The school’s existing dining facilities were not large enough to accommodate all students and the narrow serving area limited the flow of pupils being served during the lunch period. We proposed converting a courtyard and a cloakroom area into a new dining room and multipurpose space with a new secondary entrance for extended hours and extracurricular activities. This created a greater demand for ...

In a society that is living longer with an increasing demand for care facilities, the Care Village at Weymouth is designed to provide the independent living with the reassurance of a safe secure environment where access to a flexible tailored care and support network is available as required. Our proposals for the site at Newton’s Cove would provide an innovative and sustainable community ...

Submitted at competition the brief was to design a replacement for the landmark Edwardian tearooms in the Belper’s River Gardens. The existing building had fallen into disrepair and had been condemned. Industrialist George Herbert Strutt commissioned the original Swiss-style tea rooms. It was felt the new design should reflect elements of this building, while providing a new sustainable and ...

This project was a feasibility study into the development of the entrance space to form an atrium and a bridge link for the main hospital building to the Treatment Centre at high level which would offer a discrete patient journey to the main ward areas. Within the atrium a reception with a meet and greet lounge, patient transport, toilets and baby change facilities, volunteer’s area, shops and ...

In Brief Client: Private Developer Location: Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent Project Value: £175,000 Completion Date: March 2015 Our client acquired the former car parking site in the centre of Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent in August 2013 to develop new town centre housing. The brief was to maximise the potential of the town centre site to develop much needed quality modern rental accommodation within the ...

A development of thirteen attractive new bungalows on a town centre site in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire is now under construction and the project is progressing as planned. Croft Architecture has transformed the 0.66 hectare site of the former Priory Day Care Centre at Lymewood Grove into an impressive small community of single storey homes designed principally for residents over 55 and ...

We are pleased to bring news that planning approval has been granted for a town centre site development of new homes in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire. Croft Architecture has transformed the redundant town centre site consisting of disused workshops, offices and storage buildings into an impressive courtyard community of ten new residential dwellings. The site is conveniently located within a ...

Our clients were fortunate to inherit their redundant large old farmhouse house and plot from relatives. The site is extremely large covering acres of farmhouse surrounding the old 1930’s farmhouse. On first impressions you would assume that it would be an uncontested, perfect spot to extend the existing home or even demolish and rebuild. Unfortunately, not, the family were met with strong ...

This project involved a 1930’s property with a poor quality extension that part covered one of the windows, and a further addition that formed the existing kitchen. We proposed to remove the external wall between the kitchen and dining area at the corner of the existing property, including the bottom of the chimney stack, thus forming the new kitchen diner space to suit the modern living ...