We have achieved Listed Building Consent for important work to upgrade and reconfigure student accommodation for Trinity College Bristol. The work to the Quad will support Trinity’s strategic plans for diversity and sustainability, improving the thermal envelope and providing fully accessible living, within a grade II listed building.

Firstly, we continue to work on lots of residential developments, from a 25 apartment new build project in Bath, a Listed Building conversion on a Georgian square in Bristol, as well as a larger development of new build houses, and the conversion of historic buildings in the Cotswolds.

Planning permission has been granted for our detached house for Clifton College. The brownfield site lies within Bristol City’s Clifton and Hotwells Conservation Area.

Detailed proposals for this unique house were developed swiftly following a feasibility study in Spring 2023 for the site, currently home to a garage, shed and driveway.

Our proposed low-energy (BREEAM ‘Excellent’) student residential building has received planning permission. The building is adjacent to the Redcliffe Estate in Bristol, and its design echoes the architectural forms of the locally listed post-war apartment buildings. The scheme, for Crown Developments, will provide 10 'cluster flats' on five upper floors and an office suite on the ground floor. The city-centre location is a short walk from the new Bristol University campus at Temple Meads.

Following our work last year to upgrade a series of wards at the Royal United Hospital Bath, we are pleased to announce that we have now been appointed as architects for a number of other projects at the hospital. These include refurbishment work to the Radiotherapy Department and re-organisation of a Day Surgery Unit to improve efficiency in the hospital.

O’LearyGoss Architects won the commission to design an exciting new building for Clifton High School's Sixth Form in 2020. Following a trouble free journey through planning (LB and CA consents required), permission was granted in early 2021 and O’LearyGoss continued as Clifton High’s architects with full duties through all RIBA stages.

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The scaffolding has started to come down around our project on Leicester Street in Bedminster, revealing the 26 apartment building for Crown Developments.

A lovely way to start 2023, with a grant of planning permission for a large new house at Yate Rocks just north of Bristol.

This is the final phase of a project that began nearly 12 years ago when we were asked to look at a former farmhouse and outbuildings bequeathed to a charity. In the meantime the farmhouse has been restored, and a former outbuilding converted to a house. We have also seen three new houses to our designs built on the site of former stables and piggeries, all creating a lovely courtyard development with extensive views over the Bristol Channel.

Our scheme at 129 Cumberland Road for Acorn Property Group (opposite the Aardman Studio) has been submitted for planning. Sited close to the historic SS Great Britain, the apartments are designed to be highly sustainable, including air source heat pumps. The development also includes work to extend and improve the existing commercial use of the adjacent Georgian House.

We have recently submitted a planning application for an extension to a residential care home for people over 65 with dementia. Located in Cornwall, the timber clad buildings will provide 23 additional bedrooms. The development will also create two protected courtyards, which with careful landscaping will provide safe and enjoyable outside spaces for residents.

We are delighted to share that construction has started on our Sixth Form Centre Annex for Clifton High School. This exciting modern extension will join onto the Sixth Form Centre, creating a presentation and social space.

As well as traditional duties during construction, we are looking forward to working with the school to help them make the most of the educational opportunities presented by such a project.

Since launching in 2007 this remains one of Bristol's most sought-after addresses. Our designs for the conversion of the former Victorian Hotel in the Conservation Area of Clifton into 18 large apartments included the reinstatement of the original mansard roof to make room for three spacious penthouses. Each of these had a roof top terrace. The other apartments were each just as stunning.

Bristol Civic Society Environmental Award
Short-listed for RIBA Regional Award