Areas of Practice

Residential Developments

Landscape design for housebuilders and residential developers, from site appraisal to handover. We are brought in at masterplan stage, when decisions about water, trees and shared space still cost nothing to change.

Who we work with

Housebuilders bringing forward residential schemes
Developers working on apartments, mixed-use and phased sites
Architects and planning consultants who need landscape input
Landowners assessing what a site can carry

Service by stage

Feasibility and site appraisal

Before the layout is fixed, we test what the site will allow.

Landscape and site appraisal, including soils, drainage, trees and existing habitat
Constraints and opportunity plan for the design team
Landscape input to capacity, layout and density options

Pre-planning and design development

A landscape strategy that holds up in the drawings and in the submission.

Landscape masterplan and green infrastructure strategy
Design of streets, courtyards, play space and communal landscape
Surface water, planting and establishment strategy

Planning submission

The landscape evidence a planning authority will read.

Landscape design statement for the application
Landscape and visual impact input where the scheme requires it
Planting and habitat plans, plus responses to landscape conditions

Construction and handover

Drawings a contractor can build and a management company can maintain.

Detailed landscape drawings and specification
Planting schedules and an establishment programme
Maintenance schedules and a handover pack

What you receive

Landscape masterplanGreen infrastructure strategySurface water and drainage designPlanting and habitat plansHard landscape specificationLandscape design statementLandscape and visual impact inputEstablishment and maintenance schedules

Working with your team

We work alongside your architect, engineer, ecologist and planning consultant, and we are used to joining a design team early enough to be useful rather than arriving with a finished layout to decorate. Fees are set by stage, so you can appoint us for the appraisal alone, through planning, or to completion.

Statutory assessment and reporting requirements differ between schemes and jurisdictions. We confirm what each site actually needs with your planning consultant rather than assuming a standard list applies everywhere.

Concept work

The development work published in our Design Studies is concept work. These studies test how a site could absorb water, hold planting and share space before a layout is fixed, and they are not records of completed schemes. Client commissions are published only with permission.

View Design Studies

Have a site in mind?

Send us the location, the scale and where you are in the process. If landscape input is still optional on the scheme, that is exactly when to call.

Discuss a development