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Prior Approval expertise

Prior Approval expertise

Snug Architects have built up a wealth of experience in the design and delivery of Prior Approval schemes. The conversion of offices to residential use under permitted development rights is delivering much needed new housing and quickly. It is also r...

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Form Follows Force Part 2

Form Follows Force Part 2

Here are the second batch of images on our new housing and apartment typologies. These images explore how a large scale settlement edge development can be sympathetically integrated into its setting, creating a humane settlement edge where people wil...

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Form Follows Force!

Form Follows Force!

At Snug we endeavour to create humane homes where people 'love where they live'. Our architecture seeks always to respond positively to the forces at work upon it. These forces are derived from the characteristics of the site, the ergonomics of inhab...

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Planning won for Winchester's largest social housing scheme

Planning won for Winchester's largest social housing scheme

Snug have just won planning permission for Winchester City Council’s largest affordable housing scheme. The project consists of 76 new affordable homes at The Valley in Stanmore and forms part the council’s ambitious New Homes Delivery programme. The...

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Planning secured for retirement housing in the New Forest National Park

Planning secured for retirement housing in the New Forest National Park

We are delighted to have secured planning permission for specialist property developer, PegasusLife's first scheme in The New Forest. Situated in The Rise Conservation Area in Brockenhurst, within the New Forest National Park, the development will co...

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The Valley, Stanmore submitted for planning

The Valley, Stanmore submitted for planning

We are pleased to have submitted a full planning application for 76 new affordable houses at the Valley, Stanmore on behalf of Winchester City Council's New Homes Delivery. This will be their largest scheme to date. The scheme provides a mixture of 2...

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The Limes

The Limes

It was lovely day at The Limes today so I thought, as I was passing, I would pop in and catch a quick photo. It looked great, nestled amongst the Lime trees on a lovely spring day....

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A housing odyssey

A housing odyssey

This week we went on an epic urban design odyssey with @BargateHomes in search of great new housing schemes. Our 12 hours in a landrover took us first to Newhall in Harlow before heading up to Accordia, @GreatKneighton and Trumpington Meadows in Camb...

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11 Queensway goes to planning

11 Queensway goes to planning

Our scheme for the erection of a six storey building at 11 Queenways has been submitted to planning and will provide the City of Southampton with 59 new apartments. The proposal comprises the conversion of the existing building and the addition of up...

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Consultation underway at The Valley, Winchester

Consultation underway at The Valley, Winchester

Yesterday we held our consultation event with the Winchester City Council New Homes Team for 95+ social housing units at The Valley in Stanmore, Winchester. This is an exciting development of houses and flats that develops new typologies within the S...

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