Shape Architecture has successfully completed a Duplex Flat project in a prominent location on Third Avenue, Hove, set within a Conservation Area. We gained several planning permissions to co-opt an existing storage room below our client’s flat into habitable accommodation and linking the two to create a duplex. Permission was also granted for a lightwell at the front of the property to bring light into the lower ground floor level and also more expansive glazing to the rear of the ground floor to gain more light and better views of the garden. There is no doubt that the flat is totally transformed. Shape architecture has experience of over 30 basement projects and brought this experience to bear here. Additionally, our portfolio of work on listed buildings in the surrounding roads helped negotiate the planning process on this project where issues such as brick specification were closely controlled by the planners. The lower ground floor houses a bedroom, en-suite and small gym space.