Luzborough
The Ashfield Partnership is now formed by C G Fry and Son, Morrish Builders, Wyatt Homes and the Ashfield Estate. These three housebuilders are locally based, family owned, well respected craftsmen house builders with the necessary experience and wisdom to help guide the Estate to achieve plans with real integrity.
Romsey, Hampshire CLIENT: The Ashfield Estate, Morrish Builders, Wyatt Homes SCHEME: 56 homes SITE: 2.4 ha
DATE: Completed in 2019
The heart of the approach is to make places that make sense, delivering settlements to live and to work which suit the lives people might wish to live, as sustainably as possible.
MASTERPLAN: New Masterplanning EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT: ADAM Architecture
In following both tradition and contemporary practice, the Ashfield Partnership is aiming for schemes which prove to be successful by being popular. Much effort has been made to plan new communities which are not dependent on motor cars although the estate recognises that the advent of battery powered vehicles may permit a change of emphasis.
The Ashfield Estate faced a difficult decision at the beginning of the 21st century. Volume house builders, land dealers, and planning consultants were making offers to secure and promote parcels of its land around Romsey. To accept would have meant surrendering control. Instead, it wanted to facilitate a development in which it could take pride. So, it worked with local people to develop a design for the Luzborough site, with two other sites, Hoe Lane and Whitenap, in prospect. The Estate took guidance not only from engineers and ecologists, planners and architects, traffic consultants and landscape architects, but also from the people who would build the place. While housebuilders take many forms, they know best what will work and what will sell. The Estate undertook a thorough selection process to find housebuilders with the enthusiasm to work hard together to make these schemes possible yet capture the spirit, the heart and the soul of the landowner’s vision. 50
The Luzborough site is now under construction, being built out by Morrish Builders and Wyatt Homes, and will be complete by the end of 2019. It will be a testing ground to show how traditional building techniques can be successfully adapted in the future. This page, Townhouse on the junction of North Road and Pottenger Road, Luzborough, Romsey. All the brickwork is Flemish bond which creates a more interesting character without reliance upon elaborate architectural detail. Opposite, A line of cottages and village houses along Pottenger Road, Luzborough, Romsey. Restrained architecture, attention to detail, well- proportioned components and good quality natural materials combine to create a strong sense of local character which resonates with the historic core of the town.
Next spread left clockwise from top left, New and old (the pub was existing) sit comfortably beside each other. A line of open fronted oak framed garages in a parking court. Painted metal Regency latticework porch on a prominent townhouse. Line of tenure-blind affordable houses designed as a range of converted barns, and clad using oak from the estate. Next spread right, Prominent painted render townhouse on the corner of North Road at the entrance to Luzborough, Romsey 51
