Housing

Leybourne Grange
West Malling, Kent

Client: English Partnerships and Taylor Wimpey

Town planning
Urban design
Landscape architecture
Architecture
Graphic design

Terence O’Rourke worked with Taylor Wimpey and the Homes and Communities Agency on the residential redevelopment of the former Leybourne Grange Hospital site near West Malling in Kent.

The project was designed as an exemplar new community, and offers high quality new homes in an attractive, healthy and sustainable environment. The project delivers over 700 dwellings, a new village centre and large areas of open space across the 99-hectare site. These are set in the historic parkland of the grade II listed Manor House, which has been restored to form the centrepiece of the scheme. Throughout the design process the practice had to meet the rigorous and sometimes competing objectives of the Homes and Communities Agency, the local authority and client.

Terence O'Rourke is an award winning planning and design company, integrating these skills to help deliver exceptional projects.

Our team offers town planning, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design and environmental planning (including environmental impact assessment, heritage and ecology) services. We have a unique skillset and approach that deals creatively with challenging planning situations to deliver commercially viable solutions across all sectors of the economy.
We work with nationally and internationally known clients including:

BAE Systems, BMW Rolls Royce, Grosvenor, McLaren and Warner Bros., major housebuilders and infrastructure providers and have worked on high profile projects and sites such as the Chewton Glen Hotel and Spa Tree Houses, the Clay Country eco-community, the Goodwood Estate, Luton Airport, Silverstone Park, Mercedes-Benz World, Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden and Studio Tour – 'The Making of Harry Potter.'