East Fonthill Secondary Plan & Urban Design Guidelines Win Award
The Town of Pelham is pleased to receive a 2014 Niagara Community Design Award in Urban Design and Architecture for the East Fonthill Secondary Plan and Urban Design Guidelines.
Pelham received top honours in the Policy & Plans Category. The documents outline the detailed policies and guidelines for growth and development in the East Fonthill area at Regional Road 20 along Rice Road to south of Merritt Road.
“It’s gratifying to receive this recognition on behalf of Council, Town Staff, the Region, and the consulting team (lead by the Planning Partnership),” said Mayor Dave Augustyn. “The development of the 450 acres in the East Fonthill area has the potential to improve and change Pelham for the better. This award recognizes our efforts to balance growth as we maintain our small town feel.”
Some of the goals of the East Fonthill Secondary Plan include:
- Ensuring a well-designed, attractive, pedestrian-friendly community with a mixture of housing types;
- encouraging significant retail/commercial development while at the same time protecting the existing Fonthill Downtown;
- providing a “Greenlands System” that protects existing environmental features and integrates with the Steve Bauer Trail system; and
- developing a pedestrian/cyclist-friendly and transit-ready road network.
As part of the secondary planning process, the Town approved the East Fonthill Site Master Plan for the northern part of the East Fonthill area. This plan contains concept drawings for six distinct blocks that show various possible permitted land uses, including institutional-medical, retail, retirement, community centre, mixed-use commercial, townhomes, single-detached residential, mixed-use residential and parks and trails. The Site Master Plan also incorporates details about streetscapes that include roundabouts, trails, parks and public squares that complement the Town’s urban design guidelines.
The Town of Pelham owns 32 acres of land in the East Fonthill area where a medical centre, retirement facility and Wellspring Niagara headquarters will be built. Town Council, with the help of an Architectural Design Advisory Committee, is currently exploring the potential inclusion of a multi-faceted community centre (including an arena). A hotel feasibility study is also underway to determine whether a hotel would be of benefit to the community in the area. For more information about East Fonthill, please visit pelham.ca/east-fonthill.
The 2014 Niagara Community Design Award is Pelham’s second – the Town was awarded honours in 2013 for the Town of Pelham Downtown Arches in the in the Public Realm Improvement Category.


Vettisfossen in Norway is the tallest free-falling waterfall in Europe and the 284th in the world, with a single drop of 275 meters (902 ft).
What makes this waterfall stand out is that it is the tallest unregulated free-falling single-drop waterfall in Norway. The architects have designed a notched wood pavilion curving around a bonfire, defining a natural shelter after hours of hiking.
To access the waterfall it is an about 6km long hike in each direction (or 12km round trip). It will take you a little over 4 hours to do the entire out-and-back hike with some rest and photo breaks. Since there are other interesting waterfalls along the way, the hike doesn’t seem that long.
Reaching the viewpoint, the inside of the Vetti pavilion serves as a compass, framing a variety of motives in the landscape, – from the rocks, heather and birch trees nearby, to the monumental mountains and waterfall in a distance.
Now Vardehagen architects in collaboration with the National Park Manager and the local municipality of Årdal in Sogn og Fjordane has been commissioned to redesign the old viewpoint. The work will begin later this year, and when the projected Vetti Pavilion is completed in 2019, visitors can enjoy a campfire, a shelter, a scenic route and an outdoor museum, next to the Vettisfossen falls.
The architects aim to replace the classic lookout point with an insight point, a social place where hikers can experience the landscape in a diverse way, and so socialize and share their thoughts with each other.
The Breathtaking Vettisfossen Falls in Norway, written by Tor Kjolberg
Feature image (on top): Photo: © Eskild Digrenes / www.eskildigernes.com


In August of 2014 the team of Project Bloom got together and caravaned around Islip Hamlet to look at some of the best garden beds we had seen all season. These beds are maintained by KIC volunteers, and were planted with the flowers grown by us earlier in the year.
The first stop on the tour was to the Welcome sign to East Islip, near the library. Here, the East Islip Community Cleanup planted our plants and beautified beneath the town sign. See more pictures here!
Next, we headed north to Central Islip, to visit the North Great River Civic Association. This group had two beds, both of which were equally impressive and gorgeous. A small shady bed off Connetquot Avenue, and a large impressive triangle at the North end of Connetquot Ave. See more pictures here!
The next bed that Project Bloom visited was planted by the Central Islip Civic Council. They had maintained an organic farm, and had large and vivid bushels of flowers.All of the flowers planted by the Central Islip Civic Council came out very nice. They were very enjoyable to see fully grown. See more pictures here!
