National Housing Design Awards 2025 shortlist announced

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Design for Homes, the organisers of the National Housing Design Awards (HDA), have announced that 48 have been shortlisted for this year’s awards, including a selection of retirement homes/extra care housing developments, supported housing developments, cohousing developments and one shortlisted scheme that specifically refers to some homes for intergenerational living.

The shortlisted schemes are:

  • 2 Hospital Lane in Bridport, by Barefoot Architects for Bridport Cohousing
  • Angel Yard Cohousing, Norwaich by Archio for Sussex Street CIC with TOWN
  • Avon Park in Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire, by PRP for Retirement Villages Group
  • Clover House in Ardwick, Manchester by DK-Architects for Jigsaw Homes North
  • Englishcombe Lane, Bath, by Arcardis for Bath & Noth East Somerset Council
  • Highgate Newtown Community Partners by RCKa for London Borough of Camden
  • Hope Street in Southampton by Snug Architects for One Small Thing
  • Retirement Community Chigwell in Epping Forest by RCKa for Retirement Villages Group
  • Rowan Court in Haringey by Satish Jassal Architects for London Borough of Haringey
  • Wycliffe Park in Horsleys Green by PRP for Audley Group and Royal London Asset Management

Commenting on the announcement, the Housing LIN’s CEO, Jeremy Porteus, stated:

"The Housing LIN is proud to support the Housing Design Awards again this year. It is great to see nearly a fifth of all shortlisted entries in the year’s awards incorporating HAPPI design features across a wider range of housing choices for older people and households with people with varying needs. We also will be featuring Barefoot Architects in our first HAPPI Hour of our Spring/Summer season and you can find out more about Arcadis’ project at last year’s HAPPI Hour session on supported housing."