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An edge of town development which exploits a sloping site to give spectacular views of the sea and the harbour of St Ives.

It is unusual for houses costing half a million pounds to face socially rented homes across a twenty metre wide street. Trinity Watch is in an area where the demand for second homes is high and provides eleven houses for sale alongside two houses and two apartments for social rent.

Fifteen different house plans have been used in this tightly grained scheme which is inspired by the urban form of the historic town centre of St Ives. The buildings are carefully detailed with high quality materials which reference the local vernacular while avoiding pastiche.

Trinity Watch won a Building for Life Award in 2009.

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Building for Life Awards 2009

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A housing scheme next to Portsmouth’s historic dockyard, surrounded by buildings including the Mary Rose and Victory museums.
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An example of an imaginative high density, mixed tenure, mixed use urban redevelopment of a former brownfield site, which also creates an excellent new public amenity.
Cross Street South, Wolverhampton

An ambitious design providing affordable houses and apartments in an area that has suffered from poor design and neglect.
Granville New Homes, Brent, London

An innovative new scheme which responds to its conservation area context and delivers attractive new homes and high quality living spaces.
Lime Tree Square, Street, Somerset

The first phase of a larger development, ICON, which comprises housing from apartment blocks to mews and terraced housing.
Norfolk Park Green Homes, Sheffield

Fondly known locally as ‘Ballamory’ after the BBC children’s television programme, this housing scheme has raised people’s aspirations for their part of the city.