Planning, too, plays a crucial role in a building’s success. Facing the street, commercial units suitable for retail or hospitality flank the street entry, providing an activated gateway. Further into the site, the pedestrian street gently rises and widens out to become a fully landscaped courtyard, a shared space – the social heart of the development – with large specimen trees to provide dappled shade and vertical climbing plants to create a green backdrop. Either side of the street raised planters ease the transition between public and private spaces and introduce colour, texture and visual appeal.