Tuesday 24 August 2010

CASE STUDY: LOUDOUN






The Loudoun Square Project is currently taking place in Bute Town, in Cardiff Bay. The process had been going on for three years and prior to showing the initial designs, CCHA presented facilitated a series of consultation 'workshops' with the local community and key organisations leading to a master plan of the site. The project has a budget of £12 million, and construction is currently underway, with the site hopefully being completed in 2012. The site will consist of various colourful signposts to ensure that all places are easily located, and sustainability is evident with harvesting of rainwater, and Biomassed fueled heating. The site is going to achieve a BREEAM "excellent". (BRE Environmental Assessment Method), and the houses are designed to achieve Code for Sustainable Homes- 'Level 4'. Loudon will be a health centre for all those that need it, and will be a reconstruction of the current Health Centre in Bute Town at the moment. On the first two floors there will be doctor consultant rooms, and on the third floor there will be offices, with the final floor having flats for residents. There are a further three construction phases at hand, and in the square there will be shops, a new health centre, affordable homes, and community facilities.