Laird Bailey Landscape Architects provided comprehensive landscape design and tender-level packages for Bay View (Phase 2) in Northam, working in collaboration with Vistry Homes (incorporating Bovis Homes and Linden Homes). Spanning 370 residential units across four distinct parcels, this extensive coastal development required expert landscape planning to transform original planning strategies into a refined, deliverable master plan.

Laird Bailey Landscape Architects provided comprehensive landscape design and tender-level packages for Bay View (Phase 2) in Northam, working in collaboration with Vistry Homes (incorporating Bovis Homes and Linden Homes). Spanning 370 residential units across four distinct parcels, this extensive coastal development required expert landscape planning to transform original planning strategies into a refined, deliverable master plan.

Our landscape architecture team delivered multi-faceted solutions tailored to the complex site:

• Strategic Landscape Planning: Developed the initial framework into fully detailed tender drawings and comprehensive NBS specifications for soft landscape works across all four housing parcels.
• Play Spaces & Natural Play: Designed dedicated Local Areas of Play (LAP) and an expansive Neighborhood Equipped Area for Play (NEAP). This includes “The Glade”—an informal natural play space using landforms, boulders, and trees alongside a larger historically themed play area rooted in the region’s Anglo-Saxon heritage.
• Sustainable Urban Drainage: Integrated multifunctional environmental engineering, featuring beautifully sculpted attenuation ponds and native swales to support surface water management and climate change adaptation.
• Planting Design & Edible Landscapes: Cultivated biodiversity enhancement through dynamic planting mixes, wildflower meadow restoration, and a traditional community orchard featuring apples, cherries, and plums of local Devonshire provenance.
• Landscape Management: Focused on long-term sustainability by selecting pest and disease resilient species alongside sturdy structural elements like traditional “cock and hen” stone walling to complement the architectural palette.

Bay View, Northam sets a benchmark for large-scale residential development by successfully marrying commercial delivery with sensitive landscape planning. The finished scheme balances private gardens with expansive, interconnected green corridors and wildlife havens, safely preserving historic agricultural boundaries while creating an inspiring, panoramic streetscene for new residents.