Landscape Architecture Planning
Client: Private Residential
Build Arch: Downey Planning & Architecture
Landscape Arch: Peter Donegan Garden Design
Peter Donegan MSGLD MAPL
Design Assistant: Elif Öztürk
Detail:
Grade 2 listed building. Built 1850.
The trick (is that the right word to use ?) in planning applications post building architecture decisions and in obtaining planning is in short, that what one might “believe” should or would look nice is not so much, at this juncture, a consideration.
The reality is more of sight lines, safety, neighbouring boundary planting, what best assimilates your intended build planned best into the landscape and, showing that.
In all my time designing for planning or their applications, I’ve not ever had a difficult journey. From France at Historial de la Grande Guerre – Musées de Péronne & Thiepval and a 13th C château where I met the many departmentals “to change forever the face of the towns emblem” and where bodies still lay; where a sympathy to the intended landscape, yet logic to a process where, others require an understanding into what the future holds for that place or space.
The reality is of buildings and their landscape, their history, the stories and the of nature design surrounding it will vary and differ always. My job (if I might call it that ?) is to understand that and translate to others via drawings your wish or dream.
Of not clients, some tell me they have found the process of planning to be challenging or arduous, though I personally haven’t met that.
Maybe it’s because I separate logic from emotion or the equations that make daydreams, as part of what I do, on your behalf. Or know how to give a council what they actually require and want to see what landscape you intend to edit. That in Ireland I’ve designed 17th and 18th century estates helps a little in this case.
Or maybe, it’s because ultimately, when you are on any journey with the best (people) by your side including a top class build architect and client, things just never seem in any way complex and unknowns work I guess never really feels as such.