This ambitious project set out to help reinvigorate and renew the region following the closure of the oil refinery. The Prince’s Foundation wanted to create a community and drove the masterplanning and design of the campus forward.
Over the last two years, The Princes Foundation for Building Community has produced pivotal reports on development and housing. March 2014 saw the launch of ‘Housing London: A Mid-rise Solution’. This report looked at the ever-present issues of affordability and inclusivity facing London’s housing supply. It offered recommendations of how more mid-rise housing could be achieved in the capital...
Like many cities in the developing world, it has experienced major population increases in recent years. With now more than a million inhabitants, coupled with weak land-use planning and enforcement, Sierra Leone has suffered a series of collateral problems. These include degradation of natural resources for building materials, urban sprawl and major deficiencies in public infrastructure...
In 1999 we were invited by the Welsh Development Agency to advise on the creation of a new ‘urban village’ on the site of a former BP oil refinery in South-West Wales. Located between Neath and Swansea, ‘Coed Darcy’ will be an entire new town, built on 1,300 acres of brownfield land.
The development of Coed Darcy is based on our principles of communities with a...
Since independence Jamaica has become increasingly urbanised, triggering increased pressure on housing, employment opportunities and social facilities in Jamaica's cities.
These challenges have persisted in Rose Town, an inner-city neighbourhood in the capital Kingston, which has experienced four decades of political and economic insecurity characterised by violent confrontations and a...
The Swansea University site in Neath is an area of vacant brownfield land formerly used by BP as a transit oil tank farm, to store petroleum. The facility was decommissioned in 2008 and has subsequently undergone site clearance work, but is still in need of environmental remediation to remove pollution and contaminants.