The next stop for the caravan, was to see the bed planted by the northeast Neighborhood watch. They had planted a huge bed, that was very nice. See more pictures here!
The next garden we looked at was from the Islip High School KIC (Keep Islip Clean) Club. They had planted some of our flowers in front of the school and also within the school courtyard. See more pictures here!
The final stop on the caravan tour was to see the East Islip Community Watch bed. Their bed was small, but had a lot in it. They had strawflowers, foxglove, big coleus plants, allysum and ageratum. See more pictures here!
Photo Credit: Joanna Kane


Beautiful design with natural flair
When designing a new development, we understand the importance of creating an authentic sense of place. This idea of ‘place’ will always be interpreted personally, but for us it’s about what makes our residents feel at home.
From houses and streetscapes to public spaces, we’ve taken inspiration from the character of the Adelaide Hills and Mt Lofty Ranges to create a timeless, contemporary Australian design unique to Newenham.
For potential residents like you, it means having the benefit of a strong design team to work with. We know that individuality in home and garden comes from creative freedom, and that’s something we endeavour to provide to every resident.
Our personalised design service is a significant point of difference and it helps us better understand your idea of a dream home. The design framework we’ve put in place allows you to be bold and to inject your own personality and style into your living environment.
We’ll have a range of inspiring Newenham home designs to choose from. On the other hand, if you wish to custom design and build your dream home, we have processes in place and friendly people to encourage and help you achieve these goals.
When it comes to the design of public spaces, we’ve worked hard to achieve a friendly, sustainable and balanced environment, to give you and your family plenty of space to roam and enjoy. From kids’ play areas that foster creativity and imagination to verge treatments that convey a gentle softness, we’re taking everything into consideration. Public art, lighting, fencing, seating, signage, animal play spaces, drinking stations, rubbish disposal, walking trails and bike paths all beautifully illustrate our attention to detail and commitment to community.
All in all, our thoughtful and intelligent design will give Newenham a natural, effortless beauty that will influence long-term liveability, support capital growth and enrich the health, happiness and wellbeing of the entire community.
Designed for wellbeing
The broader master plan for Newenham has been designed for wellbeing in every sense of the word.
Our desire is to see this vision reflected in your house design to ensure that the investment you make gives you the best opportunity to create a living environment that reflects your personality and style.
We believe that the beauty and financial value of a home goes well beyond its architecture. The building’s relationship with the environment and its neighbours can make an important difference too. This can include gardens, fencing and driveways, all of which have been taken into consideration in our design philosophy.
By each home displaying a high level of architectural interest while being sympathetic to the surrounding environment, we believe an interesting and vibrant community, bursting with life, will be born.
We don’t want to be ‘just another residential development’. We want to create a place which will grow in character so that it can enrich the health, happiness and wellbeing of everyone who calls it home.
Our Personalised Design Team
An exciting initiative which we believe will help to set us apart is our Design Team who are focussed on sustainability and designing for health and wellbeing. The mission of this team is to become your design partner to promote high quality design that meets the vision for Newenham and importantly to educate, guide and assist you through the challenges of building a new home.
From the outset a member of the Team can work with you and your architect or builder to provide advice on how to optimise the site’s opportunities and to assist in understanding and implementing the Design Guidelines. Our Design Manager can help you to achieve a streamlined development approval process by assisting you to achieve a quality design that meets the requirements of the Design Guidelines prior to the submission of your development application.
To contact our Design Manager please call 0408 050 339 or send an email to [email protected] and we’ll be in touch soon.
Alternatively our Design Manager will be at Newenham every Wednesday between 1 – 5pm, so feel free to pop in and have a chat.
Our Design Guildelines
Our guidelines have been prepared to assist you and your architect in developing both construction and landscaping designs which are consistent with the desired character, aesthetics and sustainable urban design principles of Newenham.
The Newenham Design Guidelines provide a balance between allowing an individual to show personal design expression, innovation and creativity, whilst ensuring there are enough overarching design parameters to guide a quality design outcome for the whole community.
To receive a copy of our Design Guidelines, please contact us and a member of our Team will be in touch shortly.
Phone: 0408 050 339
Find Your Perfect Place at Newenham
At Newenham our open space philosophy is reflected in the larger allotment sizes our residents will enjoy – an average of 730 sqm.
The way we’ve designed Newenham means you’ll always be close to one of the many parks or reserves dotted throughout the precinct. You will easily be able to access the shared bike and walking trail that will follow the natural contours of the magnificent Western Flat Creek and lead you into the vibrant heart of Mount Barker.
