Gardens here
Predominantly 1970s-2000s housing — the Locks Heath estates, Lockswood, Brookside. Mid-size rear gardens, typically eight to fifteen metres deep, often left as developer-grade lawn at handover. Suburban and family-orientated; gardens are used.
Soil is generally good — free-draining over gravel-bed substrates. Plot proportions tend toward rectangular, which suits clean hardscape geometry well.
Working the area
Five to ten minutes from the studio. Regular work in the area; site visits same day where the calendar supports it.
Material decisions
Full studio palette available without heritage constraints. Newer-build gardens often benefit from a strong design move — a defined entertaining zone, a sleeper raised bed run, a transition path — rather than incremental small-scale work spread across the plot.
In practice
See Garden transformation, Locks Heath 2026: an uneven, largely unusable garden rebuilt into a bright, low-maintenance space, with a new porcelain patio, brick-edged lawn, planting beds, and a new gate and fencing.
See the Locks Heath project