Extra Care Flats

Kenfig Hill, Bridgend, South Wales

This development is our first extra-care project for Bridgend-based Valleys-to-Coast Housing Association, working in partnership with Bridgend County Borough Council. Located in Kenfig Hill, "Llys Ton" replaces an out-dated residential home for the elderly with 39 flats, together with extensive, state-of-the-art communal facilities; and has been designed to achieve a BREEAM “Excellent” rating. Organised around an east-facing courtyard garden, the communal accommodation is orientated to promote passive solar gain and natural ventilation via its central, south-facing, double-height restaurant/activities space. In these and other ways we have endeavoured to fuse our people-centred architecture with common-sense sustainability, to produce an extra-care architecture that responds to its users and to its site in equal measure.

Llys Ton was officially opened on St David's day, 2012 by Councillor Lyn Morgan and paralympic double gold medallist cycling champion, Simon Richardson, MBE.