Conversion of Redundant Agricultural Buildings and Class Q Permitted Development
We were recently asked to look at a potential barn conversion with a client who wishes to create a new family home for themselves. As architects who love combining old and new and working with existing buildings, its a great opportunity to be creative. We have recently completed or are working on several urban re-use…
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Rescuing Buildings at Risk through Creative Reuse
Last week Sheffield City Council released a list of 20 buildings judged by their Conservation Officers as being ‘at risk’. The ’20 x 20’ list looks across the city to identify historic buildings that could be saved and converted to create over 300 new homes. The list includes the Farfield Inn in Neepsend, the former Middlewood…
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Happy New Year from Thread Architects
We really enjoyed 2018 and are looking forward to 2019. We hope you have a brilliant year.
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Community Consultation in Shirebrook
As part of a successful team bid with Junction Arts and Zantium Studios, we were recently appointed to the Building Resilience Programme in the NG20 area. This programme is running a series of projects across the NG20 area that support public services to meet the needs of the community and improve cohesion. The project we…
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Shirebrook Market Shops
Excited to be working with @JunctionArtsUK on a project to engage retailers, young people and the local community to develop a range of creative and distinctive ideas aimed at transforming the shop fronts in the centre of Shirebrook. We will start our community engagement next Tuesday at Shirebrook Market. Do watch out for updates on…
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Anyone fancy a unique plot near Barnsley?
Following on from our blog about building new homes in the countryside through Paragraph 79 , we’ve seen this plot in Cawthorne, Barnsley come up for sale by auction with Mark Jenkinson Property Specialists. The site contains a derelict 17th Century stone cottage that is considered to be “abandoned” in planning terms (it certainly looks it…
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Working with Communities
Here at Thread we often work with community groups who are aiming to develop facilities for their local area. Getting a community led project off the ground can feel like a daunting task and will take a lot of enthusiasm, time, energy and support from a large pool of people but often we’ve found that…
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Paragraph 79
As well as working on our projects at Thread Architects, Rachel, Anya and Andy all explore and broaden their architectural knowledge, skills and expertise through their other roles and interests. We will be looking at some of these roles and experiences in our blog over the next few weeks. This first blog by Andy explains…
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New Thread Office, Solihull
We are excited to announce that Thread has set up a new Birmingham based office! Our Director, Rachel, has recently relocated to the Solihull area and will be extending Thread’s geographic reach into this new region. Rachel will continue to be involved with projects based at the main office in Sheffield and we will continue…
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