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Chips will often appear as 3D models, but that's not what they are.

Our projects also look at tangible social benefits.In the Churchwood Gardens project, it was placemaking that led the scheme and was key to the social value of the project.. Bryden Wood worked with Loromah Estates to transform a sloping, landlocked in-fill site in south London with a history of failed planning applications, into a thriving community of residential blocks set in a verdant landscape.

The back-land site had been undeveloped since the 1960s.. A sensitive approach to planning and active engagement with the surrounding residents through early-stage neighbourhood consultation was fundamental to the scheme’s success.We worked together to create a responsible development that minimised impact on the neighbours who had enjoyed open land behind their properties for many years.Our aim was to deliver a scheme that added value to the lives of the local community..

The developer’s forward-looking objective of creating a desirable community of rental apartments has informed a demographic spread within the resident community.Occupancy within the development has remained at 100% since its completion and there is a waiting list, with many residents requesting to purchase their properties outright.

The active engagement of the community within the local area and their pride in the development is testament to the positive social impact of the project..

The project has also prioritised placemaking, providing great physical improvements to the neighbourhood.Such a success would pave the way for P-DfMA and other MMC methodologies to be rolled out across other social infrastructure, including schools, social housing and more.

We envision that there is likely to be about a ten-year window of opportunity here, and the industry needs to make a start.It also seems likely that within the grand scheme of things on the horizon, the digital work will take longer than the physical aspects, and we should be conscious of that.. Miranda Sharp reminds us that digitising planning and the wider built environment won’t be easy to do.

Some of the necessary work will be boring, and it will be a grind to make the data interoperable and set the transaction mechanisms.Aligning standards, cleaning up data and creating transformation will all take a long time.