Client: Optivo
Employers Agent: Pellings
Size and Scale: 49 Units
Duration: 80 weeks
Project Value: £10m
Completed: March 2022
Scope:
• 49 New dwellings, 6 Storey building comprising 8nr 1 bedroom, 35nr 2 bedroom, and 6nr 3 bedroom apartments, with external terraced areas.
• Provision of associated amenity areas, cycle parking, refuse & recycling store.
Form of Construction:
• RC Frame
• CFA Piled Foundations
• SFS and facing bricks to façade
• Felt Bauder green roof system
We’re proud to have delivered these much needed homes to Croydon, a town where
we’ve over 4,000 homes already.
This development has proven extremely popular and all the homes, which are
London Affordable Rent, are now occupied.
We worked in partnership with contractor Guildmore and employer’s agent Pellings on the homes at Foxley Lane.
Interesting Features:
• External play area
• Winter Gardens to apartments providing an extended living space out into the fresh air, creating a versatile indoor-outdoor space for year round use
Environmental contribution:
• PV Panels
Challenges and Solutions:
• Control of deliveries and vehicle movements on a very busy Purley Lane gyratory, we secured approval and license with TFL and HIghways to implement a temporary pit lane system, with no impatct to the
regular flow of main traffic, and furthermore emplyed a full time banksman and traffic marshall to
co-ordinate all scheduled deliveries planned in advance, maintaining safe segregation to pedestrians and facilitating the safe movement of delivery vehicles.
Paul Hackett CBE, Chief Executive at Optivo GUILDMORE LTD 61 Widmore Road • Bromley • BR13AA T 02083135050 E enquiries@guildmore.com www.guildmore.com
