Preston Wheatfields Sustainable Housing Development
Wheatfields is a low cost, high quality, sustainable housing development. Through community consultation and community involvement, the development will generate skills, confidence and pride within the community - Inspiring and educating all that live in and around these beautiful straw bale homes.
The Wheatfields development relates to its immediate surroundings by maintaining existing desire lines across the site. Maintaining the existing pedestrian network, will create a sensitive relationship with the existing St Ignatius conservation area and form a new open street façade towards St Pauls Rd. The architectural language already existing in St Ignatius Square is continued along Meadow Street. By maintaining building heights, front gardens and trees, the design re-establishes the street façade with a contemporary take on the vernacular terraced houses of the conservation area.
