Interested parties:
Wildflower Turf Ltd, Greener Places, Croda International.
The brief:
Croda International create, make and sell speciality chemicals and are the name behind the high-performance ingredients and technologies in some of the biggest and most successful brands in the world. Croda’s…
Client:
Lancashire County Council & Wyre Council
Contractors:
Balfour Beatty
Project:
Rossall Coastal Defence Scheme, Fylde Coastline, Lancashire
Date:
July 2016 – May 2018
Size:
28,000m²
Following four years of construction the Rossall Coastal Defence Scheme was officially opened on the 1st June 2018. The two-kilometre sea defence wall…
Client:
Telford Homes
Landscape Architect:
Standerwick Land Design
Contractors:
Skidmores of Hertford
Consulting Ecologist:
Henriette Westergaard
Project:
Caledonian Road Development, Islington, London
Date:
April & May 2018
Size:
2,768m²
The Caledonian Road development in Islington, London is the site of 156 new apartments by Telford Homes, built on a narrow strip of land…
Client:
Costain Skanska JV
Landscape Architect:
Turney Landscapes Ltd
Project:
Crossrail Exit Shaft Head, Limmo Peninsula, London
Date:
March & April 2018
Size:
2,600m²
Set to open in December 2018, London’s ambitious Crossrail project promises to deliver a high frequency, high capacity service to make travelling in the capital…
Landscape Contractors:
Cormac
Project:
Green Infrastructure for Growth (Cornwall)
Date:
March 2018 to date
Size:
7,700m² to date
Alongside incumbent contractors Cormac, Wildflower Turf Ltd have recently assisted Cornwall Council to deliver part of the council’s Green Infrastructure for Growth (GI4G) project.
The far-reaching GI4G programme will see…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…