Our Development and Quoted Works Team colleagues have recently completed a large re-cladding project at Burgess Foundry Row, in Camborne.
These homes are located within the Former Holmans Foundry off Trevu Road, Camborne, employing more than 3,500 local people in its heyday, before production ceased.
This site falls within the Cornwall and Devon Mining World Heritage Area so any changes made to the properties here must go through a strict vetting process with proposed materials coming under close scrutiny.
To maintain the industrial aesthetic of the homes delivered here, specific wooden cladding was required on the new homes when they were built back in 2011. Unfortunately, there were issues with the original fixings of the cladding, which was replaced in 2015, only for this to fail again more recently.
Following extensive consultation with Cornwall Council planning services and residents, a revised planning consent was secured to replace the cladding with a new type of material – a Hardie VL Plank interlocking weatherboard system which has a longer life span and requires less maintenance.
Our team members, led by Supervisor Mark Miller, have been working hard at this site across four months to ensure that the new cladding was fitted as promptly as possible once the solution had been identified.
We would like to pass on our thanks to our customers here who have been very patient throughout this process, but think we can all agree how great the homes now look.