The site is close to the centre of a small village within a Conservation Area in the green belt between Bristol and Bath. Used for various industrial purposes for at least 150 years, it is now allocated for housing. Our design for George Wimpey Bristol is based closely on the existing village: its pattern of streets, its scale, its relationship with the beautiful surrounding countryside and its architectural character. Clustered around a square linked directly by a new street to the heart of the village it provides 199 dwellings in 4.2 hectares (a density of 47.4 dwellings per hectare) without rising above three storeys. Careful attention has been given to both the development's interface with its rural setting and to the integration of two listed buildings and a wall surviving from the original mill. An important feature in the composition is the inclusion at street corners of three storey L-shaped buildings housing flats originally designed for The Guinness Trust at Poundbury. Although George Wimpey's standard house plans are used, the street frontages have been designed using the proportions, details and materials found in the local vernacular.