Landscape Design

The owners of this house recently built in a stunning location on the Solent shoreline, have asked that we develop and the extend their gardens. A new sunken garden will provide some shelter whilst still allowing open views of the yachts racing past.

Pinders Healthcare Design Awards recognize the finest developments in all care-related property. Camberley Manor, Nursing and Residential Care Home, operated by our client TLC Group, won the 2016 award for ‘Best New Care Home – Elderly’. We are proud to have designed the landscape for this care home with Tom Chapman.

Permission is granted through National Planning Policy Framework Paragraph 55 for an outstanding new house by architects AR Design Studio in Ravenstone, Buckinghamshire. This clause allows for a new individual house that meets the highest tests for exceptional quality and innovative design. Our design for the landscape will create a central valley for the bronze-clad house to project into the space formed.

We’re working on an application for a new house inspired by the profile of the Malvern Hills. The building will be connected to the surrounding garden spaces by outward extension of walls and hedges and the spaces formed between will each have a different aspect and character. Zig-zag paths will cut through naturalistic planting linking all parts of the garden with paths accessible by the clients all-terrain wheel chair. (Permission for the house was subsequently gained March 2017)

Our project for the restoration of a section of the River Avon in Pershore has been selected for ‘good practice‘ guidance. The Environment Agency were so impressed by the drawings submitted that copies will be sent to future applicants who are seeking consent for works to watercourses. A number of techniques were proposed to stabilise and re-vegetate the riverbank and provide a variety of habitats for wildlife on the bank and river.

The Studios have completed the landscape design and landscape impact assessment for Grange Park Opera’s move to West Horsley Place within a new theatre set in the woods behind the historic country house. The annual festival will make use of the garden spaces and old orchard and host a cultural and creative activities within the grounds.

Work has started on the water garden at Timsbury. A stagnant weed-choked pond will be dredged and re-shaped to form the centrepiece for extensive beds of marginal and wetland plants.

Landscape contractor: Just Limegrass

Enclosed by new Cotswold stone walls, a parking area has been re-modelled to become a stepped garden terrace with views over the lawns to the countryside beyond. A new arbour, aligned on the kitchen door, frames a narrow view between half-standard laurels to distant farmland. Planting of semi-mature trees and specimen woodland garden shrubs, has transformed the character of the main lawn.

Permission has been granted for a stunning house in the grounds of the 25 acre woodland garden at Coles, near Privett in the South Downs.  Architecture and landscape design, by AR Design Studio and Ibbotson Studios, evolved collaboratively for a design of harmonious composition integrated with function.