Planned Development at Carlisle

Proposed Dobbies Garden World - Orton Grange, Dalston, Carlisle

The building design

We intend to bring a new generation of garden centre to Carlisle. The proposed design of the buildings is illustrated in the drawings and the artist’s impression.
We believe that it is important to select the right materials for our Garden World developments. Use of natural materials in the building exterior helps to ensure that the building sits comfortably within the surrounding landscape.
Innovative architectural features will break up the line of the building frontage, thereby reducing apparent scale. We propose to use sustainable timber cladding and screening, along with green (plant-clad) wall sections and green (sedum) roofing, features which will soften the appearance of the building as well as emphasise Dobbies horticultural roots.
Careful use of glazing will create an open and welcoming frontage, revealing the horticultural activities within and timber louvred screening will be used where appropriate to regulate solar gain for optimum energy efficiency.
Plant protection canopies will extend along the rear of the building, creating frost protection for early bedding stock.

The landscape

Getting landscaping right is very important with every Garden World we create. In this case we propose a fun and engaging landscape with demonstration gardens, specimen ornamental tree and shrub planting and seasonal colour through herbaceous plant material and bulb planting.
We aim to enhance views both from within and outwith the site. We propose boundary landscaping consisting of native stock woodland planting, hedgerow and mature specimen trees suitable for the site location and conditions.
We have instructed an ecologist to ensure local habitat is adequately protected and where possible, enhanced. This will tie into sustainable forms of landscape to be implemented through the inclusion of sustainable drainage, native plant material and ecologically sound principles of landscape maintenance.