Aylesbury Estate

Location: Southwark, London
Client: Notting Hill Housing Trust
Date: 2013 - Ongoing
Value: N/A
Awards: Housing Design Awards - Shortlist 2016 New London Awards - Finalist 2015

Mæ are creating an extra-care facility with 121 residential flats intended for local elderly people, and a community centre on the Aylesbury Estate in Southwark. The Aylesbury Estate regeneration, is one of the largest estate regeneration schemes in Europe, which will deliver 4,200 new homes.

The building compliments the wider masterplan for the area, and sits between Westmoreland Square and a new urban park. The architecture builds on the patterns and articulation of the housing in the neighbouring Liverpool Grove conservation area.

We have designed the extra-care building as a 21st century alms-house planned around ideas of progressive privacy. From the building entrance, lounge and garden where residents can socialise in large groups, to generous landings where neighbours can meet or generous apartments where residents can retreat for privacy.

Close attention has been paid to designing accommodation to meet HAPPI principles, Lifetime Homes Standards and Stirling guidance and cater for different care needs such as dementia or residents with impairments whilst avoiding an institutional feel.

John Morden Centre Project Update

Construction is well under way at the John Morden Centre in Blackheath with the project on course for completion in the summer of 2020.

The project uses sustainable and modern methods of construction including cross-laminated timber throughout, and creates a day care centre for residents of Morden College. It brings together facilities currently spread across the college site into an innovative, characterful new building designed to tackle social isolation among older residents by providing spaces to interact.
October 2019 View Project
Aylesbury Estate Case Study in HousingLIN Project Update

Mæ's extra care housing scheme for Stage 1 of the Aylesbury Estate regeneration in Walworth is the focus of a Housing LIN case study commissioned by Notting Hill Housing Trust, investigating the challenging inter-generational mix of housing on the estate.
July 2016
NLA Awards shortlisting for Aylesbury Estate and Somerleyton Road Project Update

The Aylesbury Estate has been shortlisted in the housing category at the 2015 New London Awards. The Somerleyton Road redevelopment in Brixton is shortlisted for a masterplanning award through our collaborators Metropolitan Works, our extra-care housing forms a pivotal part of the scheme.
July 2015 View Project
Aylesbury Estate gains planning approval Project Update

The 830-home first phase of the Aylesbury Estate redevelopment has received planning permission. A collaboration with HTA and Hawkins\Brown for Notting Hill Housing Trust, Mæ's scheme includes extra-care housing and a community centre. Phases 2- 4, which includes a further 2745 homes, offices, shops, health centres and publics parks, also received outline planning.
April 2015 View Project
Aylesbury Estate win Project Update

Mæ are delighted to be part of the team chosen by Southwark Council to redevelop the 28 hectare Aylesbury Estate in Walworth, South East London. Working with HTA and Hawkins\Brown we are part of a Notting Hill Housing Trust-led bid for the coveted job to replace the Hans Peter Trenton-designed estate with 4,200 new homes.
February 2014 View Project