The brief
The Landscape Workshop was commissioned to prepare a landscape plan supporting a planning application for a short terrace of new dwellings on a small site at the rural fringe of an existing settlement. The plan was required to demonstrate a clear strategy for boundary planting, garden frontages and shared external spaces, and to set out a defined plant palette that the local planning authority could be confident would be delivered.
Our approach
The layout works with the natural fall of the site, with each unit fronting a shared internal access. We retained the existing tree and hedgerow framework along the southern and western edges, then layered new structural planting over it: a defined boundary hedge along the road frontage, ornamental front-garden mixes for each individual plot, specimen trees at key turning points, and a more naturalistic native shrub and groundcover mix along the rear boundary stepping the development back into the wider field pattern.
The detail
The planting palette was deliberately curated rather than purely native, balancing ornamental year-round interest at the residents’ daily-use frontages with structural native species at the wider boundaries. Plant photographs were included alongside the schedule on the issued plan so the planning officer, the contractor and the eventual residents would have a shared visual reference for what each species would look like in place. Hard landscape elements were specified for permeability where appropriate, in line with the local sustainable drainage requirements.
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