Situated between residential properties to the east and south, and retail premises to the west, we decided that the proposed building has the ability to create an appropriate relationship between the varying use classes.

With the care home situated on a plateau at the top of the site, we considered a number of iterations for the scale of the care home. A large number of 3 storey residential properties surround the site as well as 2 storey. To the west, sits the approved Aldi foodstore which has a larger retail scale, although it does sit at a lower level.

It was determined, that a more traditional styled, pitched roof arrangement would provide too large of a scale and mass when positioned at the top of the site. As such, a more contemporary-styled, flat roof approach was adopted. This had the benefit of limiting the scale and mass of the building to an acceptable relationship with the surrounding residential properties, as well as sharing a similar roof treatment to the adjacent approved Aldi foodstore.