Welcome to our gardens
21 May 2020
To create a virtual Chelsea Flower shower during lockdown and highlight the importance of open spaces for mental health, our team created a series of videos welcoming people into their own gardens.
Planning Approval for major landscape scheme
05 May 2020
Planning approval has been granted for the first phase of landscape at Cambourne West for our clients Taylor Wimpey and Vistry. This 30ha scheme includes: lakes, ornamental ponds, naturalistic wetlands, formal parkland, new woodlands, greenways and roadside planting to provide a stunning setting for the first phase of 969 new homes.
Lock-down but spirits up!
09 April 2020
Working from home doesn't stop team RT from staying connected and having some fun. Friday after-work drinks continue, but in a virtual bar... and this week its Tiger King theme!
Appeal win in Cheshire East
03 April 2020
Randall Thorp provided landscape expert witness services for a mixed use employment park on the outskirts of Alsager. Subtle changes to the original scheme, enabled it to be robustly defended at appeal, demonstrating the added value good landscape consultants can bring to a project.
CGI visualisations help Taylor Wimpey sell their vision
20 March 2020
Taylor Wimpey and Homes England required a series of visualisations for their flagship new development The Lanes at Penwortham. Randall Thorp were able to combine our detailed knowledge of landscape and planting, the layouts provided by the clients and our artistic flair to create images that were realistic and also captured the vision and character of the scheme.
Covid time
16 March 2020
Our team has successfully transitioned to the new norm of working from home and video meetings. #stayathome #protecttheNHS #savelives
Planning approval in Ashton-under-Lyne
17 February 2020
Our client Taylor Wimpey has secured approval for their 295 home scheme on a brown field site at Ashton-under-Lyne. Landscape design and CGI visuals by Randall Thorp.
Leeds University lecture
06 February 2020
Randall Thorp has always been passionate about maintaining links with education. Today Dick continued his Masterplanning Masterclass tour with a presentation to final year students at Leeds Becket University. "The best lecture we've ever had!"
Magazine feature
04 February 2020
Taylor Wimpey in-house magazine featured a double page spread on Cambourne, the award winning new settlement in Cambridgeshire that Randall Thorp have been masterplan consultant for since 1998 and landscape consultant since 1989! We hope our work here will inspire the new wave of garden villages and garden suburbs now being planned throughout the UK.