Dowen Farmer Architects has designed a six-home mews development that would sit on top of an existing garage block in a north London suburb.

The practice’s proposals, worked up for Foxglade Properties, retain the ground-floor level of the 28-car block at the private Belmont Close estate in Cockfosters, but would introduce a first-floor slab and new homes above it.

An application submitted to local planning authority Enfield Council acknowledges that the garage block’s existing pitched perimeter roof would be removed, however it asserts that the design for the mix of two- three- and four-bedroom homes replacing it “nods” towards the tone of the existing homes on the site.

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