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Rural Housing Scheme, Danby
The scheme involves design for the provision of 6 new two storey dwellings, arranged around a new private drive on a site at Dale End in the village of Danby, in the North York Moors National Park.
The six units are grouped into two blocks; one pair, and one group of four, around a new private drive with turning head, to the rear of Danby village hall. The layout has been designed fully in compliance with secured by design standards.
Care has been taken to only develop over part of the site, allowing the potential for future development, and preserving access to the agricultural land beyond the site's eastern boundary.
Materials and proportions of the units pick up on the feedback arising from pre-application consultation with the local planning authority, incorporating natural stone to external walls, sills and heads with red pantiles to the roofs. Gutters are supported on gutterspikes, with no eaves boards, and windows are softwood painted white. Window proportions emphasise verticality with one, two and three bay variations, again echoing vernacular fenestration detailing.
Landscaping of the site's contours will be minimal, as the units have been arranged to work as closely with the existing site levels as possible. The northern and eastern boundaries of the site will be enclosed using a hawthorn hedge. Divisions between units will be 1.8 metre high timber palisade fencing to the rears and 1.2 metre high timber palisade fencing to the fronts.