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We believe access to good homes and places provides the foundation to a healthy society. We are citizen focused; we will work with you to create joyful places that help create a fair and equal world for all.
We tread lightly on the planet, ensuring our designs create a net-positive impact on their surroundings. We will help you find elegant solutions to make your piece of the world work better for generations to come.
We bring lived experience of zero carbon design, development, cost management, planning and a blend of public and private sector knowledge few other architecture practices can offer. We will listen and collaborate with you to develop a design or strategy that is deliverable, beautiful and value for money.
The practice is led by Chloë Phelps, a housing expert with more than twenty years of industry experience.
She is known as an industry leader for creating innovative ways of delivering characterful and affordable housing on small sites and at scale. She leads the Grounded team providing creative direction for the business and is passionate about addressing our social housing crisis. She brings a unique blend of development, placemaking and architectural expertise to each project having worked in leading roles in both the public and private sector.
Chloë is currently involved in the Masterplan for Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community which will deliver 7750 new homes over the next twenty to thirty years. She contributes widely to the profession, has provided advice on housing quality to the GLA, and she is chair of the Thanet Design Review Panel, vice chair of both the Camden Design Review Panel and Ebbsfleet Design Panel. She regularly joins expert panels and is Building Design’s regular columnist on Housing and is a steering group member of the Architects Action for Affordable Housing.
“The report from the Councillors who attended the exhibition was glowing; they were very impressed by you all – so well done!“
“New buildings tend to lack character; I liked that Pump House had character from the outside to the inside.”
"[They]… are not trying to change the world, but change the bit of it that it can influence."
If you would like to speak to us about your project please call us or send us an email.
Phone: 0203 488 9422
E-mail: hello@grounded-practice.com
