Staiths South Bank
Gateshead
At the eastern end of a formerly contaminated isolated site at Dunston Staiths, this development is the outcome of a mainstream housing developer’s response to designer Wayne Hemingway’s provocative criticism of the ‘Wimpeyfication’ of Britain by volume housebuilders.
Hemingwaydesign was subsequently invited to join Wimpey in creating a better, more sustainable product which would appeal to the 70% of house buyers surveyed who said they would not buy a house on a new estate. The scheme offers real choice at low cost and incorporates an innovative shared-surface design, making it the largest new-build Home Zone supported by the Department of Transport’s first experimental homezone scheme.
Phase 1's immediate success was demonstrated when buyers queued for two nights prior to the start of sales, with the first release sold within four hours. Investors were restricted to purchasing no more than two units.
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