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Deanshanger

Previously a red oxide works, the derelict Elementis site occupied a prominent location in the centre of the village of Deanshanger, near Milton Keynes, and was subject to seasonal flooding.

• Illman Young initially engaged to produce framework for site redevelopment for housing and commercial uses

• Series of green corridors proposed, retaining and enhancing existing landscape and environmental features

• Developed into suite of detailed landscape drawings for Planning

• Existing culverted brook broken out and made a feature of the landscape plan, in consultation with the EA

• Detailed design and site implementation for play areas, and landscape to associated attenuation basin.