Corner apartment block on Carnarvon Road, brick and dark-tile cladding with a laser-cut decorative panel at the oriel bay, blue sky above

100% affordable housing

Carnarvon RoadRainscreen claddingSouthend-on-Sea · Essex

Dmitro Facades delivered a rainscreen-cladding package on the award-winning Phase 1 development at Carnarvon Road, 56 affordable homes on the former South East Essex College site.

01 · The completed corner block, brick and dark vertical-tile elevations above the pavement.

At a glance

Package: Rainscreen cladding
Location: Southend-on-Sea · Essex
Housing client: Estuary Housing Association
Main contractor: Hollybrook
Award: Winner, Housing Excellence Awards 2019

Dmitro Facades delivered a rainscreen-cladding package for main contractor Hollybrook on the award-winning Phase 1 development at Carnarvon Road, 56 affordable homes completed for Estuary Housing Association on the former South East Essex College site in Southend-on-Sea.

Part of: Cladding and façade packages across the South East

Street-level view of the corner apartment block on Carnarvon Road, brick and dark-tile elevations with pedestrians on the pavement

The corner block, turning from Carnarvon Road towards the Civic Centre.

Front elevation of an apartment block on Carnarvon Road with a recessed entrance porch between two brick and dark-tile gables

A front entrance, set at domestic scale to match the houses opposite.

Award-winning development

A 100% affordable phase, recognised across Essex.

Carnarvon Road’s completed 56-home phase won the Housing Schemes over 50 homes category at the inaugural EDG and SEHG Housing Excellence Awards 2019. Judges described an impressive, high-quality development with strong placemaking and public realm, delivered as 100% affordable housing on a former brownfield site.

The wider consent, planning reference 15/00803/BC4M, allows for 158 apartments in two phases on the former South East Essex College site. The completed phase delivered 56 two-bedroom homes in six linked blocks, 40 shared-ownership and 16 affordable-rent, each with its own patio, balcony or terrace, an allocated parking space and secure cycle storage. ATP Group is identified as the architect for the delivered project, with Proctor and Matthews Architects also part of the design development.

The scheme’s brick and blue-brick palette, timber detailing and profiled aluminium roof elements step the blocks down to a domestic scale on Carnarvon Road, matching the terraced housing opposite, before rising towards Southend’s Civic Centre and police headquarters to the south. Photovoltaic panels were designed to meet more than 10% of the development’s energy demand, alongside sustainable drainage and landscaped amenity space.

Planning reference15/00803/BC4M
Consented homes158 across two phases
AwardHousing Schemes over 50 homes, 2019

The courtyard and balconies

Beyond the elevations, the scheme's shared courtyard and balconies complete the finished development. The 42 factory-assembled Cassette balconies, supplied and installed by Sapphire Balconies as a separate specialist package, combine gold-finished steel balustrades with laser-cut panels referencing Southend's shellfish industry; they are shown here as context for the completed elevations, not as Dmitro's own scope.

Courtyard elevation at Carnarvon Road with balconies, parked cars and a paved walkway — The shared courtyard, balconies stacked above brick and dark-tile elevations.

Wide view of the landscaped courtyard at Carnarvon Road, balconies along a curved corner block above flower beds — A wider courtyard view, landscaped beds and balconies along the curved corner block.

Close view of stacked gold-finished Cassette balconies above a ground-floor entrance door at Carnarvon Road — A closer view of the Cassette balconies and an entrance door below.

Carnarvon Road, clad by Dmitro.

Southend-on-Sea, Essex

Delivery period: November 2017 – March 2018
Tenure: 40 shared-ownership · 16 affordable-rent
Architect: ATP Group
Balcony specialist: Sapphire Balconies

Part of: Cladding and façade packages across the South East