Accessible Play Area, Roemill Road, Limavady

This project included the design, project management and delivery of a fully accessible play area, including a new changing places facility to be installed within an existing adjacent pavilion building.

The proposals revitalised an under used site comprising of two former tennis courts along with a small outdated play facility. The design focused highly on how the users of the site would engage and interact within the park.

Accessible gradients, ramped accesses, braille on signage, inclusive seating to play equipment, inclusive picnic tables, autism friendly colour schemes all help to bring children together in play. Tree and shrub planting has been used to integrate it with the natural environment, bring structure to the layout and provide user friendly play zones. Selective sensory planting creates a pleasant environment providing a range of textures and smells. A sensory trail from the upper to the lower sections includes a bespoke willow tunnel archway offering a light and shade sensory experience to partially sighted users. A ‘Cozy Cocoon’ was included in order to provide a safe refuge for the sensitive needs of certain users, such as those with autism.

Other specific play equipment includes a wheelchair swing, inclusive roundabout, a dual axis simulator for accessible use, a giant revolving disc, team swing and a large scale fully accessible multi-play unit with slide, ramped access, sensory panels and much more.  

The enthusiastic multidisciplinary team allows our scope of services to range from private dwellings through to industrial business parks. An open plan office layout boosts creativity whilst providing an integrated design approach to ensure that the client receives the best possible outcome and service. With Chartered Architects and Chartered Architectural Technologists our architectural services include but are not limited to:

Residential development planning
Statutory approvals
Procurement
Construction management
Historic buildings consent
Site selection & appraisal
Feasibility studies
Major & cyclical works programmes
Contract management
Design & build delivery
Social housing
New build
Major & Cyclical works
External work
Condition surveys

The Practice has extensive experience in a wide range of scenarios providing not only an aesthetic appearance but also achieving any necessary BREEAM credits or similar sustainability criteria. The team competently provides services for:

Bespoke private gardens
Public town paths & parks
Historic & costal landscaping
Golf courses, sports facilities & children’s play areas
Landscape & visual impact assessment
Expert witness for planning appeals/public enquiries
University campuses
Parking & access arrangements
Caravan & holiday parks, marinas
Planting schedules, management & maintenance plans
Minerals, landfill and restoration.

The Practice has extensive expertise and exceptional experience in all areas of planning practice including:

Planning Appraisals & Site Feasibility
Planning Applications
Enforcement, provision of advice on regularising unauthorised development
Planning Appeals, Public Inquires and Area Plan. Preparation of written evidence and oral presentation at Appeals and Inquiries
Expert witness and licensing for legal hearings, appeals and public inquiries
Environmental impact assessment
Retail impact assessments
Renewable energy proposals including wind turbines, photovoltaics, etc
Brown field redevelopment & consideration of land contamination
Urban realm and regeneration
Strategic planning and master planning – for the co-ordinated and comprehensive development of large scale sites for residential,commercial and mixed-use developments

With over 30 years’ involvement in successfully leading construction projects from single dwellings to multi-million pound developments in all sections, the Practice has considerable project management experience in consistently delivering a wide range of high quality public, private and commercial developments.

Backed by an experienced administration team, the Practice achieves timely decision making, monitoring and feedback from projects such as busy primary schools to fast track commercial developments, all in accordance with our accredited office procedures and methods of working. Our Quality, Environment and Health & Safety Management Systems are all externally certified to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 respectively. These accreditations are annually audited to ensure company compliance.

We use the Government’s Achieving Excellence in Construction along with the NEC Philosophy of Risk Management as tools to best ensure projects are completed safely to the client’s brief, on time, on budget and with measured performance standards.

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