We encourage you to take advantage of the gentle undulations on the property to design your dream home to make the most of the natural Adelaide Hills topography available throughout Newenham.


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VILLA MELZI GARDENS
The geometrical taste of green
Photographs Cristina Archinto
Text Carla De Agostini
It was in 1808 that Francesco Melzi d'Eril, Duke of Lodi, Grand Councillor, Keeper of the Seals of the Kingdom of Italy and a personal friend of Napoleon's, decided to build his summer residence at Bellagio on land with a stupendous view of Lake Como. Thus Villa Melzi and its gardens were created, taking advantage of the natural terraces and the variety of views in which it is immersed, playing on the curved paths that cross the property throughout its extension and connect the points of interest, the architectural furnishings and the numerous sculptures with historical and mythological subjects placed among the rich vegetation.
At the entrance to the property, in the direction of Bellagio, one reaches a small area laid out as an oriental garden, with a characteristic pond, surrounded by Japanese maples and camellias that create a brightly coloured ensemble. The garden alternates majestic century-old trees with exotic and rare species, grouped in wooded patches, planted in rows along the shore or isolated in the grassy carpet. The refined taste for the exotic that characterises the Villa Melzi Gardens finds its most graceful expression in the numerous species of historic camellias, now about 250, that can be admired in the park, especially near the two entrances, at Loppia and Bellagio. Many of them were born from seed and are mostly related to the main species of Camelia japonica, but a large number are cultivars of great historical-botanical interest, created in the nineteenth century.
Villa Melzi also picks up the tradition of topiary art, which in Italy reached excellence in the late Renaissance. At that time, the taste and sensibility of Humanism, whose philosophy is based on the idea of Promethean man and his triumph over nature, inspired the creation of gardens carefully subordinated to the geometry of forms, then the rediscovery of the ars topiary with its pruning techniques to shape plants into decorative forms. This style has its roots in Roman times, with an influence from Greek art, when, in other words, thanks to the Empire, cultural trends were reunited and intertwined in the service of a new aesthetic. The first experiments were carried out in the new gardens of suburban villas, desired by aristocratic families. The Roman garden acquired an interweaving of poetry, sculpture and Hellenic painting, which gave rise to a truly new landscape composition, which would later become the basis of the Italian garden.
In the gardens of Villa Melzi, symmetries can be appreciated, not only for their geometric taste but also to celebrate the beauty of the essential characteristics of nature itself: not only gardening but art, through the precise choice of colours and shapes, such as the umbrella pruning of the plane trees or the particular positioning of centuries-old trees and exotic species, where Ginkgo biloba, red beeches or camphor trees enhance the view around them, together with shrubs, rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias.
Love and precision stand out at Villa Melzi, in the care of the greenery, in the architectural variety of parapets, balustrades, marble busts, in the galleries of citrus trees, which create an unusual and fascinating play of geometries, in which to lose oneself without paying attention to the passing of time.


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Jane Brockbank Gardens is an award winning landscape design studio based in London. Started in 1999 they have built up a reputation for dynamic and imaginative planting with a strong emphasis on how plants coexist and interrelate in nature. Coming from a fine art background Jane combines a painterly use of colour and texture with a contemporary approach to structure and form.
A love of craft and detail permeates everything they do.
Collaborations with leading Architect’s and designers have resulted in a wide range of private and commercial projects from pocket sized city gardens through to large country estates. She has exhibited twice at Chelsea Flower Show, the last one ‘Nature Ascending’ in 2009 receiving a gold.
Jane holds full registered membership status (MSGD) with The Society of Garden Designers and currently sits on the editorial panel of their magazine The Garden Design Journal.
The Society of Garden Designers is the only professional association dedicated to supporting, promoting and maintaining the highest standards within the industry.
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We can offer design only work or full co-ordination of a project from start to finish giving all aspects the rigorous attention to detail we are known and trusted for. We are experienced in planning applications and large-scale master-planning.
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When arranging your small garden plan I highly recommend that you make a number of key decisions very early on in the process.
To begin this decision making process, carry out a basic analysis of what you want to use the space for, and let this guide the design process for you as you go along. Simply make a list of all the things that your garden must do for you when it is finished, such as:
- Provide colour for as much of the year as possible
- Have sitting & dining space
- Have a small lawn to set off the planting
- Accommodate a shed, cloths-line & oil tank
- Be as bright as possible
Butler Garden Altmont – Photo Shirley Lazenby
One of the most common mistakes at this stage is trying to get too much to fit into the space. In particular do resist the temptation to get a space in there for ball playing as it always restricts other usages. In most cases where I have designed small gardens to include ball games they have never been used for this purpose and we have ended up with spaces that were neither a garden or an active recreation area.
