Node’s landscape design for Holliday Street apartments embraces outdoor living

The team is excited to share details of a residential landscape design we have worked on in Birmingham city centre, which has recently been submitted for planning approval.

We were commissioned by Raybone Developments (Mint) Ltd / City Being, to work alongside Gensler Architects to create a high-quality landscape scheme for a development of 109 homes on Holliday Street.

The pandemic has reinforced the paramount importance of easy, every day access to external space and the inherent benefits of contact with nature for mental and physical health. Our vision for Holliday Street was to respond to this through defining a high-quality landscape that improves health and well-being by appealing to all the human senses. The design provides seasonal interest, sensory features, delivers ecological enhancement and improves overall standards of biodiversity.

The key features of the landscape design are that it:

• Creates a welcoming entrance and soften the building’s frontage onto Holliday Street.
• Provides external terraces at the front of the building, alongside a communal garden and welcoming entrance.
• Incorporates a private communal courtyard for residents at the rear of the building.
• Creates an external roof terrace on the top of the building, providing a range of amenity spaces for residents including relaxing and barbecue area, children’s play and outdoor fitness area.

We are particularly excited at the potential of the roof terrace as a place for the building’s residents to interact, incorporate daily outdoor activity and provide a wide range of opportunities for people of all ages, from relaxing, dining through to sport and play. We think it helps to make the proposed development a unique proposition within Birmingham and will deliver a fantastic place to live, right in the heart of the city.

A planning application has been submitted to Birmingham City Council in summer 2022.