The preferred option shows 79 flats arranged in a double banked plan form over 7 storeys with a single controlled common entrance hall combining as a social meeting hub for the residents, along with adjacent supporting and servicing facilities to provide a successful model of managed private rental accommodation.
This type of housing is intended to deliver much needed affordable and flexible private rental flats, fully furnished and of varying lengths of tenancy and is particularly suited to the demographic of key workers in the hospital and to more general inner city urban living.
The south gable flats are turned end on maximising the number of residencies that can enjoy the magnificent south west aspect of the Necropolis landscape and Cathedral Precinct.This elevation, overlooking the Cemetery, is therefore nearly fully glazed, set behind a formal classical tabulated frame of balconies providing valuable private amenity as well as civic stature, identity and welcoming openess to the built form appropriate to this significant address. The incorporation of a communal amenity roof garden terrace partly covered and set behind the corner gable frame and a return colonnade contribute further to the expression of significance and relationship with the Necropolis and the City beyond.
All other upper floor flats are given generous cantilevered balconies, providing private threshold and amenity and affording views and aspect for all residents while also setting up a repeating pattern of projecting balconies to enliven and enrich the brick facades.
