LABC Building Excellence Awards 2022 winner: Best Large Social Housing Development

More than 850 leading construction industry figures attended the LABC Building Excellence Awards at the Westminster Park Plaza Hotel to celebrate best practice, quality, and exemplary standards in construction.

The LABC Building Excellence Awards focus on professional skills and competence, as well as projects, with categories for ‘People’ and ‘Places.’

A panel of industry experts judged a selection of the highest quality projects, professionals, and teams from around England and Wales to showcase solutions to complex technical or construction issues, site constraints and technical innovation. The awards highlight the vital contribution public sector building control teams make as part of the project team, ensuring safe, sustainable, and high-quality construction projects. 

LABC is delighted to announce that the winner of the Best Large Social Housing Development is High Path Regeneration, Colliers Wood, London. The project was designed by PRP Architects LLP and built by Hill Partnerships. The client was Clarion Housing Association.

High Path Phase One is the first of seven proposed phases of regeneration that will vastly improve the High Path area of Merton, involving the relocating of the existing residents on the estate, along with the necessary due process to achieve an acceptable planning solution that was affordable. This project overcame various issues, turning them into opportunities for innovative problem solving, involving all stakeholders from the outset. The end product, a mix of townhouse and apartments, is of extremely high quality, exceeding the minimum building regulations standards in acoustics and tenant specific adaptations, with a clear focus on access. 

With the assistance of the LABC building control team from the London Borough of Merton, High Path Phase One was completed many months ahead of the planned programme and within budget and has proved a great boost to the area and given confidence to all stakeholders that going forward the next phases can be equally successful.

Congratulating the whole team on their success, Lorna Stimpson, LABC Chief Executive said,