We were really pleased to see our recently completed Holy Trinity Primary School in Dalston, a two-form entry primary school cross-subsidised by 101 new build apartments, featured in Building Magazine last week.
The scheme is an innovative solution to a constrained site in a dense London borough, tackling the need for school places as well as for increased housing. A 7-storey luxury residential development is vertically stacked above the two-storey primary school, with a double-height open-air play deck separating the school and the apartments, while maximising the provision of outdoor space.
“An assertively urban response to a complex urban problem”
We believe that the success of the project in delivering high quality homes and additional school places without one compromising the other and without the need for public funding, represents a repeatable model that can be implemented on many similar small urban sites.
“Compelling precedents for how schools can exploit London’s housing boom to embed themselves into the limited space offered by the capital’s dense inner city context”
