Office S&M has won planning for a terrace of three homes overlooking the Thames that are clad with aluminium panels.

The design is intended to be a modern reference to the timber weatherboard homes that until the 1940s characterised the village of Chalk, on the edge of Gravesend in Kent. Charles Dickens used to holiday in the village and Great Expectations was inspired by his observations there.

Goldsmith Mews, named after the first landlady of the Lord Nelson pub which once neighboured the site, is an infill project that will be built on some derelict garages.

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