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With development land becoming increasingly scarce, developers and self-builders are seeking out opportunities to redevelop existing plots often to the detriment of immediate neighbours and their localities as a whole, through a pursuit of schemes of an inappropriate scale, density or siting.

South Point avoids all of these potential issues and delivers a stunning response to the opportunities and constraints of its site.

Two dwellings have been provided on the former site of a bungalow which are identical in plan but handed and offset to each other creating a view through the development to landscape beyond and privacy between the units. The two dwellings are simply conceived as a masonry plinth accommodating garaging and entrance hall cut into the contours of the site. This leads to an open ended, two storey timber clad box above, housing bedrooms and open plan living spaces, communicating directly with the private garden spaces to the rear of the property or the dramatic panorama of Poole Harbour to the front. The communal, open plan living areas situated on the upper floors enjoy both aspects and are impressive in their extrovert nature and spacious volume.

The finishes employed throughout the scheme, both internally and externally, are high quality and the detailing is considered, crisp and resolved.

South Point is conceptually simple, highly responsive to its setting and beautifully finished and sets a benchmark for other similar developments to emulate and aspire to.