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Stowe School ‘Headmasters garden’ progress

Back in November the design team at C&M helped plant bulbs and shrubs at Stowe School as part of the restoration of the ‘Headmasters Garden’ originally designed by Brenda Colvin in 1922. Today, the team are back on site planting 587 perennials and 168 Betterbuxus plants for READ MORE
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Our 21st Century vision for Highgate Cemetery

Highgate Cemetery is a complex site which serves many and sometimes conflicting audiences.  We believe the cemetery needs an assured masterplan defining a shared vision of realistic and long-term delivery. Such an assured vision can reverse the current slow erosion of landscape READ MORE
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Albion Lodge set to expand.

Albion Lodge is a retirement home run owned by the Darwent family. The acquisition of a neighbouring property gave rise to a fantastic opportunity for expanding the home’s facilities. Colvin & Moggridge Director Mark Darwent is in charge of the planning application READ MORE
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New coastal house provides opportunity for ecological enhancement.

The 2018 World Cup is fast approaching, with national sides making their final preparations ahead of this summer’s tournament. We now know the groups after December’s draw. England have been put together with Belgium, Tunisia and Panama in Group G. Gareth READ MORE
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The official private opening of Old Alresford House Gardens.

June the 14th marked an important day for our long standing clients Mike Hall and Shuna MacKillop of Old Alresford House in Hampshire. The creation and restoration of their Grade II listed park and gardens, which we’d worked on together for 8 years, was complete. The house was READ MORE
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Visitor centre masterplan for Stowe landscape gardens.

Our landscape masterplan for the restoration of the New Inn at Stowe, the National Trust’s newly opened visitor entrance to this unique 18th-century landscape garden, combines exacting parking provision for over 400 vehicles within a former quarry, with detailed design of READ MORE
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Brenda Colvin – A Career in Landscape by Trish Gibson.

Brenda Colvin was not a self-publicist.  She was more interested in doing great work and, as founder member and president of the Landscape Institute, fighting to ensure that landscape architects be involved from the very start – not called in as ‘exterior decorators’ after READ MORE
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