Woodbrook Eco Village, Lisburn

Client
The Carvill Group
Location
Ballinderry Road, Lisburn
Value
£15m / €21m
Role
Architect
Procurement
Developer self build
Stage
Complete June 2009

Woodbrook is a major sub-urban residential development, located in a greenfield site on the outskirts of the city of Lisburn.

The development masterplan brought forward for developers The Carvill Group, evolved in accordance with the DoES’s quality initiative “Creating Places”.

Woodbrook Eco Village, Lisburn
Woodbrook Eco Village, Lisburn

The initial phase of development included 300 housing units, ranging from single bed apartments to family dwellings, and combining terraces with detached houses, with focal point buildings – each establshing up their architectural language and materiality from vernacular and traditional forms in the surrounding countryside and towns.

Woodbrook Eco Village, Lisburn
Woodbrook Eco Village, Lisburn
Woodbrook Eco Village, Lisburn

Particular attention was also paid to landscaping and ensuring pedestrian priority across the development.

Sustainability was a key brief requirement, with the scheme being labelled as Northern Ireland’s first Eco Village, with the housing being served by centralised wood pellet boilers.