World Landscape Architecture Month

For World Landscape Architecture Month, we’re looking back through our archives to show you some of our work through the years. First up is Whitehill and Bordon, for Whitehill & Bordon Regeneration Company. Following over 100 years as a garrison town, the Army left in December 2015 to move to a new base, freeing up over 100 hectares and presenting a unique, once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the town into green, healthy and connected town.

Our work with the masterplanners, architects, ecologists and developers has been focused around the creation, design and delivery of the green spaces that weave the new town together, and ensuring new development is sensitive to extensive woodland and trees, with all parties committed to building an #environmentally sustainable town. Through the Healthy New Towns programme, plans are continually reviewed to further enhance the built environment to make it easier to live healthy, active, and independent lives.

Around 150 hectares of green space is protected and enhanced, including the provision of two suitable alternative natural greenspaces (SANGs) at Bordon Inclosure and Hogmoor Inclosure. The Hogmoor Inclosure shown in the images is the third largest SANG in the UK at 54 hectares (equivalent to 70 football pitches), comprising woodland and heathland available for the community to use for enhanced recreation for walking, play, picnics, wildlife spotting, to sit and relax, and be involved in a whole range of events and activities. It is undergoing work to ensure it is accessible to people with mental health problems and physical disabilities and encourage residents, particularly families, to be more active.