Bacton Low Rise wins Housing Project of the Year Award


December 2016

Rydon’s regeneration of Bacton Low Rise (Phase 1) has won the prestigious Building Magazine Award: Housing Project of the Year 2016.

The £50m redevelopment, which the Rydon team has been delivering on site since 2014, involves the full demolition of the estate, which suffered from inefficient design and was in poor condition and is making way for 290 new homes comprising 176 for open market sale, 104 for affordable rent and 10 for shared ownership.

The Building Awards judges picked Bacton Low Rise for the sought after accolade for the care and attention that has been put into delivering new homes and facilities that the residents had involvement in throughout the process, specifically:

  • The revival and rebuilding of a deprived and run down inner-city housing estate, replacing the existing social housing units with modern and low maintenance housing
  • Quality a key driver throughout to deliver high quality new social housing accommodation including five-bed, four-storey townhouses, featuring in particular private roof-top terraces finished with timber decking
  • Community involvement has been thorough and genuine throughout the regeneration, seeking engagement and buy in with the TRA (Tenants & Resident Association) 

Building Magazine’s full review of this redevelopment “Bacton Low Rise: Community blessed” can be accessed here.

Bacton Low Rise has also been ranked amongst the Guardian's top 10 buildings of 2016.

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