The Parks, Bracknell
CSa Input: Project Landscape Architects, Landscape and Visual Assessment chapter of the ES and detailed design of hard and soft works
Date: 2006 to date
Client: Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd/English Partnership
Working closely with scheme architects, CSa formulated a detailed landscape and recreation strategy for this heavily wooded brownfield site. The development, which focuses on a central area of amenity open space, creates a series of distinct, yet interlinked character areas, ranging from wetlands to dry coniferous woodland. The layout has been sensitively designed to allow the vast majority of existing trees to be retained; these are complemented with new street trees. A particular feature of the development is the quality of the public realm which has been carefully designed and detailed to reinforce local identity and distinctiveness.
