Buryfield
Bury, Huntingdonshire
Location: Bury, Cambridgeshire
Client: NFC Homes & Stonewater HA
Use: 54 Homes
The site is located on the southern end of the historic village of Bury and Ramsey, extending the settlement on former farmland, but within the obvious curtilage of the village. The context is predominantly a collection of low-rise, detached and semi-detached houses on estate-like masterplans. The proposal continues this scale but with an emphasis on creating a more ordered masterplan for a new community with a much more cohesive relationship with the surrounding landscape. Through large areas of wild planting, orchards and an extensive Sustainable Urban Drainage System, the scheme seeks to blur the threshold between the rural setting and village edge.
New homes vary from 1 to 4 bedrooms, either detached or semi-detached, and all with their own generous, private garden. 50% of the scheme are affordable homes mixed across the scheme. The design approach for the houses balances a contemporary style within a rural context, being sensitive to their setting. Three defined character types, with varying materiality and brickwork patterning ensure all plots feel individual but part of coherent group. All homes benefit from outward looking views to the surrounding landscape.
