Ty Darran is Caerphilly County Borough Council’s exemplary new later living development located in Risca, South Wales. The project provides 46 new apartments for the over 55s, a series of communal spaces, courtyard garden and extensive landscaped grounds. As a local authority affordable housing project for the elderly, Ty Darran is remarkable in a number of key areas; It is outward looking, not hidden away like ‘sheltered’ housing so often is; located just north of the thriving town centre of Risca, it is proud to be a part of the community with local services and amenities within easy reach for residents to enjoy and maintain independence.
A generous series of communal spaces, each varying in scale and use sit on the key street corner. A double height residents’ lounge at ground floor level, flexible craft, IT and fitness studio spaces at second floor level and cosy TV space, library and games room at third floor level. All designed to gently encourage sociability within the resident community and provide opportunities for the wider community to visit and enliven the scheme. A small wintergarden sitting at fourth floor level, acts as a gently illuminated beacon for the scheme, a warm light drawing residents back home.
Each apartment is dual aspect with generously proportioned windows, providing access to sunlight and natural ventilation. Balconies and terraces offer a private amenity space for every apartment connected to the spectacular valley landscape in which the project sits. All apartments are connected to a shared external walkway wrapping the courtyard garden. Apartments have their front doors and kitchen windows onto these walkways helping form a better-connected community within the scheme, encouraging residents to remain active and engaged, all to the benefit of their health, wellbeing and independence.
Ty Darran is Caerphilly County Borough Council’s exemplary new later living development located in Risca, South Wales. The project provides 46 new apartments for the over 55s, a series of communal spaces, courtyard garden and extensive landscaped grounds. As a local authority affordable housing project for the elderly, Ty Darran is remarkable in a number of key areas; It is outward looking, not hidden away like ‘sheltered’ housing so often is; located just north of the thriving town centre of Risca, it is proud to be a part of the community with local services and amenities within easy reach for residents to enjoy and maintain independence.
A generous series of communal spaces, each varying in scale and use sit on the key street corner. A double height residents’ lounge at ground floor level, flexible craft, IT and fitness studio spaces at second floor level and cosy TV space, library and games room at third floor level. All designed to gently encourage sociability within the resident community and provide opportunities for the wider community to visit and enliven the scheme. A small wintergarden sitting at fourth floor level, acts as a gently illuminated beacon for the scheme, a warm light drawing residents back home.
Each apartment is dual aspect with generously proportioned windows, providing access to sunlight and natural ventilation. Balconies and terraces offer a private amenity space for every apartment connected to the spectacular valley landscape in which the project sits. All apartments are connected to a shared external walkway wrapping the courtyard garden. Apartments have their front doors and kitchen windows onto these walkways helping form a better-connected community within the scheme, encouraging residents to remain active and engaged, all to the benefit of their health, wellbeing and independence.
