We were appointed to prepare a master plan as part of the Portsmouth City Centre Development Strategy that is part of the evidence base which supports the proposed approach to the regeneration of Portsmouth City Centre in the draft Local Plan Policy S1, now out for consultation (https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/services/development-and-planning/planning-policy/the-local-plan/ ). The master plan is a high-level examination of the future potential of the city centre, based on current and rising trends in commerce, transport, climate and housing, to name just a few. It is based around more people living in the city centre, a greener & healthier environment, a changing shopping offer, a shift from building roads to creating streets, reconnecting the city centre with the its hinterland, a new business location, a greater sense of arrival, and expressing Portsmouth’s personality in the built environment. The area measures 60 hectares and…

We were appointed in 2020 to master plan a new urban extension to Weymouth for Lovell and ABRI. Part of a larger site which will include employment space and a new community school, our commission seeks to establish a new neighbourhood for the town with strong links with existing adjacent communities. Ultimately, 500 households will live here, most in houses on traditional streets with their own private gardens. A primary aim of the master plan will be to sit comfortably within the natural landscape bowl, with significant green space providing space for play and biodiversity. Street architecture will reference local context in a contemporary manner with the majority of dwellings in render or brick, coloured to offer a muted impression overall in this edge of countryside setting. The public realm will encourage walking and cycling to and from new and…

Meridien Modena has had its base in Lyndhurst since 1988 and has a dedicated team of 30 people, which includes seven Factory Trained Technicians as well as three apprentices from the North Europe Apprentice Programme. The new site at Hounsdown gained planning approval in August 2016 and will provide a new after sales service facility, which will allow the business to grow and continue to offer their clients the best possible experience in luxury car ownership. (more…)

Fareham College’s Civil Engineering Training Centre (CETC) is the home of the pioneering Civil Engineering and Groundworks Apprenticeship, estimated to deliver over 1,600 groundwork and civil engineering apprenticeships over the next five years alone. (more…)

R Owton (Wholesale Butchers) Ltd appointed us to make a detailed application for a new butchery on their land at Chalcroft Farm, Horton Heath. The Owton family have been farming on Chalcroft Farm for over 600 years with the earliest known records dating back to 1257. Founded in 1976 at Chalcroft Farm, Owton’s Traditional Family Butchers (more…)

https://www.onegreatwin.com/ We were commissioned in early 2020 to create a new Vision for the City of Winchester. Our team comprised Feria Urbanism, Storrie and momo:zo and our first task was to redesign our consultation programme for one almost exclusively based online. Having talked to a wide cross-section of Winchester people the key finding was that most were concerned with How changes or initiatives or developments were going to come about rather than What they were going to be. The (more…)

Sea View Place, and the converted office building adjacent, is an example of the increasing move towards city centre living in Southampton. In the past 5+ years more people have seen the benefits and attractiveness of living close to the city’s key facilities including those offering jobs, transport or leisure. This in part relates to recent efforts to improve and enhance the city centre environment for all who use it. (more…)

Our second scheme with Dandara this brownfield site was home to Drayton Dairy but has been vacant for a number of years. The scheme is medium density and mainly comprises two storey houses with a single three storey apartment building overlooking the site entrance.

Boyle+Summers were appointed by Skyborne Airline Academy to develop designs for the development of their new training and accommodation facility at Gloucestershire Airport. Our involvement required developing a strategic masterplan for the south east business campus at the airport to illustrate how new business could be located at the airport in a manner which reflected the Joint Core Strategy for the area. The project developed into detailed design proposals for the new training building and student accommodation building. (more…)

Bournemouth is part of a large conurbation which includes Poole and Christchurch. All three authorities will be combined in 2019. Bournemouth is the largest town, with the most successful retail, cultural and commercial centre, and is centrally placed within the conurbation. The whole conurbation, is increasingly being recognised as a major urban area. If the conurbation is a city-in-waiting (more…)

Baker Estates commissioned us to design a detailed master plan for 171 dwellings on a large site on the north-western fringe of Callington, a Cornish town 15 miles west of Plymouth. Set on a tumbling, west-facing valley side, the objective was to positively address the green space set aside for recreation and ecological mitigation, plug seamlessly in to adjoining neighbourhoods, and (more…)

Pembers Hill is a development of 244 new homes, public open space and associated infrastructure on land on Mortimers Lane in Fair Oak. Boyle+Summers were appointed by Drew Smith Limited in 2016 to assist with the progress of an Outline planning application on the site. (more…)

The Business Hangars development is part of the Solent Enterprise Zone at Lee-on-the Solent in Hampshire. The hangars are located overlooking the Historic Daedalus Airfield and consist of a terrace of six aircraft hangars with associated car parking and landscaping, for business and light industrial use. The development gained planning approval in October 2016 and is currently on site. The hangars form part of the overall vision for (more…)

Europa House, the 12 storey former European HQ of Pall, was opened in Summer 2017 and now contains over 240 bedrooms for University of Portsmouth students. Working for clients Stuart Properties we designed extensive internal and external refurbishments that added a contemporary appeal to an existing building with a distinctive aesthetic. The building includes top of the range studio and 2 bedroom (more…)

We were asked by Linden Homes (South) to help them obtain reserved matters approval for a new Employment Park with a care home and flexible business units at Crow Arch Lane, Ringwood. The scheme is the third and final phase of development in the delivery of the outline approval for a mixed-use development comprising 175 new homes, green spaces including Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace (SANG), allotments and (more…)

Who is going to design New South Hampshire? What is it going to look and feel like? How much better could it be if it were tackled as one strategic project? The area between the New Forest and (more…)

We have been working for some time with Ankers and Rawlings Developments Ltd on proposals to expand and evolve this large site close to Ringwood and the A31. Outline Permission was granted in 2016 for various employment uses with a total floor space of 33,400sqm (360,000sqft). This covers Office, Research & Development, Light Industrial, General Industrial, and Storage & Distribution uses (B1a, B1b, B1c, B2, & B8) and a small element of A1, A3, A5, D1, & D2 space. Woolsbridge Industrial Estate is situated between Three Legged Cross and Ashley Heath around 2 miles from the A31. At just over 15 hectares it is one of the largest industrial estates in Dorset.