ELD Secures Planning Success for Another Challenging Site...

A development site near Newmarket, previously refused planning permission and taken to appeal has recently secured Planning Permission, for five new detached family homes, in the village of Cheveley, for Patrick B. Doyle Ltd.

 

Suffolk based Chartered Landscape Architect’s, Elwood Landscape Design and Cambridge based Architects, Barber Casanovas Ruffles led the design team to secure the permission, with the support of Beacon Planning Ltd, G H Bullard Associates and Hayden’s Arboricultural Consultancy.   The site was extremely challenging; located on the edge of a picturesque village within a Conservation Area and next to a Listed Building, with individual Tree Preservation Orders (TPO) placed across mature trees within and adjacent to the site.  

 

Photo: View looking across the development area, located within a mature landscape setting.

The impact of development on existing trees became the main constraint to gaining permission, but the professionalism and diligence of ELD’s Director, Ruth Elwood, eventually gained the confidence of Council Tree Officers and secured the final approval. It was agreed with Officers that the loss of a single mature horse chestnut tree was more than compensated by the high specification landscape design, with strategic tree planting that would replace and enhance the development for the long term future. 

   'We are thrilled to have been given a brief for mature planting, by PB Doyle, where the new landscape will provide instant         scale and a unique character to this new development’, said Ruth.

  

The five units will boast an attractive, yet sensitive building design and landscape setting, with large gardens and new semi mature planting.  Patrick B Doyle has started the construction work, with completion due towards the end of 2010 - all five houses are currently on sale and enquiries can be made at PB Doyle on 01638 720797.