Commissions: Hertitage Landscapes

Riverside Parks, Maidenhead, Berkshire

(For Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead)

We were commissioned by Windsor & Maidenhead council to produce a masterplan for parks & open spaces on Maidenhead Riverside, including Ray Mill Island, Bridge Gardens, Reitlinger Open Space & Guards Club Park. An important consideration in the design was to allow each open space to retain its individual identity. It was also essential to maintain some continuity & linkage between the riverside open spaces.

The project focuses mainly on soft landscape improvements & enhancing the existing landscape with new features including a wildflower meadow, improved paths & routes through the parks, & restoring historical focal points such as the original Edwardian landing stages & the stone water trough as a working fountain.

Orchard Meadow Sunbury-On-Thames, Middlesex
(For Spelthorne Borough Council with Lower Sunbury Residents Association)

We were appointed to act on a community participation exercise & drew up detailed designs & specifications to create a new village green on a previously inaccessible & derelict area in the town centre of Sunbury-On-Thames. The establishment of Orchard Meadow as a new public park as the final jigsaw in an effort to link Sunbury Park & Sunbury Walled Garden with Sunbury’s town centre thoroughfares of Thames Street & the Avenue. The new meadow areas were established for the enjoyment of the local residents who hold a community festival on the central events space each year. Features include decorative metalwork with a new access gate to the nearby walled garden, the planting of a mature avenue of Lime & Cherry trees & the redesign of the access car park that also serves Sunbury Park nearby.