Construction work has now started on the second residential phase of the Duchy of Cornwall's new town of Poundbury, near Dorchester. Robert Adam Architects Limited has designed thirty five of the new dwellings, ranging from two bedroom flats to five bedroom detached houses.

Our clients, the locally based developer and builder C G Fry and Son, were responsible for significant sections of the highly acclaimed and successful first phase of the settlement. Our involvement in the development began with an invitation from The Duchy of Cornwall to participate in a limited entry competition to produce proposals for the second phase of Poundbury.

Our initial designs won this competition and we were subsequently commissioned by C G Fry and Son to progress the original concepts for four sections of Phase 2 through to drawings for construction purposes. The new buildings continue the Prince of Wales's now proven original vision of Poundbury. The development suggests a gradual and natural growth of townscape and built form that has organically evolved over the years within the framework of traditional building techniques. Dwellings are considered as part of a group of buildings and not just as individual structures. They range in style from provincial eighteenth century Georgian and local vernacular to the Arts and Crafts movement of the late nineteenth century.