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Great Bossingham Farm, Kent
“the planting is largely native, taking direct influence from farms and farmsteads, with the use of informal natural planting, garden walls and hedgerows used to create an appropriate visual character.”
To devise and implement a comprehensive hard and soft landscaping scheme for five new dwellings and a workshop across one hectare of land in the village of Great Bossingham. Designed by Taylor Hare Architects and working alongside the contractor Barwick Properties. The project includes private gardens alongside a communal farmstead courtyard an orchard and meadows. In line with Taylor Hare Architects landscape strategy the planting is largely native, taking direct influence from farms and farmsteads, with the use of informal natural planting, garden walls and hedgerows used to create an appropriate visual character. The landscaping plays a central role in the farmstead character, and is inspired by the unattended areas of historic farms, where wildflowers and shrubs often proliferate and provide habitat for insects and small mammals.
The informal planting design will provide privacy and denote boundaries where necessary, and become gradually more varied where delineation is not required. Increased planting along the site boundaries is intended to create wildlife corridors around the site, increasing useable habitat for local wildlife and helping to shield the existing and proposed buildings from the AONB. Whilst the relatively formal courtyard arrangement directly references the historic Kent farmstead, with unattended edges of which would typically feature wildflower boundaries and sprawling shrubs. The landscaping proposal seeks to play on this informal and wild nature, contrasting to, and softening the orthogonal layout.
*Planting to be sustainable where possible.