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Welcome to Martina Zachornacka

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 17:06:35 GMT

We welcome Martina Zachornacka to our team. Martina is a landscape architecture graduate from Greenwich University and has been supporting our projects by providing excellent graphics for our Holy Trinity Church Project in Windsor as well as for the Yew Tree Pub and residential development in the Chilterns Hills, designs for private gardens and for arboricultural surveys. An example of her work is attached below for Holy Trinity Church in Windsor Town Centre.

Planning Permission for Holy Trinity Garrison Church in Windsor Update

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:14:00 GMT

Finally the planning application for the community and memorial gardens that we prepared for the Holy Trinity Garrison Church in Windsor has been registered and is online on the RB Windsor and Maidenhead website with the planning reference number 19/00638. Please add messages of support if you can. General Arrangement Plan and Elevations attached.

New updated website now online!

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:23:00 GMT

New updated website now on line! Check it out at www.gda-design.com

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Holy Trinity Garrison and Parish Church Windsor-New Memorial Gardens

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 09:58:00 GMT

We have been developing a major project for the Holy Trinity Garrison and Parish Church in the town centre of Windsor recently. Our design includes a memorial garden to the soldiers from the Queen's Household Division lost in recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The design has been well received by the local press and residents alike. Please enjoy this 3 D visualisation for the new church gardens and external landscape design.

Welcome to Raivo Pauls Landscape Architect

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 08:19:00 GMT

Welcome to Raivo Pauls from Riga in Latvia who is working for Goodger Design Associates for a trial period on several projects including the Holy Trinity Garrison Church Project in Windsor.

Progress at Englefield Green House New Entertainmants Area

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 14:42:00 GMT

Contract works are progressing well at the Englefield Green House Rear Garden Entertainments Area and an old Victorian well was uncovered during the construction works!

Reading Civic Centre Demolition Landscape Masterplan

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 11:16:00 GMT

We are currently working on the redevelopment of the Reading Civic centre site and planning applications have been submitted for new railing details for the upper level podium and we have produce a masterplan design for the temporary public realm for the demolished site adjacent to the Hexagon theatre. Here are some images below of this scheme that is now being considered by Reading Borough Council:

New Entertainments Area in Englefield Green Garden

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:54:00 GMT

We have been working on the design of a new entertainments area in a large rear garden in Englefield Green near Windsor Great Park for a family. Here are some of the images of the new design that is being implemented now

Warfield Park QTRA tree Safety Survey Completed

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:11:00 GMT

We have just completed a safety survey of 2,440 trees throughout the Warfield Park settlement close to Ascot and Bracknell. We were asked to survey the trees by the park management to assess their condition and to proscribe recommended treeworks and long term management as well as obtaining their root protection areas. We were assisted by the many park residents and the management staff in this survey work. The survey schedules and plans will provide the basis for a long term management plan and for the development of new low impact building projects within the park area that lies over several hectares of land. We have shown some images below of the park and some typical trees:

Poyle Industrial Estate Development

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 11:59:00 GMT

We have been working on a landscape plan for a large industrial project at the Poyle Estate near Heathrow airport recently and it is currently going through the planning process. Here are few images of riverside treatments that we have proposed:

Completion of New Athletics Centre and Tree Planting at St Marys School, Ascot

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 11:53:00 GMT

We are pleased to have been involved in the design and implementation of the recently completed athletics centre and all weather tennis courts at St Marys independent catholic girls school in Ascot, Berkshire. They were officially opened by Denise Lewis the famous track athlete. We completed the initial arboricultural survey and landscape analysis in 2011. We then designed the tree and hedgerow planting around the site. The site is sensitive as it is close to residential areas and attracted several comments during the planning application stage. The planting employs large semi mature trees to provide instant visual screening form the floodlights and other structures as well as providing an attractive setting for the sports activities. Below are a selection of images from the completed site.

Welcome to Claudia Funtaro

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 14:26:00 GMT

....We welcomed Claudia Funtaro to our team as an assistant landscape architect in October 2013. Claudia has been producing 3D visualisations for our clients past and present and has been supporting a range of landscape and arboricultural assessments that we have completed in the last three months. Below is one of the visualisations that we have produced.

