Crest Nicholson

• 30 hectare, 1450 homes on brownfield site – previously
• 40,000 sq. ft. retail and restaurant/bar
• Restored/converted Grade II Listed Ingress Abbey and landscape structures
• CABE/OPDM Gold Award, also RTPI and Kent Design Awards
• Series of distinct character areas
• Site specific design enabled densification and new setting for Abbey
• Layout design makes best use of existing historic structures and topography
• New Thames footpath provided along waterfront linking with Greenhithe village
• Masterplan incorporates ‘Fastrack’ bus route with partially dedicated roads
• Cycle and pedestrian routes forge links with surrounding areas
• Architecture influenced by Kent vernacular in early phases
• Later waterfront phases use more contemporary architectural language

Ingress Park Waterfront and Pier – Crest Nicholson

• 400 mixed-tenure apartments and 40,000 sq.ft retail, leisure and community facilities (doctors/pharmacy)
• Dense development provides critical mass to support construction of Local Centre to serve Ingress Park
• Waterfront and Pier take on contemporary character whilst retaining some of materials used on earlier phases
• Continuity with earlier phases provided by landscape design and materials including Pier Boardwalk
• Layout designed to allow sunlight and views between buildings, linking series of riverside spaces to central spaces
• Designed to provide animated ground and roofscapes
• Gradual increase in scale from interfaces with earlier phases to waterfront, culminating with 15 storey corner Pier building
• Balconies wrapped/protected by design of building on waterfront, winter gardens also provided
• A spectacular final flourish to complete Ingress Park

Work carried out on new-build design by Warren Howling while Associate Director at GSA.