Goodger Design Associates Practice Brochure We are a forward thinking professional practice of Landscape Who we are What we do Goodger Design Associates started We offer professional design and project Architects and Designers offering the full range of design, technical practicing in September 1999 based management services. Sound business and project management services with particular emphasis on in the historic town of Windsor. planning and financial management landscape design, planning and site assessment. Our proven Our aim is to provide the highest quality service Our practice offers the full range ensure the presence of a competitive Welcome to Introducing of professional services related to and well resourced service responsive expertise rangesfrom urban design for commercial developments, possible for our clients and the wider community landscape architecture, and project to client’s agendas and timescales. town and country parks, transport corridors, healthcare, heritage using professional and sustainable methods management. The practice works with other and educational landscapes. Our services are available worldwide We provide expertise in landscape associated professionals to provide our practice and offer the best value possible to our clients from all sectors. planning, detailing and urban design. services such as building design, Our logo captures the spirit of Sky, Biosphere and We specialise in finding design land remediation, and town planning solutions for transport corridors, so that integrated and successful Earth. We are dedicated to developing sustainable residential, healthcare, commercial initiatives will result. We offer a 01 02 and environmentally sound solutions coupled with 01 02 and educational environments. The responsive service good design strategies. practice draws upon the skills that its for any size of site from a major Please look through our brochure to discover more about our proprietor, Toby Goodger, has gained landscape restoration or infrastructure following over 20 years of professional project to a school playground or services and track record of completed commissions. service with leading private practices private garden development. We also and local authority organisations. facilitate the design and management We are a registered practice of historic gardens and provide of the UK Landscape Institute. advice on identifying the best We employ chartered landscape funding regimes for commercial and architects with experience of large UK community organisations. We provide infrastructure projects such arboricultural and building surveys, as the Greenwich Peninsula landscape Millennium development and the and visual assessments and West London Rail Welcome Initiative are also trained in writing proofs as well as other commercial and of evidence and expert witness community orientated projects. procedures. 01 Al Mughsayl Coastal Study to Enhance Our team members have collected As well as within Great Britain, we Tourist Facilities in the Sultanate of Oman, For the Tourism Ministry of the Sultanate several prestigious awards such as have experience of Oman. the premier award for the Ladbroke in Europe, the Middle East, the Persian 02 Design Proposal for New Canal Basin Grove canal towpath restoration from Gulf, semi arid and tropical African Development in Hailes Quarry Park the Royal Borough of Kensington and environments and offer professional Edinburgh for Edinburgh District Council. Chelsea in services for projects in these regions. 03 Stainless Steel Water Feature and Redesign 1996. Other awards featured We are competent in a range for Private Front Garden in Pinner Middlesex for Mr and innovative projects in hospital of major languages. Mrs Johal. grounds and land restoration 04 Vanilla Bar and Nightclub in Windsor schemes. Our practice won the Berkshire measured building survey for Vanilla Bar and JDA architects. premier award in the 2003 Spelthorne Borough Council environment awards for the enhancements carried out 03 to Orchard Meadow in Sunbury-On- 04 03 Thames. 01 Regents Canal Towpath Enhancement in Regents Park London for British Waterways London and the London Waterways Partnership. 02 Wexham Park Hospital Exercise and Adventure Trail in Wexham Buckinghamshire for Heatherwood and Wexham Park NHS Trust. 03 Beaconsfield Town Hall Green Historical Interpretation Space in Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire for Beaconsfield Town Council. 04 Orchard Meadow Green View to Walled Garden in Lower Sunbury Middlesex for Spelthorne Borough Council and Lower Sunbury Residents Association. 04 01 Typical colourful planting detail for residential development on the Bath Road in Maidenhead. 02 Manor Junior School sketch of Sensory Garden Proposal in Farnborough Hampshire for Hampshire County Council. Summaryof our Selected client list 03 Packet Boat Lane Grand Union Canal Towpath Enhancements in West Drayton Middlesex for British Waterways London. 