The three-storey building is intended to be a contemporary, yet sensitive, intervention into the high street, using a refined palette of buff masonry and glazed brick to pick up the rhythm and tones of the surrounding shopfronts while introducing a confident benchmark for the town.
Inset balconies and recessed openings articulate the facade without disrupting the established streetscape. The development improves the outlook to and from the site, repairing what had previously been a degraded stretch of the High Street.
The ground-floor co-working hub known as The Meeting Pointadds to the vibrancy of the High Street with a flexible layout designed to accommodate a range of users. It is dual aspect providing activation to the High Street on the south side while overlooking a new, tranquil garden to the north.
The garden is shared between commercial and residential tenants, providing landscaped social space to encourage connections and community amongst the range of users whilst supporting local biodiversity.
Quercus Housing, Sevenoaks District Council's affordable housing company, acquired all 17 homes for key worker households and refugee families displaced by the war in Ukraine.
The scheme has set a new baseline expectation for new development in Swanley whilst creating the conditions for a mixed community to form and to flourish.
