Quartet Design

Quartet Design provides a full range of landscape architecture services to public, commercial and private clients around the United Kingdom. Quartet Design aspires to create places and spaces where people want to live, work and visit, combining our experience, vision, resources and multi-disciplinary skills to take on any size project. We can provide a range of services appropriate to any scheme, including; masterplanning, environmental planning, green infrastructure strategies, urban regeneration, housing, sustainable urban drainage systems, parks & recreation, healthcare, commercial & mixed use development and gardens.

Portfolio

A selection of recently completed projects

Projects

Date: 2019-04-01

Client: Stowe School

Quartet Design were proudly instructed to provide a detailed landscape design for a new Boarding House at the historic Stowe School. The historical location of the boarding house gave the Site strong definition by the existing woodland planting within the historic surroundings. This gave precedent to the design principles of creating an outdoor room similar to the historic principle which the tennis courts had with the menagerie and its associated gardens. The overall quality of the space we have designed works very well with the historical context the Site has.

Date: 2008-10-04

Client: Abbeygate Developments

A high quality mixed use development including a large Sainsbury’s supermarket, commercial, retail units, and 441 apartments and townhouses. The scheme has an emphasis on high quality urban spaces and courtyards.

Date: 2020-04-01

Client: Brickhill Homes

Quartet Design were instructed to produce a full hard and soft detailed landscape scheme for a new residential development in Soulbury. The scheme was initially refused but was granted following an appeal.
Quartet conducted a baseline visual assessment to support the planning application as well as a detailed package of drawings which were used to discharge the planning conditions on the Site.
The site consisted of 10 units and associated green space with a woodland buffer to the boundary of the development which was adjacent to the open Buckinghamshire
countryside.

Our Clients

Services

We offer a wide range of Landscape Design, Planning and Consultancy Services. Please see a selection below of services we offer

Landscape Design

Our landscape design services are built on an ethos of landscape led and sustainable development principles. We can help our clients deliver results in a climate of increasing environmental awareness.

Quartet Design's landscape design team offers a comprehensive service in the effective design and management of landscape design issues.

Landscape Planning

Quartet Design has a wide range of best practice landscape and visual impact assessment (LVIA) techniques for diverse projects throughout the UK.

Our highly experienced landscape architects also appraise landscapes to establish the capacity to absorb a given development and assess the effects of landscape character. We regularly provide landscape expert witness services at Public Inquiries.

Urban Design & Masterplanning

Urban Design & Masterplanning Description

Arboricultural Impact Assessments

Arboricultural Description

Our Team

David Newman

Partner

David has more than 35 years experience in Landscape Architecture and Horticulture.

He began his career in horticulture and trained at both Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Edinburgh gaining professional qualifications. His second qualification in Landscape Architecture was achieved at Birmingham in 1973, since then he has worked as a Landscape Architect in Manchester, and for Northampton and Milton Keynes Development Corporations.

In 1988 David became the founding partner of Quartet Design. The range of his work experience is considerable, and includes structure and district planning, major linear park planning and implementation, Landscape schemes for major infrastructure and highway projects, restoration of historic landscapes and land reclamation, design and management for commercial and housing developments and inner city reclamation.

He also has specialist knowledge of arboricultural practice and was formerly the Chairman of the Committee on Plant Supply and Establishment (the technical subcommittee of the Joint Council for Landscape Industries).

Samuel Stoker

Partner

Samuel came into landscape architecture from a purely design background.
Following his post-graduate degree in Landscape Architecture at Birmingham City University.

Sam has gained a wide range of experience in public realm, parks, residential and commercial landscape schemes. Sam was involved more recently in a new park design within the London borough of Bexley which has recently achieved planning approval. Samuel left his position as Senior Landscape Architect at a local landscape and planning practice and became a partner of Quartet Design in 2018.
Sam has recently been involved with working with historical landscapes within developments which Quartet Design have been involved with at Stowe School.

Sam also is involved with the completion of Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments which highlight how a ‘Site’ could potentially affect the surrounding characteristics of the landscape.

His design characteristics and ethos ensure a quality design meeting client’s requirements and his influence has ensured that the practice maintains the highest standards of quality and design.