Fortis Green Tennis Club
This proposal revitalises the existing Fortis Green Tennis Club site, retaining and significantly upgrading its recreational use while introducing a modest collection of new homes.
The scheme delivers both refurbished and new tennis courts alongside a modern clubhouse with enhanced facilities, ensuring long-term viability of the club while continuing to serve the local community.
In parallel, 5 terraced houses and 3 apartments are carefully arranged across the site, responding to its natural topography and constrained backland condition to minimise visual impact and preserve key views.
The architecture draws from the surrounding interwar and contemporary context, using a palette of green-toned brick, timber and metalwork to echo local character while reinforcing a connection to the adjacent woodland.
Buildings step with the landscape and are broken down through vertical elements and layered façades to reduce perceived mass. Fenestration is strategically designed to frame views towards Cherry Tree Wood while protecting neighbouring privacy through sensitive placement, set-backs and screening.
A landscape-led approach underpins the scheme, with green roofs, integrated planting and enhanced soft landscaping increasing biodiversity and softening the built form. Each home benefits from private amenity in the form of gardens, terraces or balconies, directly connected to living areas to maximise daylight and outlook.
Access is improved via a new entrance from Cherry Tree Road alongside retained pedestrian routes, with discreetly integrated car and cycle parking supporting sustainable transport.
Sustainability measures including high performance building fabric, rainwater harvesting and optimised orientation are embedded throughout.
