Bordon - Hampshire

Hampshire County Council has a new schools programme for new-build schools and expansions to existing schools across Hampshire. Schools are also being provided as part of wider masterplans for the expansion of town and village areas.
We undertook a Strategic Landscape Character Study on a number of HCC’s sites across the county. The commission was to provide a summary of existing landscape character data and to further this with local characterisation studies, identification of landscape character elements and a landscape site appraisal to form a series of strategic approaches to the planning and landscape design of school sites, which are located in a variety of difference landscape character areas and types.

A masterplan for the town for the former military base at Bordon with new proposed senior and two junior schools. Located near Alton the area is rich in woodland and heathland, the site was once within Woolmer Forest, a Royal Hunting Forest. Streams and drains are common and the local area has a concentration of archaeological sites including bronze age barrows and tumuli.