Better Queensway, Southend-on-Sea

The site is currently dissected by a four and sometimes eight lane highway and underbridge causing high degree of severance to the neighbourhood and wider community. Working with dRMM and LDA, a proposal was set to reduce the highway footprint by 50% and lift the carriageway level with the surrounding landscape, dramatically improving the environmental quality of the neighbourhood, while repurposing the abandoned underpasses as surface water storage as part of a wider SuDS system. This strategy had an important positive impact on commercial viability and deliverability, offering up the opportunity to build an addition 500 new homes.