Brentwood Green Belt Bunglows

Satish Jassal Architects secured planning permission for a rural housing development in Brentwood, delivering three new three-bedroom bungalows within the Green Belt, replacing a redundant horse stables building.

The scheme carefully balances the requirements of Green Belt policy with the opportunity to provide high-quality housing in a sensitive countryside setting. The design adopts a contemporary architectural language while drawing on local vernacular through the use of traditional materials, including brick and oak cladding.

Each home is designed as a single-storey L-shaped plan, clearly separating living and sleeping areas to provide functional, adaptable layouts. This arrangement also creates sheltered private garden spaces, enhancing amenity while maintaining a strong relationship with the surrounding landscape.

Wildflower green roofs have been incorporated to reduce visual impact and support biodiversity, allowing the development to sit comfortably within its rural context. The low-profile massing further reinforces this approach, ensuring the buildings integrate sensitively into the Green Belt setting.

All homes are designed to meet London Housing Design Guide standards and Lifetime Homes principles, ensuring accessibility, long-term adaptability and high-quality living environments.

This project demonstrates how redundant rural sites can be thoughtfully redeveloped to deliver sustainable housing, responding to both planning constraints and landscape character.