South Gate, Totnes
Type: New Housing Development Completion: 2009 Client: South Hams District Council and Midas Homes Awards:2010 - DBC: Award for Quality and Sustainability
2010 - DBC: Best Large Housing Development
2009 - Arnold Sayer Award for Group Housing 2009 - Housing Design Awards: Overall
Winner
2009 - DBC: Best Large Housing Development - Winner
2006 - Housing Design Awards: Project Winner
2006 - Housing Design Awards: Featured in Exhibition of Excellence
The South Gate development has been recognised nationally as an exemplar project demonstrating the successful collaboration between the Local Authority, community group and private developer. After winning the prestigious National Design Awards the judges commented that “the range of private outdoor spaces, shared public spaces and good sized dwellings with sections designed to maximise views suggests the scheme will deal easily with the higher density needed to get the the extra homes demanded … It is the very kind of housing project that Totnes requires – maintaining the districts character and helping to provide much needed quality affordable housing … It means attractive places with a mixture of size and tenure, high environmental standards and green spaces too.”