04 Tredegar Estate Development in Bow 01 London. Design of external works for PRP Architects Ltd including new services Neighbourhood Park Visualisation supplied • Feasibility studies and advice We work on the design and by PRP Architects. on interpretation of historic visualisation of all types of external Private Sector: Public & Aggregate Industries Ltd landscapes. space - large or small, urban or rural, 05 Central Park Greenwich Peninsula London. Allied Coachlines Ltd Community Sector: Project management for and on behalf of • Sketch designs and cost estimates. and with ‘hard’ Basildon District Council WS Atkins and English Partnerships. End user design participation and or ‘soft’ materials. For example: Ardmore Group Ltd Beaconsfield Town Council interaction. • The form, scale and siting of new Audley Planning Associates Ltd Blackwater Valley Countryside developments. • Landscape assessment for policy Beesons Ltd Partnership formulation and plotting of zones • Front and rear private gardens and Berkeley Homes PLC Bracknell Forest Borough Council of visual influence for new building estates. Bonham Design Architects British Waterways London proposals. • The space around schools, Brampton Park Golf Club City of Westminster • Detailed designs, working drawings universities, hospitals and hotels. Bugler Investments Ltd Edinburgh District Council for construction, • Public parks, golf courses, theme Byrne Developments Ltd and planting for external parks and sports facilities. English Partnerships 03 and interior works. Carless and Adams Architects Gosport Borough Council • Childrens’ play areas and sensory 02 • Landscape management and gardens. Crest Nicholson PLC Groundwork Gosport maintenance plans and site David Hall Planning Consultants • Housing areas, industrial Guildford Borough Council inspections. Specification writing 01 Denne Construction using NBS landscape with reference parks andcommercial developments. Hampshire County Council to British/ European standards and • Highways and transport corridors. 03 Euro American Group Dubai Hart District Council legislation. • Town and city squares and European Care Ltd Hatch Ride Primary School • Tree condition surveys to BS pedestrian schemes. Focusband Ltd Hawkedon Primary School 5837(2005), topographical • Large or small urban regeneration Heighway Associates Architects Lee Valley Regional Park and building surveys. schemes. Jayflex Construction Ltd London Borough of Hillingdon • Professional advice and preparation • Forest, tourist or historic landscapes JD Wetherspoon Ltd London’s Waterway Partnership of planning applications and and landscape appraisal or JDA Architects Manor Junior School Farnborough appeals. conservation studies. Mansell Construction Ltd • Bills of quantity to RICS standards Nimrod Centre Nursery Gosport 04 • Reservoirs, power stations, Marina Developments Ltd and project financial management extractive industry applications or Radstock Primary School 05 with outline and detailed project major industrial projects. Mitre Investments Ltd Royal Parks Agency costings. PRP Architects Ltd • Environmental assessment, Runnymede Borough Council 02 • Procurement of contractors, planning advice and land Purley Chase Golf Club Rushmoor Borough Council quality plants, hard materials and management proposals. 04 01 Gerrards Cross Railway Station Landscape R3 Architects Ltd South Bucks District Council inspection of works on site to Enhancement in Gerrards Cross RBA Architects Ltd completion. Buckinghamshire for Chiltern Railways. Spelthorne Borough Council Rockley Dene Homes Ltd • Quality graphics and displays with 02 Pound Mill Townscape Enhancement along St Crispins Junior School Wraysbury Road in Staines Middlesex for Stockley Park Golf Club digital ‘walk through’ presentations Spelthorne Borough Council. St Johns Church School Gosport Stonecheck PLC of proposed and existing 03 Purley Chase Golf Course Leisure Surrey County Council landscapes. Development Proposed Scheme in Vanilla Bar Windsor Nuneaton Warwickshire for Bugler Surrey Heath Borough Council • n Advice o the securing of grants for Investments Ltd. Warden Housing Group Tourist Ministry of the funding projects or organisations. 04 Milton Road New Nursing Home and Westbury Homes Group PLC Government of Oman Formulation of heritage lottery and Residential Development Proposed Scheme in the City of Cambridge for Rockley Dene Windsor and Eton FC Wokingham Borough Council other funding applications. Homes Ltd. Wood Hill Securities Woodley Town Council WS Atkins PLC 01 Project Profile: Project Profile: Orchard Meadow Beaconsfield Town Hall Green Sunbury-On-Thames Middlesex
