Wovenhampton

Wovenhampton is our proposal for the Capital & Centric competition to transform the former Sainsbury’s site at St George’s into a convivial neighbourhood at the heart of Wolverhampton. Our shortlisted proposal created alongside Turner Works and Archio brings over 400 new homes and 1,500 residents into the city centre, creating an outward-facing quarter full of life, activity and opportunity. At its centre sits St George’s Church, reimagined as a community, cultural and commercial hub, with routes passing through it and spilling out into a generous public realm.

The masterplan hosts a family of pocket parks, Old Hall Walk and a network of natural desire lines that make the neighbourhood safe, welcoming and easy to wander. Innovative housing typologies such as stacked maisonettes give residents front doors onto streets and gardens, supported by small independent enterprises, studio spaces and convivial shared amenities.

Wovenhampton is designed as a low-carbon, circular-economy exemplar with simple, robust materials, new cycle connections and a pattern of public spaces that stitch back long-severed edges of the city. Developed alongside local young people and community voices, it lays the foundations for a greener, more sociable, more hopeful Wolverhampton.