St Anne’s Square, Bury St Edmunds
James Blake Associates undertook the hard and soft landscape design, tender process, and contract administration of St Anne's Square, Bury St Edmunds. The JBA landscape team created separate garden rooms using ornamental shrub and herbaceous planting to define spaces and add all year round interest. Particular emphasis was given to…
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Tayfen Meadows
Tayfen Meadows, (previously a caravan site and derelict greyhound track), was designed as a comprehensive development of 170 houses, including significant areas of public open space. The residential area is formed by a permeable network of roads and footpaths with each dividing perimeter blocks of houses defining and enclosing the…
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Premier Inn, Aviemore
JBA was commissioned to support a new planning application on a site with outline consent for a travel lodge, following Cairngorms National Park Authority’s objections to the new building and its impact on trees. This site is a triangular plot at the southern end of Aviemore which used to house…
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Flakt Woods
Flakt Woods was the name of this former industrial site, which became a major development site for 750 new homes and associated open spaces. The play area had a number of key constraints - a steep slope, closely overlooked space, poor drainage, and all dovetailing with the work of an…
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Coe’s Meadow
Coe's Meadow was a charity funded green space. A proactive Parish Council ensured the funding and a clear brief for this rural village green setting. The character of this lovely space is informal. The facilities were conceived very much in a country park tradition with water bound paved paths, rustic…
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Tesco, Tiptree
When one thinks of retail car parks, you might think of boring planting in green dominated mixes of small leaved ground cover plants. We wanted to break that mould by adding colour, contrast and interest. The planting is strikingly different and has proven to be highly successful. It has also…
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Nuffield Hospital, Bury St Edmunds
James Blake Associates was appointed to provide a scheme for environmental improvements to the extension of Nuffield Hospital, Bury St. Edmunds, including a fire pond. The size of the pond was determined by the volume of water needed in case of a fire. The brief was to design an attractive…
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Queen Mary and Westfield College
Queen Mary and Westfield College advertised a competition brief to redesign the entrance to the college. The existing entrance was badly designed and did not reflect the contemporary fresh character of the College buildings. James Blake Associates approached the design with a simple concept that would unify and link the…
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Whitbread – various locations
James Blake Associates provide Landscape Architecture, Ecological and Arboricultural consultancy services to Whitbread plc. The group includes Premier Travel Inn, Brewers Fayre, Beefeater and Table Table brands. James Blake Associates has completed landscape schemes for in excess of 50 individual sites. The majority have been for build schemes or improvements…
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