Make your decisions early in the process and stick to them as closely as possible. In particular make a decision very early on with regard to whether you want a relatively informal space or a small formal garden. You might like to have a look at my Cottage Garden page if you have decided to take the informal route, as some of the information there may be relevant to what you are doing.
If, on the other hand, you decide to take the formal route, then you should try to keep everything in proportion with the size of the garden and not include elements that are too large for the space.
There are techniques that you can use in order to make a small garden appear to be bigger than it is. Using a mirror on a vertical surface for instance will reflect some of the garden and give the impression that it goes on for further than it does.
Allowing water to flow to an area that is out of sight, where it makes a noise, can help to instill a sense of mystery and help you to achieve a degree of complexity.
Experimenting with leaf texture and size can make a space seem bigger that it is, as can borrowing an adjacent feature such as a view or and established garden feature in a neighbouring property. You do need to keep in mind that you will have no control over external elements such as views and features belonging to you neighbours and they may change or disappear leaving a gap in you design.
If you are including a terrace or patio space try to ensure that you have room to accommodate at least a 3meter/yard by 3meter/yard patio area. If you fall short of this requirement perhaps opening the dining area of your house using a large sliding door might be an option. You will get the benefit of the garden while still being indoors.Of course the other thing you can do with a small garden is simply to accept that it is small and to deal with it accordingly. Imagine that you were to design a small garden using the principles outlined herein using the smallest possible plants, pots and paving slabs and using the finest textured materials available such as wrought iron and other garden furniture.
Year round colour is often a requirement for small garden. It is of course easier to grow plants that are useful for their colour in the spring, summer and autumn seasons. You can select some plants for winter colour from your local nursery or garden centre, however these tend to be sometimes less than impressive once planted and they may take up more space that you want to make available.
This is a good time to begin to think inventively about things like your garden furniture and your enclosures. For instance wrought iron furniture that is painted white will reflect winter sunlight and brighten up a winter garden, especially if it used for feeding birds and other wildlife.
Elsewhere on the site I have mentioned planting something like Cornus alba “Sibirica” in front of a black fence or railing, using the green leaved variety. The green leaves will allow glimpses of your fence throughout the growing season and will provide a backdrop for your spring, summer and autumn plantings. In late autumn the leaves will change colour to red and then drop. This leaves the red bark against a black railing providing some dramatic winter interest.
Be inventive and look around at what others have done, especially during late autumn, winter and early spring. If you come up with ideas that you’d like to share e-mail them to me and I’ll put them here on the site for everybody to enjoy.
Do be careful, especially in the small garden, of using variegated material. This is plant material that has been selected for its mainly green and yellow variegated foliage. While this can look good when used in particular ways it is very difficult to get it right. Too much of this variegated material will cause endless visual confusion and may be counterproductive as it will make your small space appear to be smaller than it is. Not a good idea.
Keep it simple. Too much interest will simply take you to the “Louder and Funnier” zone and you may end up with a visual entity that looks something like the circus. This is of course a good thing if that’s what you want to achieve, but it is generally best avoided.
In the small garden your enclosure should be a unified part of the design. Its colour and texture can be chosen to reflect the nature of your small space. Try to use materials that have a fine texture and some detail in order to incorporate extra interest into the space. Use these vertical surfaces as part of your garden design, whether they provide interest in and of themselves or whether you use them as a vehicle to grow plants. Imagine a bright yellow fence that is covered in red roses all summer long, which will bring a feeling of sunshine into your garden during the winter! Too much? Perhaps, but why not experiment?
You can progress your Small Garden Design by using the Design your Garden Section of this website, using the bits that are relevant to what you are doing. You can start here


Weed Prevention, Barriers, and Blocks
Weed blocks, weed barriers, and herbicide application are all phenomenal forms of weed prevention. Eliminating the ability for weeds to continue to grow is one of the best things you can do for your property. Since you have effectively cut out the ability for photosynthesis to take place, the root system and the invasive plants cannot take over your landscape. Thus saving you money and time in the long run.
Our trained professionals will effectively remove all of the weeds in your yard with a cut to soil process using hand-tools and weed-whacker’s. Then a weed block will be laid down to ensure the highest level of protection against the future growth of weeds. An optional ground cover will then be installed (mulch, bark, rocks…ext.) in order to retain and achieve your properties aesthetic appearance.