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Stretcher Fencing... During WWII the UK government created half a million stretchers made from steel tube and wire mesh? As the war progressed, the government removed fences and other metal items from across London in aid of the war effort. When the war ended, the UK was left with a huge number of steel stretchers and missing fences across London, particularly the southern boroughs. The simple solution? Turn the stretchers on their side and fix them to walls/posts and replace those missing fences. If you walk around south London, you can still see these WWII stretcher fences in place (Becket St and Tabard St near Borough tube station, amongst others). We just love it when history, architecture and fascinating stories collide...

Peter's Village is looking great in the winter sun! Our MD, Steven Fisher, took these fantastic photos on his recent trip to Peter's Village, Kent where he discussed future work on the site. We think Steve got extremely lucky with a little pocket of sunshine in an otherwise wet and cold February. We delivered the design work on 3 phases of the site for Vistry Group, including the gateway phases from the east and west. The latter with stunning views over the River Medway. The final phase we delivered occupies an elevated position to the east of the quarry, enjoying panoramic views over the development, the river and the kent to the west. Designing across multiple phases has allowed us to tie the wider development together and create a distinct character on this very successful development.

🚨 PLANNING APPROVAL 🚨 A great start the new year, with confirmation of planning consent for Phase 1, Barton Hill Drive in Minster-on-Sea for Persimmon Homes. The consent of Phase 1 includes the first 127 homes of a wider 700 home development approved in Outline by Swale Borough Council. The proposals include 1, 2, 3 and 4 bed homes arranged in houses and apartments, with land secured for the sites local centre. Existing landscaping has been retained and integrated into the new play spaces and the high-quality design is reflective of the sites bespoke design code. We look forward to delivering future phases of this exciting development and progressing the detailed design of Phase 1.

FINC Promotions! Wonderful news to start the year as we congratulate Simon Beaven on being promoted to Senior Technical Manager and Katie Cross being promoted to Associte of the technical team in our Chelmsford office. These promotions are in recognition of Simon and Katie's excellent work and successes delivering working drawing projects for our clients in 2024 and for their important roles within our growing technical team. Congratulations to both Simon and Katie! 🎉 🥂 🎉

Busy start to 2025 at FINC ARCHITECTS LTD where we continue to grow. Our Guildford office is recruiting for the following positions in our Design and Landscape teams. - Layout Designer - Architect, or Part 2 (with relevant UK residential houisng experience) - Associate Landscape Architect - Senior Landscape Architect If you're looking for a new challenge please contact Rob Symons, John Markwell CMLI Chris Travell #hiring #recruitment #growth #architecture #landscape #residential #housing #layoutdesigner

Happy retirement Steve Punter from all of us at FINC ARCHITECTS LTD. We wish you all the best now you have finally hung up the pens 🖊️ ✍️ 🏠 A fantastic career with loads of memories created along the way! Cheers to you 🍻

Wishing all of our Friends, Colleagues and Clients a Very Merry Christmas and a Successful 2025! Grab yourself a hot drink and settle in for 7 minutes of festive fun, starring some of your favourite people at FINC! Just click on the link below... https://lnkd.in/eX6PbCdz #homealone #christmas #animation

🚨 NEW EMPLOYEES ALERT 🚨 We are delighted to welcome both Louis Quill and Lin On Chu to the technical team in our Chelmsford office. Louis joins us as an Architectural Assistant, having graduated from his Masters at UCA Canterbury and then spending 7 months travelling through South Asia. Lin On joins us as a Senior Technician, with 30 years of experience producing a range of project types including Residential, Care & Assisted Living and Mixed Us & Commercial. The new recruits are settling in just in time for Christmas, and we look forward to seeing them both in action!

On Friday morning, team FINC travelled to Gdansk in Poland to celebrate another fantastic year for the business, and to kick off the festive season with Christmas markets, amazing food, lots of drinks and some home-made festive secret santa apparal - some better than others! We spent an amazing 2 days laughing, exploring, shopping, eating, drinking and celebrating. A truly magical start to the festive season!

We are delighted to share details of our recently submitted Outline Planning Application, on a highly sustainable site in Four Marks, Hampshire. The proposals include 100 high-quality homes, arranged in a semi-linear pattern to mimic the local housing stock, whilst retaining existing field boundary hedges, trees and landscaping. The site layout includes a network of well integrated open spaces, play spaces and drainage features, to provide a landscape driven proposal. The existing PROW and St Swithuns Way routes have been enhanced by facing development onto these key pedestrian links, set behind extensive landscape buffers. FINC's Landscape team provided LVA/landscape masterplan works for the site, with our architecture team providing the outline planning pack. This application will deliver much-needed homes in a sustainble location, within a short walking distance of the Four Marks local centre, and we are excited to see this application progress.