About This Live Project

Foxholes is a small village on the busy B1249 mid-way between Driffield and Scarborough in the Yorkshire Wolds. It has a semi-derelict village hall and no funds to renovate it. Their best option appears to be to sell off part or all of the existing site for development and build a new hall elsewhere, though renovation of the existing hall may be possible if funding becomes available.

The purpose of this project is to prepare a hard-nosed assessment of the short- and longterm Sustainability potential of the four options to assist decision-making and fundraising.
This is the kind of assessment that will become increasingly important for architects on all projects as every form of energy
becomes scarce and expensive.

Tuesday, 14 October 2008

3 Sites, 3 Options

In reality we are posed with more than 3 options, there are three potential sites onto which the hall could potentially be located.

The first - the existing hall site. One option being the refurbishment of the existing hall to meet the village's requirements, the second to sell off the hall (or at least the land it sits on) and building on the adjacent grassy plot.

The Second - the selling off of the hall/plot and adjacent grassy site and the possible purchase of a field adjacent the pond and next to the playground on which a brand new hall could be built.

The Third - as the second but the conversion of all/part of the existing church into a new hall and mabe the purchase of an adjacent field sold by the church years ago.
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