Backworth Park

This competition scheme in Backworth, on the outskirts of Newcastle, proposed a masterplan centred around a health community. With a Rehab Centre and Health Hub at its heart, the masterplan provided extra care, assisted living, intermediate care, and multi-generation housing, forming a diverse new forward-thinking community. The competition scheme for Northumberland Estates was undertaken in collaboration with Medical Architecture and Colour Landscape Architects.

The site is bounded by a railline to the south and motorway to the west, the masterplan responded by lining the edges of the site with private or communal gardens and creating a traditional street structure centred around garden squares.

View looking east towards the site entrance showing townhouses to the left and communal green spaces to the right.

View south with the new school on the right looking towards the big green

The masterplan connects to the adjacent communities and provides a hirerahy of community squares.