A debate about the future design and development of gardens and landscapes around new homes

What is No Stone Unturned?

New homes - creating our future environment

It's your opportunity to contribute to the debate and your chance to influence our future landscape and environment. No Stone Unturned is a platform to explore new opportunities and examine ways to improve the gardens, landscapes and outdoor space around new homes.

The debate seeks to achieve tangible results - not just talk for the sake of talking. The No Stone Unturned debate will challenge and inspire everyone that takes part.

The No Stone Unturned debate challenges everyone to find solutions and common ground to achieve excellence in the creation of the outdoor space around new developments

Aims and Themes

• Consider the layout of the garden or landscape at the early stage of development - not simply as an afterthought
• Getting professionals to work together - house builders drawing on the skills of garden designers and landscape architects
• Using plants to their full potential - avoiding the excessive use of hard landscaping
• Budgets - does a good garden have to be an expensive garden?
• Building maintenance costs and logistics into communal projects at the planning stage
• Drainage and water conservation - alternative solutions for driveways and front gardens
• A design template - is it possible, feasible or desirable?
• Addressing legislative and planning constraints with creativity, avoiding utilitarian solutions
• Creative planting and expanding the plant palette
• Nationally, over 200,000 new homes are built each year which means acres and acres of new gardens and landscapes
• The decisions we make today can have a real and lasting impact on the future of our environment - join the debate