Dover Court Estate

by Pollard Thomas Edwards

Client Islington Council

Award RIBA London Award 2024

Why shouldn’t homes for social rent match the private development domestic experience, with elegant, well-designed homes in a great setting and with a sense of security?

Dover Court Estate cogently answers that question. A carefully implemented reimagining of a 1960s Modernist estate near Balls Pond Road in Islington, it is a blueprint for renewing existing social housing estates and helping to maintain and support communities.

Delivering 70 homes across eight sites without relocation of residents, it carefully replaced disused garages with new buildings, and added a new ball court and community centre. Stitching together a formerly intimidating estate landscape, the architects have created a new series of welcoming spaces and buildings which can be enjoyed by all residents and visitors in this diverse community. The project exemplifies careful and considered briefing and design at every stage.

Read the full citation from the RIBA Awards Jury on RIBA Journal.

Contractor Lovell Partnerships

Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultant Copping Joyce

Civil, Structural and MEP Engineers Calfordseaden

Arboriculturalist Honey Tree Specialists

Landscape Architect Farrer Huxley

Sustainability Clafordseaden

Employer's Agent Summers Inman

Gross internal area in m² 5790