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Rural Housing Schemes, Castleton
The scheme involves design for the provision of 6 new two storey dwellings, arranged around a new extension to Ash Grove, Castleton, in the North York Moors National Park.
The six units are grouped into two blocks of three units, around a new turning head, developed at the end of an existing cul-de-sac. the layout has been designed fully in compliance with secured by design standards. As the greenfield site is a rural exception to the green belt policy usually in place, care has been taken to minimise land take, allowing the potential for future development, and preserving access to the agricultural land beyond the site's western boundary.
Materials and proportions of the units pick up on the feedback arising from pre-application consultation with the local planning authority, incorporating a render finish to external walls, natural stone sills and heads with red pantiles to the roofs. Gutters are supported on gutterspikes, with no eaves boards, and windows are white upvc frames. 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 existing dry stone wall to the site's western boundary will be repaired and re-built as required as part of the works, whilst the north and south boundaries will be protected by newly planted hawthorn hedges. 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