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Case Studies

Client:

Darwin Escapes

Landscape Architect:

RPS Planning & Development

Contractors:

Karl Watson Contracting

Project:

Darwin Escapes Keswick Reach Lodge Retreat, Lake District, Cumbria

Date:

Autumn & Winter 2016

Size:

24,600m²

Keswick Reach Lodge Retreat in the Lake District is the latest luxury holiday park by Darwin Escapes, and was opened in…

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Client:

BAM Nuttall

Landscape Architect:

Atkins

Project:

Hampstead Heath Ponds, London

Date:

August 2015 – October 2016

Size:

8,800m²

Hampstead Heath is one of London’s key landmarks, with the much-loved green space enhanced by 30 man-made ponds.

Following studies which indicated that the earth dams represented a significant risk should…

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Client:

Belfast City Council

Contractors:

Farran Construction and Cameron Landscapes

Landscape Architect:

Paul Hogarth Company

Project:

Connswater Community Greenway, East Belfast

Date:

April 2016 – October 2016

Size:

7,235m²

Connswater Community Greenway is a £40 million investment in East Belfast. The project will create a 9km linear park through the city…

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Client:

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London

Landscape Architect:

BDP

Project:

The Hive, Kew, London

Date:

May / June 2016

Size:

2,270m²

Situated in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, The Hive is a 17-metre-high aluminium latticed structure that aims to raise awareness of the rapid decline of the world’s…

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Date: April 2013 – October 2015

Interested parties:

Wildflower Turf Ltd, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, ABG Geosynthetics, Geogreen Solutions, Prater, Laing O’Rourke, BDP.

The brief:

Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool opened in October 2015, and is Europe’s only hospital situated within a…

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Client:

Urban & Civic

Landscape Architect:

Bradley Murphy Design Ltd (BMD)

Landscape Contractor:

Whiting Landscape Ltd

Project:

Alconbury Weald

Date:

November 2014 – Ongoing

Size:

7,500m² to date with more planned

The brief:

Formally an airfield, the site of Alconbury Weald was acquired by property company Urban & Civic in 2009. Currently…

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Client: Paultons Park

Project: Peppa Pig World

Date: May 2010

Size: 1,250m²

Architects HPW Partnership, designed this new themed area at Paultons Park in Hampshire. As part of this project there is a “12,000 sq ft indoor play area providing a brand new space for visitors to…

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Client: Wates Construction

Project: New Holiday Inn, Junction 10 M4

Date: December 2009

Size: 1,382m²

English Landscapes were the contractors for this amazing flat roof at the prestigious new Holiday Inn, just off Junction 10 of the M4.

The turf was laid on the flat roof several meters…

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Client: Hickman Bros (contractors)

Project: SINC at Popley Fields, Basingstoke

Date: May 2007

Size: 6,000m²

As a result of a Protected Species Management Plan, a large area, which was already a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINC) needed to be re-created for Great Crested Newts at…

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Client: Maccaferi Ltd

Project: Nothe Fort, Weymouth

Date: May/June 2005 & April 2006

Size: 1,810m²

The re-profiling of the seaward ramparts of the Napoleonic Fort known as Nothe Fort at the entrance to Weymouth Harbour, Dorset was part of a large refurbishment project commissioned by Weymouth Civic…

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