Client: Spelthorne Borough Council with Lower Sunbury Residents Client: Beaconsfield Town Council Association Approximate Value: £51,500 Approximate Overall Value: £185,000 Services provided: Site Investigation/Landscape Design/ Landscape Services provided: Site Investigation/Landscape Design/ Landscape Specification/ Quantity Surveying/Planning Supervisor/Contract Specification/ Quantity Surveying/Planning Supervisor/Contract Administration/Clerk of Works/ Public Consultation/Specialist artist’s 01 Administration/Clerk of Works/ Public Consultation and Signage commissioning 03 03 Landscape Contractor: Wyevale Landscapes Landscape Contractor: Geoff Alsford Landscape and Engineering Ltd We were appointed to act on a community participation exercise and drew up The Town Hall Green is located in the heart of Beaconsfield New Town next to detailed designs and specifications to create a new village green on a previously the railway station. We were commissioned by the town council to redesign the inaccessible and derelict area in the town centre of Sunbury-On-Thames. The Town Hall Green and to project manage the construction and planting works to establishment of Orchard Meadow as a new public park was the final jigsaw in an completion. effort to link Sunbury Park and Sunbury Walled Garden with Sunbury’s town centre We selected a theme of celebrating the rich links that the town has with its thoroughfares of Thames Street and the Avenue. literary past, fine metalwork details evident in the Old Town and historic modes The new meadow areas are now established for the enjoyment of the local of transport. We designed a clay cobbled seating area with an Armillary sundial residentswho hold a community festival here each year. Features include decorative as a focus. We also designed the wrought ironwork displays arrayed around the metalwork with a new access gate to seating area. Famous people remembered included GK Chesterton and Enid the nearby walled garden, the planting of a mature avenue of Lime and Cherry Blyton. The displays also celebrate the 700 year town street fair, trees and the redesign of the access car park that also serves Sunbury Park. Orchard a 1600 wall painting of a Lute player, a coach and horses, the Meadow is celebrated in a Millennium 02 local railway and Bekonscot model village. We commissioned 02 tapestry housed in the adjacent walled garden. The area’s history is further the artist, Steffi Goddard, to paint the laser cut images of the lute player and 04 04 celebrated in a rope sculpture that we designed attached to the Noddy characters. The green is richly planted with an array of new trees, the iron archway access to the meadow from Old Rope Walk. shrubs and bulbs making it much lusher and welcoming than before. Shoppers Thequality of the completed Orchard Meadow project was recognized when our take advantage of attractive new seats designed in keeping with the original practice was presented with the 2003 Spelthorne Environment Award by the Mayor Edwardian concept. of Spelthorne during a ceremony at the Spelthorne Civic Centre in October 2003. The project’s success was recorded extensively in the local press. The town hall green is now enjoyed as a backdrop for numerous weddings, the annual Christmas festivalof lights and the Summer Beaconsfield awareness day. It is also enjoyed every day by the inhabitants of Beaconsfield as an attractive seating and relaxation area.
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06 07 06 01 Orchard Meadow looking towards the steel archway at the pedestrian entrance from Old Rope Walk in the direction of the walled garden. 01 View of seating area with wrought iron trellis panels and bronze armillary sundial as focal point. Local residents and shoppers are enjoying the new space. 02 Orchard Meadow looking south towards Thames Street after enhancement work showing wildflower meadows, the central open space and mature trees. 02 View looking south of newly planted green with armillary sundial and trellis panel dedicated to the 700 year old Beaconsfield street fair in the distance. 03 View looking east along new Lime Avenue away from Walled Garden after completion of new access to walled garden. 03 Project designer, Toby Goodger, with artist Steffi Goddard, who painted the laser cut images, in front of the trellis panel dedicated to Enid Blyton’s 04 View of New Walled Garden Gates towards Orchard Meadow in 2006. Noddy characters. 05 View looking south towards Thames Street of Semi Mature Cherry Tree as focal point in meadow 04 The laser cut image of the mediaeval Lute player discovered behind a plaster wall in Old and welcoming space at car park entrance. Beaconsfield reproduced here in a trellis panel framed by climbing plants. 06 Orchard Meadow Spelthorne Borough Council Design Award Certificate presented by the Mayor 05 The projects’ contractor laying the four leaf clover design in the cobbled seating area during of Spelthorne. construction. We project managed all the construction & planting works. 07 Orchard Meadow Layout Plan showing context with Thames Street, Sunbury Park, Walled 06 The Mayor of Beaconsfield opening the enhanced space at a celebration event with local Garden and new car park with access points indicated. dignitaries, councillors, residents, project designers and contractors. Contact details
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