Expert Architects in Torquay

Ortus, headline sponsor of the PDF, have scooped the ‘Highly Commended’ Award at the recent Michelmores Property Awards for their Supported Living accommodation project at Merrivale Road in Plymouth. The 2024 Awards mark 21 years of celebrating the best property, development and construction projects in the South West. The Awards have long-championed sustainability and innovation in the sector and the competition recognises both commercial and residential projects of all shapes and sizes, with shortlisted and winning projects placed firmly in the industry’s spotlight. Here, Director of Ortus and architect Tony Horsey commented after the event “It’s always humbling to have the work we do recognized but being celebrated for a project which has a valuable social outcome makes the hard work all the sweeter. The team at Ortus led this project, to ‘convert’ a former social club, from concept through a successful planning application for the original client, with Pivotal Homes Group Limited managing it through the construction phase to completion. The project, which created 11 new flats, is being used to provide care leavers a safe and managed environment in which to develop experience and skills in independent living. We’d like to thank Lisa Brown of Pebble Properties Ltd for having the original vision and Pivotal Homes for taking it through to completion.”...