Shortlisted: Planning Awards, 2024, Highly Commended: MacEwen Award 2023
Sunspot is a major new project on the seafront at Jaywick Sands in Essex, contributing to the wider Jaywick Sands Place Plan which we are also developing. The project - completed in September 2023 - includes affordable business units, covered market, café, public toilets and meeting rooms alongside a community garden, bus shelter and event space.
Commissioned by Tendring District Council, the project creates a new landmark for Jaywick Sands, generating jobs and local services in a community which has experienced severe deprivation for decades. The building has a distinctive geometric design and graphic colour scheme, and has been designed as a ‘long meanwhile’ project that can be disassembled and re-erected, or the elements reused and recycled, if the site is redeveloped as part of wider long-term regeneration.