As an integral part of the Cardiff Living partnership between the city council and Wates residential, Silvervale Park will be a development of 192 contemporary houses and apartments on a large green-field site in St. Mellons. Key to the design is the retention of valuable areas of existing green space as buffers to the busy roads to the site’s boundaries and as a thread of focal points throughout. 61 dwellings will be affordable. A clear, legible urban grain that is inspired by Cardiff’s familiar and desirable terraced streets makes the development easy to navigate and provides excellent connections to the wider community. The styling of dwellings will give a clear sense of identity to both homes and streetscapes and achieve a high density without compromising architectural quality. Familiar repetition with a continuous building line, elegant proportions with generous opening sizes, and steep roof pitches will be attractive to potential purchasers. A combination of innovative house types and new internal roads comprising home-zones designed in accordance with Secured by Design and RNIB principles, will make Silvervale Park a hugely desirable place to live. With praise for the design from the committee members, the scheme achieved planning approval in September 2016 and started on site in the Summer of 2017.