Caddick’s St Martin’s Court Lancaster: design and retrofit notes for project teams
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Caddick Construction has completed St Martin’s Court in Lancaster for Progress Housing Association, delivering the city’s first extra care facility for over‑55s with care needs, combining new-build one and two-bedroom apartments with the conversion of two former military barracks into 16 additional affordable units. Three one-bedroom layouts are fully wheelchair-accessible, and the scheme incorporates assisted and spa bathing, a hairdressing facility, games room, laundry room and roof terraces. External works include remodelling the existing stone boundary wall, new external lighting, landscaping and a car park equipped with EV charging points, while retaining and restoring historic sandstone fabric.
Technical Brief
- Remodelling of the existing stone boundary wall suggests careful sequencing to protect heritage masonry stability.
- External lighting installation implies upgraded underground services and coordination with existing utilities around the retained buildings.
- EV‑equipped car park introduces additional electrical load and cable routing constraints within a constrained brownfield footprint.
- Landscaping works had to integrate with historic fabric, avoiding undermining of shallow foundations to old walls.
- Mixed new‑build and conversion typologies on one site demand differing foundation, drainage and movement‑joint strategies.
Our Take
Caddick Construction’s work at St Martin’s Court in Lancaster sits alongside a run of mixed-use and industrial schemes in our database (Farington Park, Bicycle Works, Big Yellow in Newcastle), signalling that the contractor is balancing social infrastructure for over‑55s with a strong commercial pipeline rather than specialising solely in care or residential conversions.
Progress Housing Group’s involvement at St Martin’s Court aligns with a pattern in our Infrastructure coverage where housing associations in the United Kingdom increasingly rely on experienced regional contractors like Caddick Construction to deliver smaller, complex refurbishments and conversions that mainstream volume housebuilders tend to avoid.
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