Shoebury Garrison Masterplan, Essex

This 96 Hectare historic garrison was formerly the British School of Gunnery and a major training and experimental base for the army from the 1850’s to the 1990’s. It occupies a strategic site on the northern tip of the Thames Estuary, includes a scheduled ancient monument, 40 listed buildings and an SSSI. The site was acquired from Defence Estate by Gladedale Homes in Spring 2000.

Allen Tod have prepared a masterplan delivering housing, employment, leisure, community uses, hotel, school and a new 35 Hectare park. Supporting work includes a Design Report, a comprehensive audit, of the historic, cultural and landscape assets of the site, and impact assessments.

The masterplan resolves access, drainage, flood defence, archeological and historic building issues to create a place that is sustainable and does justice to this unique location.

Shoebury Garrison, Horseshoe Barracks

The Horseshoe Barracks is a unique arrangement of barrack blocks around a large recreation and parade ground. It formed the main residential area for other ranks in the Shoebury Garrison and British School of Gunnery, and is one of its key landscape spaces.

Allen Tod's proposals for refurbished and new housing, with the original NAAFI retained as a club for residents, have received planning and listed building approval and are now proceeding on site. The scale of the original parade ground has been reinstated and landscape and planting restored, whilst new housing is inserted in the spaces behind the refurbished barrack blocks creating a series of courtyards. The proposals preserve and enhance the best of the existing Listed Buildings and deliver 120 new dwellings to bring life back to this unique historic space.

No1 Maltings, Mistley, Essex

No 1 Maltings is a unique pioneering maltings building from the 19th century that dominates the village of Mistley and overlooks the Stour Estuary. The buildings are listed Grade 2.

Allen Tod were appointed by Essex County Council and the building's then owners,Trent Wharfage Limited, to carry out a feasibility study for the phased re-development of the buildings with a mix of uses, providing employment and regeneration opportunities for the area.

Our design approach respects the robust qualities of the existing maltings buildings and complements these with a series of
contemporary elements that allow the building's qualities and its dramatic setting to be appreciated to the full by those who use it.

The first major phase of the redevelopment for the buildings's current owners, Gladedale Homes is now on site , providing housing, workspace and leisure facilities.

Allen Tod have also developed a masterplan for the regeneration of the quayside of Mistley with Trent Wharfage and Gladedale Homes. The aim is to rationalise the traditional quayside operations and to provide new housing and workspace opportunities in an appropriate scale for the village.

32 The Calls, Leeds

Allen Tod Architects' Leeds studio is located in one of our own schemes, on the top floor of a Grade II listed, 7 storey riverside warehouse in the heart of Leeds that has been instrumental in regenerating this area of the city.

The building now contains a very successful pub wth a terrace overlooking the river Aire, 4 floors of apartments, and a top floor of open plan offices.

The project received an RICS Urban Renewal award in 1995.