Building Over Car Park
The car park at Over was developed from a piece of waste ground at the front of the site. Overgrown with brambles and sloping towards the river, it did not present itself as a likely choice. However, with with some professional landscaping skills the slope became a large dish with banks all around. The banks make an excellent screen from the road and nearby houses, and the layout allows for nearly 30 cars.

 

Again, recycling old materials came into play:

• The bays and beds for shrubs are edged with old concrete sleepers.
• The car park surface is old road planings rolled flat.
• Retaining walls are built from stone dug out of the banks.
• Large nursery trees about to be thrown out were given a new home around the car park.

The banks were then grassed and planted with many young whips of native trees to complete the landscaping.

 

At night the trees are uplit to show off their form.