Shoebury Garrison Masterplan
This 96 Hectare historic garrison was formerly
the British School of Gunnery and a major training and experimental
base for the army from the 1850’s to the 1990’s.
It occupies a strategic site on the northern tip of the Thames Estuary,
includes a scheduled ancient monument, 40 listed buildings and an
SSSI. The site was acquired from Estate Defence by Gladedale Homes
in Spring 2000.
Allen Tod has prepared a masterplan delivering housing, employment,
leisure, community uses, hotel, school and a new 35 hectare park.
Supporting work includes a design report - a comprehensive audit of
the historic, cultural and landscape assets of the site, and impact
assessments.
The masterplan resolves access, drainage, flood defence, archaeological
and historic building issues to create a place that is sustainable
and does justice to this unique location.
Horseshoe
Barracks
The Horseshoe Barracks is a unique arrangement of barrack blocks around
a large recreation and parade ground. It formed the main residential
area for other ranks in the Shoebury Garrison and British School of
Gunnery, and is one of it’s key landscape spaces.
Allen Tod has submitted detailed proposals for its conservation and
reuse as dwellings, with the original NAAFI retained as a club for
residents. The scale of the original parade ground has been reinstated
and landscape and planting restored, whilst new housing is inserted
in the spaces behind the barrack blocks creating a series of courtyards.
The proposals preserve and enhance the best of the existing Listed
Buildings and delivers 120 new dwellings to bring life back
to this unique historic space.
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