Awards
Nine Awards achieved for Bourbon Lane
Octavia Housing celebrate seven awards for their Bourbon Lane scheme in White City, West London.
Octavia Housing is celebrating as Bourbon Lane, their flagship new development in West London, had been recognised for excellence with its ninth prestigious award.
A Commendation for high standard of design at the Structural Steel Design Awards 2008 was the latest in a long line of awards presented to Octavia Housing for their flagship scheme. Up against the likes of The O2 Arena and Terminal 5 at Heathrow, the affordable housing development was described as “a radical move for housing design in the UK” and “an innovative scheme that breaks new ground in urban design” at the award ceremony held on 8 July.
Bourbon Lane provides 78 highly desirable affordable homes for families and key workers and has already won six other wards including the prestigious Housing Design Awards, sponsored by the Department for Communities and Local Government, which showcase strong designs that can successfully reinvigorate and regenerate neighbourhoods and provide quality homes to the highest environmental standards
Completed in July 2007, the £12m scheme is the result of an Anglo-French competition which aimed to develop best practice in the design of affordable housing in both the UK and France through experimental projects.
Since then, the site has been recognised with a number of honours including the Civic Trust award, RIBA London Region Housing Design Award, Housing Design Awards Award winner for completed projects, Evening Standard Housing Design Award and was recognized with a commendation from the Mail on Sunday Housing Design Awards.
Speaking at the Housing Design Awards ceremony held on 3rd July, Grahame Hindes, Chief Executive of Octavia Housing said:
“Bourbon Lane represents the cutting edge of design. We are committed to delivering the best possible housing for our tenants, and the six awards that Bourbon Lane has won so far proves that we are really achieving this”.
Commenting on the scheme, designed by Cartright Pickard Architects and B+C Architects, Housing Minister at the time, Caroline Flint said:
“The winners are testament to the creativity in the industry and demonstrate the possibilities for designing sustainable, low carbon housing that will last the test of time”
