The brief
The Landscape Workshop was commissioned to prepare an illustrative landscape masterplan for a planning application for a short terrace of new dwellings on a village-edge site. The masterplan needed to communicate, in a single drawing, how the new homes would relate to the existing rural lane, how the front-garden landscape framework would step the development back from the road, and how the structural planting palette would knit the new buildings into the surrounding rural fringe.
Our approach
The masterplan opens out the front of each plot into a generous shared landscape framework rather than treating each garden as an isolated parcel. Existing trees and hedge structure along the road frontage are retained and reinforced, with a defined hedge line marking the boundary between the public lane and the private gardens. New tree planting is layered through the front-garden zone in informal clusters that read as part of the wider hedgerow network rather than as discrete ornamental specimens, with structural shrub and groundcover planting threaded through to provide year-round visual interest at residents’ daily eye level.
The detail
The planting schedule was prepared at species, size and pot specification level for each landscape role: structural native hedgerow species along the road frontage; mid-storey shrubs along the building edges; specimen tree planting at key turning points; and a coordinated ground-layer mix designed to deliver year-round colour and texture. Hard landscape elements were specified for permeability where appropriate, with refuse and bicycle storage discreetly placed within the planting framework. The plan was issued at a resolution that supported both the planning submission and the eventual delivery of the works on site.
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