Lemsford Village: CRS Reveal® and CGI for Six New Homes on a Former Pub Site

Slide the arrows left and right on the images below to see 'CRS Reveal' in action.

Charles Roberts Studios produced CGI and three CRS Reveal® before-and-after sliders for a proposed development of six new homes on the site of the former Long Arm Short Arm pub in Lemsford, Hertfordshire. The pub had been vacant for some years, and the brief was to show how new housing would sit within the village.

The scheme is six three-bedroom homes, each with a private garden and off-street parking. The new houses are in brick, with dark tiled roofs and chimneys, to sit alongside the traditional buildings around them.

Three views, before and after

Each CRS Reveal® slider is taken from a fixed position, so the existing site and the proposed homes can be compared directly. One shows an elevated view of the site frontage, one an eye-level view along the village street, and one an aerial view over the wider setting. In the street view, the proposal can be judged against the neighbouring terraces and the road as people see them. The aerial view shows the six homes in relation to the village, the green space and the woodland beyond.

Photography and CGI

The CGI was built into drone and eye-level photography of the site, so the new homes are shown in their real setting rather than in a model of it. The sliders let a viewer move between the pub site as it stood and the scheme as proposed, without needing to read plans. Planning permission has since been granted.

For more on this approach, see our exterior CGI page.