Park Road
A three-storey office building near Sittingbourne high street, won at the second attempt by solving an access constraint that had sunk the first application.
- Location
- Sittingbourne, Kent
- Type
- Commercial — offices
- Status
- Planning approved
- Year
- 2023
- RIBA stages
- 0–3
- Practice
- PJArchitecture
A three-storey office building near the high street in Sittingbourne. Following my mentor's meeting with the client, I prepared the sketch designs and joined the pre-application meeting with the planning officer.
The first application was refused — not on design, but because refuse vehicles couldn't reach the site at the required width. Rather than redesign blindly, I worked through the problem with the planning officer, transport consultants and refuse-collection teams to establish a workable solution. The second application was approved: a reminder that good architecture often turns on resolving the unglamorous constraints.
