Don Clark Associates | Projects

“Don’s particular skill lies in conceiving an innovative design whilst undertaking rigorous skilful and productive negotiations with the local authority Planners … the concept and impressive attention to detail gave Oriel College a solution that had not previously seemed possible, and brought significant added value to the property. Oriel has been delighted with the service provided by Don and is very happy to commend him for similar work”. Gerald Inns, Master of Works, Oriel College, Oxford. “Don … worked very hard to get planning permission … significantly through his skill and judgement, and against my expectations, planning was obtained (for) our new, and very necessary, factory.” Richard Wylde MA.PhD CEng FIEE, Managing Director, Thomas Keating Ltd. “I have known Don Clark for many years and have used him on numerous conversions of various types of buildings … I would whole-heartedly recommend Don … as an architect/planner dealing with such types of development”. Roger Taylor FRICS, Chartered Surveyor Director, London & Continental Securities Limited, Wimbledon Village, London “ … I am very pleased with the outcome … I shall have no hesitation in recommending you to anyone with whom I come into contact who needs an architect … thanks again for all your help (and patience) Don - it has been a pleasure working with you. I will keep in touch. Mr. Vercoe, a private client (remodelling works for a cottage in a Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty).
Mouse over the image for more pictures	Some examples of recent completed contracts that illustrate the range, scope and carefully crafted quality of our work for a variety of valued clients.
	The Driftbridge Apartments, Epsom. Completed Commercial Project Conversion, with a new west wing, of a local historic landmark hotel into 23 luxury apartments. Developer/Builder client Approx 2000 Sq.m. We were appointed at scheme inception to prepare a feasibility study and then full scheme design, leading to submission for Full Planning approval as Agents, and Full Plans Building Regulations submission. Driftbridge Project Resume
	THE CEDARS, EPSOM Completed Residential Project A Grade 2* (two star) listed 18th.C. building converted from a redundant council centre into seven luxury apartments with 3 new cottages in the grounds built on foundation piles close to mature TPO trees. We gained unanimous planning committee support after detailed dialogue with the Local Authority Conservation Officer, and direct negotiation with the English Heritage Team Leader for much of the South East of England. The Cedars Project Resume
	Drakefield Road, Tooting Completed Residential Project An enormously constrained site with a ground floor, basement and two windows in total. We gained planning permission and strong added value for the airy and spacious two bedroom (4 person) maisonette.
	Woodcote, Cranleigh Completed Residential Project A replacement new dwelling of approximately 2,700 sq. ft.) on the edge of Cranleigh and adjacent to “Countryside Beyond the Green Belt”, which gained planning permission at an Informal Hearing Appeal.
	Urban House Conversions We have designed perhaps fifteen or twenty such conversions in recent years, and have found that the thorough design work needed for an optimisation of the property's potential can often yield surprising results - both in the number of dwellings that can be created, and in the high standard of quality of dwelling and added value that can be achieved. Clairview Road Project Resume Lambert Road Project Resume Vant Road Project Resume
	The Sussex Tavern, Streatham Completed Mixed Project A Mixed use development - The Sussex Tavern, Streatham (2005/6). A conversion, with additional top floor, of a large public house into a mixed use development with 12 flats above a ground floor office use and a 1st. Floor courtyard for the flats.
	Wheatfield Way, Kingston Completed Mixed Project A Mixed use development in Wheatfield Way, Kingston – a site severely constrained by planners’ requirements with regard to townscape considerations, and a property for which the planning permission nevertheless gained significant additional office accommodation.
	Thomas Keatings, Billingshurst, West Sussex Completed Commercial Project Thomas Keating are part of the TeraHertz Group and manufacture high precision tooling and scientific instruments (particularly in High Field Electron Spin resonance spectroscopy, including space-borne projects such as the Planck Cosmic Microwave Background mission. Richard Wylde, the M.D. of Thomas Keatings Ltd. and the TeraHertz Group, contacted us for advice in connection with ongoing difficulties his company was experiencing with the Local Authority Planning department. The company was considering a move from its old factory to more appropriate premises. We suggested that rather than move premises, he consider a split of the site into industrial and residential uses. Following complex design negotiation, we gained a Full Planning approval for the company to retain one half of the industrial site for their new factory and to develop the other half as 14 apartments. The residential site was sold with the benefit of the Planning approval. This helped significantly fund the new factory, which was opened by Radioastronomer Robert Wilson, co-discoverer of the Cosmic Microwave Background / Big Bang, and 1978 winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics. Thomas Keatings Project Resume Thomas Keatings Project Plans Thomas Keatings Reference
	Some of Don’s Illustration and Design Study watercolours

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