Our indicative masterplan for the Finsley Gate/Healey Royd site in the Weavers’ Triangle, Burnley, Lancashire includes public space, housing, commercial space, community buildings and a proposal for the restoration of Finsley Gate Mill. The scheme, for site owner St Modwen Properties plc, received outline planning approval in March 2011.

Our scheme is based upon logical and legible pedestrian movement. The relationship between the leisure environment of the canal, the everyday connections with the town centre, and the need to integrate the adjacent housing areas was fundamental to the development of the new plan.

Click HERE for the images from my lecture at Liverpool School of Architecture on 9 March 2012.

Dominic Roberts

Dominic Roberts and Francis Roberts are registered as Architects Accredited in Building Conservation (AABC).

What is the AABC?

The architects listed on this Register have all been assessed as to their individual knowledge and experience in conservation work by their peers in a team which also included a knowledgeable non-architect to ensure an element of public participation in the assessment process.

In the selection of an architect for a particular commission it is always important to have met the individual, know more about their experiences with similar projects, resources, personal qualities, managerial skills and reputation. It is normal for them to provide details of their practice and projects or assignments carried out and for a potential client to see the latter and make appropriate enquiries.

This register is compiled under the authority of ACCON Ltd trading as the AABC Register; Registrar: No. 5 The Parsonage, Manchester, M3 2HS

AABC Register

Images L-R: Conversion of Summer Hill, a Georgian house in Cumbria (listed Grade ll); repair and restoration of the hammer-beam roof, gutters, roof covering and stonework at St Walburge, Preston (listed Grade l); historic building architect for works at Blackpool Tower (listed Grade l).

We are currently producing working drawings for a new family house on Lancaster Road, Didsbury, South Manchester. Planning permission for the building was granted last year.

For the past nine months we have been working as historic building architects for the refurbishment works to the Tower top and interior at Blackpool Tower. These areas were opened to the public on 1 September. New features include the glass floor at the tower top.

Click here for a slide show of Andy Marshall’s new photographs of our conversion and extension of Summer Hill near Ulverston. The scheme consists of five apartments, and a new house for the owners.

The approach from the drive. New entrance to the apartments to the left, and the entrance to the new private house beyond.

Approaching the new house at upper ground level. The original Georgian mansion is to the right, now converted into apartments.

Our scheme for twelve new houses at Dunsop Bridge in the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire, has received Planning Approval.

The new affordable houses for rent are being constructed for the Duke of Lancaster’s Housing Trust and form a sensitive new addition to this village in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The County Council AONB officer commented: In many ways this application exemplifies the high standards that can be achieved in planning design of new development to conserve and enhance the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Our office is now at 1 Ribblesdale Place, Preston, PR1 3NA immediately opposite the Harris Institute and next to Avenham Walk.

Tel: 01772 562221
Email: architects@francisroberts.com