We bring creative thinking to housing provision. Covering the basics with no fuss, yet go further to help co-create a solution that will meet new UK Planning Policy and tackle Agent of Change where it impacts existing businesses.
Our team delivers quality residential and RRP housing development by taking a holistic view, looking at issues such as:
- Are you near existing noise-making businesses that might claim 'Agent of Change'?
- What might be the mitigation burden of that?
- How the acoustic separation standards internally between dwellings, and also commercial in mixed-use, might be achieved economically with light structures?
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- Ensuring sustainability is integral to the project and an option for you to take through alternatives that we will flag through our advice on the use of eco-materials and low-energy solutions.
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- How ventilation will work in a noisy environment to make passive ventilation workable
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- How to create protected amenity areas to provide quality environments
- How to use sound to create valued soundscapes within the development that will provide community focus and identity
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We steer clients through complex planning and legislation processes with an eye on using sound to create better places to live, learn and be long into the future.
Case Study: Whitely House and Care Hub, Surrey
Development of a pioneering example of a planned retirement village, including 44 new 1 and 2-bed apartments as a result of the refurbishment of a grade II building. This includes a care hub and atrium to support a community gathering point and will be called Whiteley Village. Sustainable Acoustics is working to deliver good sound insulation and a high-quality environment in which people can live, be cared for and socialise
