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Flimwell Park East Sussex News
13 April 2022
Mixed typology: work spaces built on stilts, focal building, restaurant, earth-embanked lodges, and houses
Design: Architect Steve Johnson of The Architecture Ensemble
Flimwell Park : A mixed use woodland development brings disused land back to life
Location: Hawkhurst Rd, Flimwell, Ticehurst, Wadhurst, East Sussex, Southern England, UK

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Flimwell Park, East Sussex, Southern England
Flimwell Park, a pioneering mixed use sustainable woodland development in East Sussex, is nearing completion after a decade of consultation, planning and construction.
Formerly Flimwell Bird Park, the site located in an AONB in the heart of Flimwell, is a collaboration between property developer Regalmain Limited and architect Steve Johnson of The Architecture Ensemble. Along with a core team of foresters, ecologists, permaculturists to re-purpose the land, the site has been transformed into an inspiring new model for a sustainable woodland community that blends living, working, recreation and learning.

The site includes a series of eight timber two-storey work spaces built on stilts, a 900 sqm focal building and rooftop greenhouse and adjacent restaurant space all constructed to allow ample natural light as well as excellent viewing of the surrounding woodland. Ten earth-embanked lodges, five houses (two being project-linked)...