The brief
The Landscape Workshop was commissioned to prepare a detailed landscape plan for a small rural residential plot, with the layered objective of demonstrating full retention of the existing mature tree stock, integrating new built form into the surrounding rural lanes context, and providing the local planning authority with enough detail to discharge the landscaping condition without further submissions.
Our approach
The plan documents every existing tree on and adjacent to the site, with retention status clearly identified for each — trees to be retained, trees with no impact, and the small number to be replaced — so that the planning officer could read the existing tree strategy at a glance. New hedge planting was added along the road frontage and the most exposed boundaries, with new tree planting calibrated against the existing canopy structure to layer the development in over time.
The detail
Hard landscape elements included a permeable block paving for the access and parking spaces, a designated turning area, a sandstone paving threshold to the principal entrance, and a tightly defined refuse and bicycle store. The proposed planting palette was deliberately mixed — a structural native framework along the edges, ornamental specimen interest at the main frontage, and a layered ground cover beneath — with each plant role keyed to a clear planting schedule that the landscape contractor could implement directly. The plan was issued at a resolution sufficient to support both the planning submission and the practical delivery of the works on site.
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