Team Visit : Garland Park

This week, members of the EDLA Landscape team visited Garland Park, a residential development by Esquire Developments on the former Benenden Hospital site, to review progress and see how the planting design is taking shape.

Alongside Esquire’s Technical Manager Richard Philpott MCIAT, the team reviewed the planting progress, considering how the selected species are establishing and contributing to the character of the development.

The planting strategy has been carefully developed to respond to the local context, combining climate resilience with year-round seasonal interest and value for pollinators. These considerations are central to creating landscapes that are both attractive and ecologically valuable, with planting that can thrive over the long term.

We’ve shared a few of our favourite photographs from the visit below and a couple from a few years ago when we first visited the site when it was a rather eerie abandoned hospital site. We are looking forward to seeing the crescent emerge from the scaffolding!

To find out more about our planting approach at Garland Park, please get in touch with Michael Grimshaw or Kate Astbury.