New Homes August - September 2017 Wales and the South West


OUTDOOR GALLERY AT NEWPORT HOUSING DEVELOPMENT SHOWCASES STUDENTS’ NATURE-THEMED DESIGNS


Student artists from Coleg Gwent’s City of Newport Campus are displaying their bold and colourful designs


in a specially created outdoor ‘gallery


space’ at Newport’s Loftus Garden Village housing development.


The art and design students have produced a series of nature-themed artworks for a project inspired by affordable housing provider Pobl Group’s brand- new community. Their large-scale murals, created following a special visit to the garden village, are now on show on the construction hoardings at the site. Pobl joined forces with local housing developer


Lovell, which is building the new housing, to invite students to Loftus Garden Village and help them find about the environmental ethos behind the scheme which has brought the countryside into the heart of Newport. Set to feature a total of 250 homes when complete, the modern garden village incorporates an abundance of green space, tree-lined streets, kitchen gardens and a central pond. All planting and landscaping has been carefully designed to encourage biodiversity, with habitats for birds and other wildlife.


Lovell community coordinator Bernadette Vickery


says: “The students’ work fully reflects the development’s focus on the natural world. They’ve produced some amazingly vivid designs which are bursting with life and brilliantly capture the vibrancy of the garden village and its transformation of the natural environment. This is the latest in a series of community projects we’ve organised with Coleg Gwent and we’re delighted that the relationship continues to be so productive.”


Lovell is currently working on the fourth phase of the Loftus Garden Village development with the overall scheme set for completion in 2018.


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