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The rear garden took this modern minimal approach strongly connected to the house a stage further, and substantial rendered planters were used to create a large sunken courtyard for outside dining and to manage the levels. Pale limestone acted to bring light into the area whilst the white render of the planters linked strongly to the house and provided bold, clean geometry. Steps down to a generous lawn area with a limestone and slate pathway taking the eye to a focal point of a multi-stemmed Eucalyptus tree completed the layout. This is a garden that also has potential for further additions including sculpture and overhead beams from the house.
SOURCING MATERIALS The client already had a quantity of granite paving, sandstone block paving, and granite kerbs, these were used at the front of the property with virtually no wastage. These worked incredibly well with the existing sandstone front wall which was pressure-washed to lighten and clean the stone. For the rest of the hard landscaping to the side
REFERENCES
Designer/Architect Liz Ackerley
Poppyhead Consultancy 43 Claremont Road, Manchester M6 7RJ Tel: 0161 745 7890 Email:
liz@poppyheadconsultancy.com Web:
www.poppyheadconsultancy.com
Main contractor
Paragon Construction Group Limited Paragon House, Ketterer Court, St Helens, Merseyside WA9 3AH Tel: 01744 458 720 Email: enquiries@
paragonconstructiongroup.com Web:
www.paragonconstuctiongroup. com
Granite paving slabs,
sandstone block paving and kerbs Hardscape
Eagley House, Deaking Business Park, Egerton, Bolton,
Greater Manchester BL7 9RP Tel: 0845 260 1748 Email:
enq@hardscape.co.uk Web:
www.hardscape.co.uk
Metal edging Exceledge
Kinley Systems Limited 3 Hayward Way, Hastings, East Sussex TN35 4PL Tel: 01424 201 111 Email:
sales@exceledge.co.uk Web:
www.exceledge.co.uk
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and rear of the property, and connected with the house interior, a light limestone slab and blue slate chippings were sourced from local suppliers. The connection of house and garden was
further reinforced using white rendered planters using the same system as the house render: Wetherby 1.5mm white ‘K’ render system. In order to ensure that clean crisp edges were created between hard and soft scape and between different soft landscaping areas, a metal edging system was used. The narrow access to the rear of the garden meant that a mini Bobcat was the only machinery used with all other processes being completed by hand.
Topsoil, slate chippings and bark chippings
Dandys (Chester) Ltd Fourth Avenue,
Deeside Industrial Park, Deeside,
North Wales CH5 2NR Tel: 01244 280 008 Email:
sales@dandystopsoil.co.uk Web:
www.dandystopsoil.co.uk
Limestone
Travis Perkins Trading Co Ltd Jacksons Street, St Helens,
Merseyside WA9 1AN Tel: 01744 22691 Web:
www.travisperkins.co.uk
Plants
Ostlers Nursery Ltd Merrymans Lane, Great Warford, Alderley Edge, Cheshire SK9 7TN Tel: 01565 872 755
Lighting
Iguzzini Illuminazione UK Suite 19 Europa House, Barcroft Street, Bury BL9 5BT Tel: 0161 447 8846 Email:
info@iguzzini.co.uk Web:
www.iguzzini.co.uk
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POTENTIAL PROBLEMS TO OVERCOME The landscape was considered part of the overall development, therefore conditions provided with the planning approval meant that Poppyhead needed to liaise directly with the planners to discharge landscape-related conditions and obtain approval for front and rear garden designs prior to commencement of construction works on site. In addition, approval was required to remove the two trees to the front of the property, since the original
planning application had implied that the trees – although diseased and
1 Front of previous house on the site.
2 Raised planter on upper terrace of rear garden during construction.
3 Rear garden prior to commencement of works.
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inappropriate – were to be retained. The sandstone wall at the front of the
property was particularly valuable in the context of the conservation area and therefore, any changes including rebuilding of the wall would have necessitated a costly and time-consuming approach. The central entranceway of the driveway was therefore incorporated into the scheme through a 45 degree layout, this accommodated the central entrance within the wall, enabled garage access, and ensured effi cient use of most of the materials already available from another job, limiting wastage. When onsite, there was a need to obtain a few additional square metres of the sandstone modules but these could be readily obtained and mixed within the existing materials so that they were not noticeable in the fi nished scheme. The only issues to contend with within the rear garden were to hide the bins (which are adequately hidden in the area at the side of the house), and manage the levels effectively. The front garden and side pathway were all 0.5m higher than the level of the garden room and a further drop of 0.5m existed between the garden room and the end of the garden. This was easily turned to our advantage, creating a sunken patio area leading from the house and surrounded by raised planters whilst ensuring added privacy from neighbours. Generous steps down to the lawn area from the patio ensure a feeling of space and separation.
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