Wendy Allen Designs

Bronze Medal Winners – RHS Hampton Court Flower Show 2008

An award-winning professional garden designer based in NW London

Contemporary and sustainable gardens, green roofs and strawbale structures of any size designed to suit your requirements and budget

 

COME AND SEE US AT THE RHS HAMPTON COURT PALACE FLOWER SHOW 2009

Small Sustainable Garden: 'The Rain Chain'
Sponsors: Hadlow College and Westgate Joinery

Featuring a green roof and a rain garden to absorb rainwater and reduce the risk of flash flooding, our urban front garden features in the first ever Sustainable Gardens category at the show.
The rear wall is made from 100% recyclable, FSC approved Accoya timber (50 year durability softwood) from renewable resources. It has been especially constructed by Westgate Joinery to be rebuilt as a Summerhouse after the show.

If you would like to own this unique Summerhouse with green roof, visit www.westgatejoinery.co.uk/summerhouse.htm
to place a bid in our auction.
50% of proceeds will go to Maggie's Cancer Care Centres.

Tickets for the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show are available by calling 0844 209 1810 or visiting www.rhs.org.uk

 

FRONT GARDENS

“There’s no doubt a great front garden makes a home
easier to sell and it might increase the value”
Sarah Beeny, London Paper Apr-2008

To improve the welcome to your home or even to help sell it, we can transform your front garden. We can provide you with:

• A FREE* site visit to discuss requirements
• A fully labelled design plan to scale with details of all materials used
• A planting plan using plants suited to the aspect and soil
• A list of plants with quantities required and maintenance notes
• A hand-drawn artist's impression of the final garden
• Recommendations of local professional landscape contractors to build the garden (or you may choose to undertake the build yourself)

* A nominal charge of £25 will be made for all site visits within Greater London or 10 miles of our office, but will be deducted from the final amount owing if the homeowner proceeds with a Front Garden design. Contact us for prices of site visits to other areas.

All designs will comply with the new planning laws regarding permeable front garden surfaces (see below) therefore NO planning permission will be required.

You can choose to set your own total build & planting budget for us to design within and to help you decide on what is achievable, we can advise on likely costs.

Call or email us now to arrange a consultation at a time to suit you.

 

Planning Laws for Front Gardens

Any new non-permeable front garden surfaces over 5 square metres in size now require planning permission.

New Permeable Paving Legislation

“From October 2008, new legislation came into place requiring homeowners to obtain planning permission before installing a non-permeable surface in front gardens. The legislation has been introduced after the Government identified a need to manage surface water run-off more effectively in built-up areas to prevent the overfilling of mains drainage – two-thirds of the 2007 floods are thought to have been caused by significant amounts of water overwhelming drainage systems. At present, new legislation appears only to affect new and extended gardens and driveways at the front of a property, adjacent to the road. Back gardens are not affected.”
RHS ‘The Garden’ Magazine, Nov-2008

 

For more information, see:

www.communities.gov.uk/documents/planningandbuilding/
pdf/pavingfrontgardens.pdf
Details of Paving Options

www.rhs.org.uk/news/FrontGardens.asp
Royal Horticultural Society advice