Southern Green collaborated with a wider design team to support a joint venture between Blocwork and Platform4. This involved preparing a landscape masterplan and Townscape and Visual Impact Assessment for a mixed-use, build to rent development. The brownfield, city centre site is a former rail yard with proposals incorporating an elevated linear park along a reclaimed viaduct.

The landscape design of the public realm interprets and celebrates the former use of the space through re-use of reclaimed industrial materials, re-creation of post-industrial brownfield habitats, linear form, and integration of contemporary artwork and interpretative rail lines that run through the space.

Set against the historically significant backdrop of the King Edward VII Bridge and Railway Viaduct, the design takes its cues from the site’s post-industrial railway heritage, emphasised through recreation the site’s established brownfield habitat, which has naturalised throughout the partially derelict site. The lost railway lines have been reinterpreted through the concept of ‘New Lines’, which tell the story of the site.