Commercial Project List
RETIREMENT & SHELTERED HOUSING SCHEMES
GLEESON HOMES, DAVID WILSON HOMES & BELLWINCH HOMES:
Large scale residential development forming a ‘new village’ in the Surrey green belt at:
- Netherne on the Hill, Surrey
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GLEESON HOMES
- Four Marks, Hampshire: Tree survey & landscape proposals, with badger corridors & orchard associated with a residential development in a green field site, 8 units.
- Calver Mill, Sheffield: Large Mill conversion to residential flats and detached units.
- Rivelin Court, Sheffield: Former King Edward II Hospital, conversion to residential units.
- Hook, Hampshire: Design & implementation of advanced planting for future
residential development.
NUMEROUS NATIONAL AND REGIONAL HOUSE BUILDERS
ELD has undertaken Environmental Impact Assessments; concept design; detailed design; public open space design; play area design; BREEAM rating design; ecological and arboricultural reports and show garden designs for the following clients: Bloor Homes, Bovis Homes, Taylow Wimpey (East Anglia), Persimmon Homes, McCarthy and Stone, Gleeson Homes, David Wilson Homes, Bellwinch Homes, Linden Homes, Henry Boot Homes, Philip Jeans Homes, Silver Homes, David Reed Homes, Richard Hough Developments, Highland Homes, Avidale, Hill Residential, Godfrey and Hicks, Wheatley Homes, Paul Robert Developments, AMA Developments, Jason Frost Developments and Dudley Developments.
Illustrations: To show detailed design for residential show gardens
BIDWELLS PROPERTY CONSULTANTS
- Chippenham Park Estate, Cambridgeshire: Landscape proposals associated with renovation and redevelopment of a listed building located within an historic park.
THE FORCE GROUP
- The Maltings, Newmarket, Suffolk: Concept and detailed landscape design for new residential development near Newmarket town centre to include a roof garden design over a car park.
HIGHLAND HOMES
- The Gables, Newmarket: Tree survey for 256 trees and detailed landscape proposals for a new development, comprising 3no, modern apartment blocks, backing on to the gallops within the Conservation Area, near Newmarket town centre.
RETIREMENT & SHELTERED HOUSING SCHEMES
ENGLISH COURTYARD ASSOCIATION
Ruth Elwood has worked with English Courtyard Association for over a decade during previous employment and has continued to work with them, since setting up ELD, to include the following sites:
| - Phase 2: Dunchurch Hall near Rugby | - Elton near Peterborough |
| - Shottery Hall, Stratford Upon Avon | - Dallington, Northamptonshire |
| - Phase 2: Christ’s Hospital School, Sussex | - Storrington in Sussex |
McCARTHY & STONE
Detailed design and assessment of sites in Essex.
THE MERCERS COMPANY
(THE PREMIER LIVERY Co. OF THE CITY OF LONDON, ROYAL CHARTER, 1394)
- Whittington College, Felbridge, Kent: Detailed tree survey and design of individual courtyards and associated grounds for this large sheltered housing development, named after the trust of Dick Whittington, that historically provided almshouses for the poor.
HEREWARD/SANCTUARY HOUSING
Numerous sheltered housing and extra care schemes in Cambridgeshire & Suffolk.
- Exning Court, Cotton End Road, Newmarket, Suffolk: Extra care scheme.
- Orchard House, Sawston, CAMBS: Sheltered housing scheme.
A NEWMARKET HORSE RACING COMPANY
Godolphin; Existing Racing Stables, Newmarket: Landscape design and restoration of existing landscape & stable yard for an anonymous client in Newmarket.
Godolphin; New Racing Stables, Newmarket: Detailed landscape design associated with a new stable yard, equine swimming pool and accommodation block for 300 horses and 300 grooms, for an anonymous client in Newmarket.
A NEWMARKET STUD MANAGEMENT COMPANY
Darley (DSML); New Stud Developments: Detailed design of landscape schemes for 2no major new stud developments to gain planning approval for change of use from agriculture, to stud land in Newmarket, Suffolk.
Darley (DSML); New Headquarters Building for a Newmarket Stud: Detailed Landscape and Visual Assessment, carried forward to detailed design and on site contract administration for major new Headquarters building, Service Yard and change of use of buildings. This was a £16 million large scale, high specification, major development within the Newmarket area. For reasons of client anonymity and confidentiality pictures of the site are not posted online. Please contact ELD at team@e-l-d.co.uk for further information.
THE BURY SOCIETY
- Former Cattle Market: Acting for The Bury Society in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, ELD successfully raised the profile of the former cattle market leading to the new arc shopping and retail district. ELD persuaded the Council that 40 trees could be incorporated as part of town’s green infrastructure improvements, instead of LPA proposals for only 14 trees. 40 trees have now been planted.
HINCHINGBROOKE HOSPITAL
- The ‘Dreamdrops’ Sensory Garden: The Garden at the Children's Unit, did not fail to impress the Rt. Hon Sir John Major and Dame Norma, who recently unveiled the memorial plaque at the grand opening in 2009, with ELD in attandance. We were commissioned by the St Neots St Mary’s Rotary Club to create a quiet, healing garden, that stimulates the senses, designed around wheelchair users and children with special needs.
