Contents. Who we are Design considerations Environmental obligations Client expectations Designer s prerogative Case studies. Landscape Maintenance

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2 Contents Who we are Design considerations Environmental obligations Client expectations Designer s prerogative Case studies Rectory Road, Hawkwell Bentley Priory, Stanmore Trumpington Meadows, Cambridge Landscape Maintenance

3 Who we are Established practice celebrating 30 years in staff over 2 offices Sectors include Heritage, Planning, Public Realm and Residential Clients include individual private clients through to well known national housing developers Award winning residential schemes Capital Square Best Landscape Design, What House Awards Albany Gardens Best Landscape Design, New Home Magazine Awards

4 Design considerations 3 key considerations when starting a residential planting scheme: Environmental obligations Client expectations Designer s prerogative

5 Environmental obligations CfSH Code for Sustainable Homes Often forms part of planning conditions Eco 4 credit, Ecological value / gain Use of wildflower meadows Within large areas of public amenity space Within private communal amenity space for apartments Within sustainable drainage basins Native hedging to create boundaries to private amenity space Taxus baccata Ligustrum vulgare Carpinus betulus Fagus sylvatica

6 Environmental obligations Bee friendly planting (not necessarily native) Pieris 'Forest Flame Erysimum 'Bowles' Mauve' Rosmarinus officinalis 'Miss Jessopp's Upright Lavandula angustifolia Anemone x hybrida Native planting Dryopteris filix mas Luzula sylvatica Cornus sanguinea

7 Client expectations Changing trend amongst clients over the past five years No longer bare minimum approach to obtain planning permission Higher density and larger specification planting being requested Value of good quality landscape being more widely recognised Emphasis on instant kerb appeal to aid housing sales, with year round benefit

8 Client expectations Specific developer briefs being issued to all landscape consultants 80% evergreen, 20% deciduous planting across scheme Concentrate on hot spots within the scheme to use larger, higher specification planting Use plants to create enclosure and separation between larger adjacent properties Feature shrubs of litre stock Planting beds framed with and apron of turf for instant maturity and kerb appeal

9 Designer s prerogative Use of planting strategies to: Select themes for different character areas Select colour scheme for each area Select plants appropriate to location Select feature plants for each area Identify strong plant combinations Pinus mugo Pumillo, Digitalis ferruginea, Echinops ritro Veitch s Blue Taxus baccata, Hakonechloa macra, Salvia nemorosa Caradonna

10 Designer s prerogative Incorporate successional planting Contrasting planting palette: Bergenia cordifolia, Narcissus Thalia, Allium Purple Sensation, Hebe Midsummer Beauty, Santolina chamaecyparissus, Lavandula Hidcote, Pyracantha Saphyr Orange Red planting palette: Tulipa 'Red Impression, Achillea millefolium Paprika, Crocosmia Lucifer,Geum Mrs J.Bradshaw, Deschampsia cespitosa Goldtau, Panicum Heavy Metal, Rosmarinus officinalis Severn Seas Pastel planting palette: Oenothera speciosa Siskiyou, Allium nigrum, Phormium Cream Delight, Hydrangea macrophylla Madame Emile Mouillere, Convolvulus cneorum, Lonicera pileata, Lavandula x intermedia Grappenhall

11 Case studies Rectory Road, Hawkwell Bentley Priory, Stanmore Trumpington Meadows, Cambridge

12 Rectory Road, Hawkwell

13 Rectory Road, Hawkwell Client initiative with British Beekeepers Association, proposed species included: Escallonia Donard Beauty Cistus x corbariensis Rosmarinus officinalis Severn Sea Monarda Cambridge Scarlet Large specification, 10L stock giving instant established impact Use of wildflower meadow and native woodland edge planting within areas of open space, as habitat for badgers

14 Bentley Priory, Stanmore

15 Bentley Priory, Stanmore Feature planting to complement high end architectural form, species included: Cupressus sempervirens Green Pencil Ilex aquifolium 'Argentea Marginata' Ligustrum ovalifolium Aureum Predominantly green planting palette with small colour accents. Code for Sustainable Homes Level 3 Native tree planting including oak, yew and Scots pine Ornamental planting of known value to wildlife Swathes of native bulb planting eg. Wild Daffodil & Bluebell

16 Trumpington, Cambridge

17 Trumpington, Cambridge Predominantly 10L stock planting giving instant established impact Sensitive planting design of numerous pocket park play areas Large proportion of evergreen species Pachysandra terminalis 'Green Carpet Pittosporum tenuifolium 'Tom Thumb Choisya 'Aztec Pearl' Skimmia japonica Rubella Ceanothus 'Concha'

18 Landscape Maintenance Landscape Management Plans Requirement under Planning Conditions Often cover initial 5 10 year period of establishment Client will usually appoint a Management Company Detailed LMP document covers actions required Longer Term Management Owner removal and replanting Review of planting scheme after 10 years Removal of over dominant species Creation of a lasting and defining landscape character

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