33-37 London Road, Marks Tey, Essex, CO3 9AJ
32 residential units
Construction costs: £11 millsion
In 2008 Fourthspace attained planning permission on behalf of Magri Group to develop a disused elongated industrial brownfield site in the village of Marks Tey in Essex into a landscaped housing scheme featuring a mix of individual houses and flats.
Working with a Colchester Council development brief and interested parties with adjoining land, much of the design work required a considered master planning strategy that could address issues of placemaking, amenity and well-being for future residents and the village itself.
With full support of Colchester Council’s urban design officer, Fourthspace developed a unique design approach. Starting from the found Essex vernacular and the demanding Essex Design Code, Fourthspace abstracted the formal and literal principles to invent a new contemporary play on the local vernacular.
There are 20 flats adjacent to the road and 12 large family houses within the site with large private gardens. The development is to be of timber frame construction and with considerable renewable energy sources.
