FPCR’s landscape team has recently contributed to a wide range of successful projects across the UK, supporting developments that balance commercial ambition, placemaking, environmental quality and long-term sustainability.
From strategic residential masterplans and major logistics schemes to rural regeneration and green infrastructure-led developments, these projects demonstrate the breadth of the team’s expertise and the value of integrated landscape design throughout the planning process.
Residential schemes
Recent successes include involvement in several major residential developments, where landscape and green infrastructure have played a central role in shaping high-quality places.
At Newent Road, Highnam, Gloucestershire, reserved matters consent was secured for 95 new homes, with the scheme centred around a landscaped circular walk, public open space and equipped play area. FPCR’s landscape team worked alongside the wider consultant team to help shape a development focused on both community and landscape character.
Over in North Somerset, reserved matters approval was granted for 70 new homes in Congresbury, where landscape proposals helped support the delivery of affordable and private housing, play areas and public open space.
FPCR also contributed to a significant outline application on Ellesmere Road, Shrewsbury, where plans for up to 450 homes and a local centre secured committee approval. The illustrative framework masterplan places strong emphasis on green infrastructure, connectivity and landscape integration.
In South Grantham, one of the Government’s Garden Villages, our landscape team has provided further support for a 3,000-home mixed-use application through the production of a Strategic Design Code, Landscape Masterplan and EIA coordination.
Elsewhere, FPCR provided landscape design input for affordable housing at Newton Leys, Milton Keynes, supporting Taylor Wimpey plc in the delivery of a high-quality residential scheme that responds positively to its setting and wider community context.
The team also played a key role in a major appeal success near Redhill in Surrey, where plans for 166 homes, 41 extra care homes, a 70-bed care home and employment space were approved following a recovered appeal. FPCR’s involvement included landscape and green belt planning support, helping demonstrate the scheme’s contribution to the area’s wider sustainability objectives.
Strategic employment sites
The team has also supported several major commercial and logistics developments.
In Huntingdon, FPCR was instrumental in securing a resolution to grant for a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ industrial and logistics development that will deliver significant employment opportunities alongside publicly accessible green and blue infrastructure, biodiversity net gain, and enhanced pedestrian and cycle connections.
Meanwhile, FPCR provided illustrative masterplan support for the Oxfordshire Strategic Rail Freight Interchange (OxSRFI), a nationally significant infrastructure proposal incorporating a new rail terminal and approximately 6.5 million sq ft of warehousing and distribution space.
Over in Huyton, Merseyside, the practice has supported Studio KMA in securing reserved matters approval for a new logistics warehouse development at John Mason International Ltd. This latest development marks a key milestone in bringing forward a high-quality industrial and logistics scheme, with approval granted for the appearance, layout, landscaping and scale of the proposed development.
In Hull, our landscape team developed landscape strategies and EIA coordination for the recently constructed Amazon fulfilment centre (187,000m²).
Continuing to create places with lasting value
Across all sectors, FPCR’s landscape architects continue to work collaboratively with clients, architects, planners, ecologists and engineers to deliver developments that respond positively to their surroundings and create lasting value for communities.
These recent project milestones reflect the important role landscape plays in shaping sustainable, commercially successful and people-focused developments across the UK.