City Park West

 by  Pollard Thomas Edwards 

 Client Notting Hill Genesis  

 Award RIBA East Award  2023

City Park West is an impressively ambitious redevelopment of a city centre brownfield site for a social housing client, Notting Hill Genesis. The brief was to provide a range of housing aimed at a broad mix of Chelmsford’s population, alongside some commercial retail and leisure space. The client chose to retain ownership of the whole development, renting out the housing at both affordable and market rates. To this, the architects added their own aspirations: to use the development as an opportunity to restitch this large, previously abandoned site back into the fabric of the city centre.   

Read the full citation from the RIBA Awards Jury on RIBA Journal.

Contractor Bouygues UK (Phase 1), Higgins (Phase 2) 

Landscape Architect AREA Landscape Architects 

Environmental / M&E Engineer WSP Baskingstoke 

Environmental / M&E Engineer Whitecode 

Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultant  Arcadis

Gross Internal area in m2  65822