Post-occupancy evaluation: Houlton, Alconbury Weald and Priors Hall Park
Client: Urban&Civic
Project type: Post Occupancy evaluation
Location: Houlton (Rugby, Warwickshire), Alconbury Weald (Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire) and Priors Hall Park (Corby, Northamptonshire)
Timeline: September 2021- March 2022
What was the project?
Urban&Civic wanted to understand residents’ lived experience of three new developments. They wanted to use resident feedback to inform the management of those sites as well as the future design of their homes and neighbourhoods, particularly in relation to the next phase of each development.
As part of the pilot of our post-occupancy evaluation service – Resident Review – we provided insights into what residents thought and felt about their neighbourhoods, and we were able to benchmark this against national data.
The work provided specific recommendations for Urban&Civic and featured in a broader series of pilots to develop the Resident Review methodology, which was shared with industry through a report published in July 2022.
What was the impact?
Urban&Civic are using what they’ve learnt through this process to embed quality of life into their sustainability metrics and into design codes going forward.