Owner: Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust
Developer: David Wilson Homes
Landscape Architect
Landscaping of the various open spaces within the development and the belt of parkland around it – including various types of natural landscape ponds, playground, etc.
Integral part of the development whose buildings won an award in the new-residential category last year. It providing landscaped context for the housing development; recreation spaces for the inhabitants. It includes a variety of ecologies. As well as the familiar cut-grass parkland and carefully arranged trees of many varieties, there are areas of meadow flowers and shrubs, a network of waterways and a pond that serve as part of a sustainable Urban drainage and flood prevention system. The landscape serves not only as a recreational green belt to the development but also serves to minimise the impact of the development on the environment.
In this regard as well as others, the estate is a model for residential developments for the future. It is gratifying to see many of the Prince of Wales initiatives on planning and urbanism finally bearing fruit.
