Heron Place, Rawtenstall

Key Features

The scheme occupies a contaminated brown field site adjacent to the Limy Water course and is considered a high flood risk area by the environment agency. To prevent flooding of the apartments we developed an innovative solution by raising  the ground floor level 1m from exterior ground level with a void space below the structure to allow any flood water to pass beneath the apartments. This avoided the need for flood defense barriers yet still provided level access for the elderly residents by sympathetic designing of the landscaping.

With  the apartments being in close proximity to the Roman Catholic Church of St James the Less this  meant that material choices and design had to be sympathetic to the Grade II listed building.