encourage social interaction. Situated in the Tradeston Area of the city, the Cook Street site spans an entire city block and has lain undeveloped since the closure and demolition of a school and industrial buildings on the site in the late 20th Century.

The project aims to achieve community-focused regeneration, deliver new high-quality, affordable homes, promote active travel and public transport, implement renewable heating and low-carbon sustainable design, and consider neighbouring listed buildings of architectural and historical significance.

The plan includes 112 new dwellings for mid-market rent, consisting of 1, 2, & 3 bedroom properties. Additionally, 10% of the properties will be designated for individuals with physical disabilities or wheelchair users. The proposal offers a mix of flats and maisonettes with access to high-quality private open space, limited resident parking, landscape design, sustainable urban drainage, bike storage, and refuse collection provisions.

The design addresses and responds to three neighbouring listed buildings and aims to bring a tenemental density back to this area of the city. Comprising taller 6-storey block at the northeast corner of the site and a smaller 4-storey block to the south and west, a mixture of construction techniques are proposed including off-site manufactured timber frame.