For our studio, backland development has become more than just a sector. Accounting for around a third of our portfolio, we have become passionate about developing imaginative designs that unlock underutilised sites to provide much needed homes for the future. What was once unfamiliar territory has evolved into a thriving area of expertise, offering a wealth of opportunities that now explore with our clients, local authorities, and the communities we serve.

These complex sites present an opportunity to embrace challenging site constraints such as overshadowing, overlooking, tight offset distances, TPOs and RPAs, to name a few. Wrestling with these parameters results in designs which are intensely site specific and design-led. The team love working on these projects as they invariably require to exciting and innovative architectural thinking.