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Nov 2024
Garden design studio submits plans to open in Ripon
A landscape architecture and garden design company has submitted plans to open premises in Ripon city centre.
Alistair W Baldwin Associates specialises in the creation of public and private gardens and has previously worked on garden designs at Grantley Hall, Rudding Park and Bowcliffe Hall.
It has applied to North Yorkshire Council to install new signage and lighting at unit 11 on Fishergate and repaint the building.
The unit is situated in a grade two listed building and was formerly a Scope charity shop. It could now become a garden design studio and a learning hub in the new year.
The Ripon studio would be the first bricks and mortar store for the company, it currently employs five people who all work remotely and travel to sites.
Company director Alistair Baldwin is a renowned garden designer who founded the Yorkshire School of Garden Design, which will be housed on the first floor of the unit.
Plans for the Alistair Baldwin studio
Mr Baldwin told the Stray Ferret that the building will become “a nice mix of a design studio and learning hub”.
He said:
We are really excited and hoping that the space will give us a new level of exposure physically and visually.
It is quite unusual for a garden design practice to have a presence on the high street, but it will enable us to bring two things under one roof and make it viable for us.
Ripon is a great city, it is a good location and very central for the team, we hope to become part of the community.
He added that the building would undergo an extensive refurbishment and that his company and the landlord have “invested significantly” to repair the roof as well as to restore and decorate the interior.
He said, “our business is about creating beautiful things, and we are committed to making [the building] attractive”.
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