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28 July 2005
Countryside Properties’ Bennet’s Courtyard at Abbey Mills, Merton has scooped overall winner at the Housing Design Awards where it also won the “Medium-size Housebuilder” category.
The Housing Design Awards are judged by a panel of experts selected by Britain’s leading housing trade magazine, Building.
Feilden Clegg Bradley architects created the scheme on behalf of Countryside Properties, designing the unusual atriums to provide residents with a sense of community and space inside the apartment buildings themselves.
The judges found that Bennet’s Courtyard at Abbey Mills is “a clear-cut yet sensitive response by a medium-sized housebuilder to a suburban site”. They praised the large glazed atriums which replace traditional corridors at the scheme, a feature which creates a fantastically light and modern indoor space which is also an ideal space to meet the neighbours. The judges noted, “in addition, apartments have bay windows that project into the atrium, giving them a dual aspect as well as extra daylight.”
This award comes as an added bonus for the Abbey Mills development, which has just launched its new two-bedroom duplex show apartment on the current phase of the scheme. The duplex apartments at Abbey Mills are arranged over the fourth and fifth floors of the three distinctive new apartment buildings, where each spacious apartment provides living space ranging from 903 sq ft to a sizable 1142 sq ft.
Abbey Mills is a well-located development within walking distance of both South Wimbledon and Colliers Wood tube stations where the journey is under 30 minutes to Waterloo on the Northern Line. A new Virgin Active ‘Life Centre’ has recently opened at the development and a Sainsbury’s Savacentre and the famous Merton Abbey Mills Market with a range of small specialist shops are just a few of the facilities right on the doorstep.
Apartments at the current ‘Prospect’ building at Abbey Mills are available, with one-bedroom apartments starting at £189,950, two-bedroom apartments from £239,950 and two-storey apartments from £309,950. The added incentive of 5% deposit paid is also available (worth up to a maximum of £12,000). For further information please contact the Abbey Mills marketing suite on 020 8543 6377 or visit www.abbeymills.com
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Information correct as at 29/08/2007