Clarendon Road South Masterplan

Sitting between the railway sidings for the east-coast main-line and the hubbub of Turnpike Lane, ‘Clarendon Road South’ is a key 2.2ha site within Haringey Council’s Wood Green Area Action Plan (AAP). The site is made up of a mix of poorly-defined community, employment and residential uses and the local authority identified it to be used more intensively and with the inclusion of a new primary school.

We were appointed with Haverstock Associates to develop a mixed use, employment, education, community and residential masterplan for Clarendon Road South. Our proposal addresses the borough’s forecasted shortage of primary school places as well as the creation of 80 new homes, improved light industrial employment space and community uses.

Following analysis of the existing business’s operational requirements, boundary issues and ownership conditions, we established a strategic manifesto for the masterplan that established a social and economic vision for the site. The proposed development created a new school site in the centre of the AAP with its own ‘school street’ around which ‘day and night’ community uses and ‘residential front doors’ maintained and active, vibrant, safe and sustainable addition to the borough.

The new employment and community uses were located at ground level to maximise accessibility, active street frontages and to enhance the new, intensively-planted and landscaped public realm. New homes were proposed from the second floor upwards in a series of stepped building forms that responded to strategic street views and sightlines and the development sites relationship with the Heartlands development to the north.

Following a rigorous analysis of the existing business’s requirements, boundary issues and ownership conditions, we established a manifesto for the masterplan that established a vision for the site. The masterplan created a new school site in the centre of the AAP with its own ‘school street’ around which community uses and residential front doors radiated to create a vibrant, safe and sustainable addition to the borough.

The new employment and community uses were located at ground floor to maximise accessibility, active street frontages and to enhance the new, intensively-planted and landscaped public realm. The new homes were created from the second floor upwards in a series of stepped forms that responded to street views, sight lines and the sites relationship with the forthcoming Heartlands development to the north.