ADDENBROOKE’S HOSPITAL
Working with RHP Architects in Cambridge, ELD secured planning approval for an extension to the Oncology Clinic at the Cambridge Hospital.
VILLAGE LIFE/WRENBRIDGE LTD
- Suffolk Business Park, Bury St Edmunds: a large scale, high profile commercial business park development.requiring detailed design to gain planning approval.
STEVEN LAYN
- Saxon Business Park, Littleport, Cambridgeshire: Strategic design to gain planning approval for this large business park.
CASSEL HOTELS
- Felix Hotel, Cambridgeshire: Design and planning for this high profile, 4* hotel on the outskirts of Cambridge City centre.
ST EDMUNDSBURY BOROUGH COUNCIL
- Public Service Village, Bury St Edmunds: Detailed hard and soft landscape design for this new combined site for St Edmundsbury Borough and Suffolk County Council, to include tender and contract administration to completion.
KINGS LYNN & WEST NORFOLK DISTRICT COUNCIL
- Nar Ouse Regeneration Area: ELD was commissioned to produce a detailed design, hard and soft landscape, for a new public park located next to the River Nar, to create leisure space between new residential, commercial and university areas, as part of a major brownfield site restoration project.
EAST CAMBRIDGESHIRE DISTRICT COUNCIL
- Ashley Conservation Area: ELD have been commissioned by the Council to design, project manage, liaise with the Parish Council and oversee works relating to the restoration of the pond and adjacent landscape within this beautiful Suffolk village, near Newmarket.
EAST CAMBRIDGESHIRE DISTRICT COUNCIL
Project Managers for car park & footpath improvement schemes, three churchyard wall restoration schemes & school tree planting exercises.
BUILDBASE
- Coventry, Ipswich, Stowmarket, Milton Keynes, Thetford and Stevenage: Numerous sites across the Midlands and South East requiring a strategic element of landscpae design to gain planning approval for large industrial buildings and storage yard facilities to include tree surveys and Japanese Knotweed eradication.
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JAMES GRAVEN & SONS LTD
- BP Garage, Ely, Cambridgeshire: ELD’s first BP site at Ely has won the
prestigious ‘Best Forecourt’ retail award for the past 2 years. Recent planning approval has been gained for their second site at Littleport.
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BROWN & CO. LAND AGENTS
- Garden Isle Frozen Foods, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire: Tree survey, landscape proposals & planning liaison for a large extension and new factory building linking with an existing potato processing plant.
MALARY ENVIRONMENTAL
Detailed tree survey and landscape design for an existing oil recycling centre and new building/site extension in Cottenham, Cambridgeshire.
DGL SERVICES LTD
- Health and Safety Site, Soham, Cambridgeshire: Extensive landscape & Visual Impact Assessment for proposed Health and Safety Development site on the outskirts of Soham village, to gain planning approval for development of new facilities.
ST CEDD’S, CHELMSFORD
Working with the architects, ELD have undertaken detailed landscape design, arboricultural and ecological surveys, as part of the planning application for the redeveopment of school buildings and outdoor facilities for this leading independent co-educational prep school, located in Chemsford, Essex.
SEWELL PARK COLLEGE, NORWICH
Working with the NPS Group, ELD have undertaken detailed landscape design, arboricultural and ecological surveys as part of the planning application for the redevelopment of the recreation facilities at the College, to include demolition of existing buildings, construction of a new high specification pavilion, extensions to and reinstatement of extensive playing field facilities.
GOSBECKS PRIMARY SCHOOL, ESSEX
Landscape design and arboricultural assessment undertaken as part of the planning application for Essex County Council, for the redevelopment of the school.
ALBANWISE LTD
Provision of detailed proposals to gain planning approval within 7 days for large grain stores and silos, located within rural Norfolk at Barton Bendish and Saxlingham. ELD also provided details to secure Natural England grant funding, to assist with an historic, Victorian walled garden restoration project, at Little Dunham, Norfolk.
DAVID BAKER COPY FARM (BLACKMORE LTD)
Provision of detailed proposals to gain planning approval within 24 hours, for 2no large grain silos, located within a rural village setting, near Bungay in Suffolk.
STOWLANGTOFT ESTATE
Provision of alternative detailed hard and soft landscape designs for an historic stable courtyard on this Suffolk Estate, surrounded by former cart lodges and buildings that have been converted into residential and restaurant usage.
ENVIRON UK LTD
- Patchetts Green Equestrian Centre, Hampshire: Visual impact assessment followed by landfill volume quantification and alternative contour designs for finished levels relating to proposals.
- Sites in Birmingham, West Midlands; Crowborough in Kent; Barking in Essex and Stowmarket in Suffolk: Identification, specification & overseeing removal/
eradication of Japanese Knotweed associated with various developments.
HUTCHINSON PLANNING CONSULTANTS
- Numerous services & projects to include: Several Environmental Impact Assessment reports for large agricultural/industrial units in Cambridgeshire & Bedfordshire, attending planning appeals for applications in Cambridgeshire, tree surveys and detailed landscape proposals for numerous planning applications.
