The landscape design for 161–195 High Street, Preston creates a strong green identity within a dense inner-urban setting, balancing functional communal space with robust planting and sensitive residential interfaces. Memla Landscape Architects developed a landscape response that softens the built form through layered planting, sculptural planter beds and integrated screening, helping to create a more liveable and connected environment for residents.  

Central to the project is the expansive first-floor communal courtyard, designed as a shared outdoor retreat that encourages social interaction, passive recreation and visual relief within the development. Curvilinear planting beds and flowing circulation spaces establish an organic landscape language, while carefully positioned trees and shrubs provide shade, privacy and seasonal variation.  

The western interface incorporates dense evergreen screening and canopy planting to create a generous vegetated buffer to neighbouring properties, reinforcing privacy while contributing to the wider urban canopy. Across the project, planting was selected to provide year-round structure, texture and resilience, supported by generous planter depths and integrated irrigation systems. The scheme introduced eight medium to large trees alongside almost 500 shrubs, hedges and climbers, delivering a richly planted landscape outcome that enhances both resident amenity and the surrounding streetscape character.