Confidential Site, Southend, UK

This landscape planning effort required a very site-based approach to situating a residential expansion north of Southend which effectively redrew its green belt boundary. The site planning to create a new settlement for 2000 houses with associated community facilities and schools was based around an armature of landscape elements -swales; streams; hedgerows; woodlands and copses; fields- which gave orientation and character to the various housing offers; whilst at the same time making the site permeable and sustainable.