Nice Message of Appreciation Received from Head Teacher at Victoria Park Nursery School Newbury regarding our work on the Outdoor Learning Garden

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 10:39:00 GMT

Victoria Park Nursery School,Newbury Outdoor learning Space/Garden Officially opened

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 15:09:00 GMT

We were pleased to attend the official opening on 27 June of the Outdoor Learning Area by the Mayor of Newbury that we designed for Newbury's Victoria Park Nursery school and children's centre. Please visit the following link for details: http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/2013/victoria-park-nursery-unveils-outside-learning-centreThe head teacher, Fiona Wilkinson, said that the school and the children are very pleased with the design and the construction of the outdoor learning area into several learning zones with various items of play equipment that provide both physical and mental challenges. Some additional images of the play areas are attached below: www.facebook.co.uk/goodgerdesignassociateshttps://www.facebook.com/GoodgerDesignAssociates

Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Design Review Panel Meeting

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:12:00 GMT

Interesting RB Windsor and Maidenhead design review panel presentation yesterday at the town hall to review Maidenhead Waterways scheme and proposed residential and retail developments in the town centre. Seemed like the scale of the building proposed were over the top and the public realm needed to be given better emphasis. Also saw a totally inappropriate art deco building design presented by a duo who reminded us of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sympathetic to that era.

Vauxhall The Missing link RIBA Competiton

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 21:07:00 GMT

Taking a special interest in the results of this Competition. Watch this space.

Building Design Christmas Party

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:48:00 GMT

Trip up to London yesterday to attend the Building Design Tweet up Christmas party at Feilden Clegg architects office off Tottenham Court Road. Took the opportunity to visit the fantastic Trafalgar Square with the Christmas tree from Norway and fountains lit up with colourful LED lighting. Also enjoyed choir singing Christmas hits under the tree for a deaf children's charity. Enjoy images below. BD party was great fun and made many new friends and contacts there. My friend and associate Adrian won a fabulous book on the creation of Queen Elizabeth park by the Olympic stadium.

Birch Green Staines-Upon-Thames, Enhamcements nearly Complete

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:31:00 GMT

We have been working on a masterplan for the improvement of Birch Green for nearly three years. Birch Green is an important green space and common land in the centre of Staines and we are aiming to integrate it successfully within the urban fabric of the town. Folowing a public consutlation last year we managed a contract to implement enhancements within a first phase funded by planning gain funding. The first phase is now nearing completion as the images below indicate.

Finchampstead Allotments Opening Ceremony

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:57:00 GMT

Today, 13th October, the opening ceremony took place of the new Finchampstead Allotments off Longwater Road, Finchampstead, Berkshire, England watched by a crowd of around 60 people. There was a competition for the best scarecrow which was won by a robot scarecrow. Goodger Design Associates designed the new allotments site and project managed the work to its successful completion. See images below of the opening event.

Visit of Landscape Students From Finland

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:12:00 GMT

We were delighted to host a visit by two Finnish landscape students Niina Christensen and Erja Mikkonen to our office and to make a site visit to view the Finchampstead new allotments site on 10th September. We were joined by the clerk of Finchampstead Parish Council, Kate Dagnall, our marketing manager, Karen Goodger and our friend and associate, Adrian Draffin for a working lunch at the delightful Greyhound Inn near the allotments site.

Finchampstead New Allotments Site Now Open

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:57:00 GMT

We have been working very hard most of the year designing and project managing the creation of a new 2 hectare allotments site for local residents in the Finchampstead/Eversley area for and on behalf of Finchampostead Parish Council. Nearly 60 new plots have been created served by graveled access roads and four water points. Several old and unsafe Poplar trees needed to be felled for public safety and to increare the amount of natural sunlight to the allotment plots. A new bridge constructed with railway sleepers was constrcuted to unite the north and south parts of the site. Some images are shown below. The plots are protected with rabbit and deer deterrent fences.There will be a grand offical opening on 13th October 2012 after which we will publish further details.

Abbotswood Residential Development Beaconsfield Completed

toby@gda-design.com (Toby Goodger) — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:38:00 GMT

Abbotswood, Gregories Road, Beaconsfield, up market development of luxury apartments in landscaped grounds now completed. Tree and shrub planting is maturing quickly with wildflower turf incorporated into final design. Design features attractive pergola, gazebo, attractive Blanc de Bierge paving and wrought iron hooped railings with brick pillars.