About the New English Living team

New English Living was founded in Worcester & Cheltenham by Andrew Parkhill who brings over 25 years of building and garden design experience to the business. He has lectured at the highest level in garden design at the renowned Pershore College, home to the Royal Horticultural Society’s regional centre, and won gold and silver-gilt RHS awards. His work has also appeared repeatedly in glossy magazines such as Period Living, Homes and Gardens, Move or Improve, Real Homes and Self build and Design.

About Andrew Parkhill

My wife describes me as a rare creature…

I am equally at home agonising over the colour harmonies in a planting schedule or briefing a glass blower on the fineties of glass texture and petal shape as I am discussing the nuances of foundations on a building plot with a horny handed groundworker. I am as fluent in Latin, bouncing round exciting ideas for plant varieties with a client, as I am with technical jargon in dialogue with an air source heat engineer.

My creativity draws on the clouds and the flowers but I love to get my hands dirty– that’s the way my drawings and ideas bring the client’s vision to a living breathing reality. Practicality and longevity underpins my every idea and I take huge personal pride in every step of a project.

My greatest frustration is clients, quite naturally, seeing garden and home as separate. Too many times, I have turned up as an extension or house is near completion where, had I worked with the architect, doors and windows were in the wrong place, vistas are missed, hardstanding is in the wrong place. These artificial constraints often are too costly to overcome – I always say, think of the bigger picture. Planning means you can explore the best opportunities for the inside and outside at minimal cost.

Contemporary, traditional and international style

Having worked on countless projects of many sizes and styles, we have an in-depth knowledge of a wide variety of advanced building landscaping and garden designing techniques. We work in traditional styles as well as creating the latest contemporary trends and drawing on the finest features of distinctive international garden styles,  according to a client’s individual taste, we can achieve a variety of effects in your garden to create beautiful timeless spaces for you to enjoy.

Founded in Worcester & Cheltenham, covering the Midlands, Cotswolds, Wales, London and the South East

We have worked across the UK, however being based in Worcester and Cheltenham we are ideally situated to work on home and garden projects across the West Midlands and Wales but equally, we have a track record of commissions in London and the South East . We offer no-obligation consultations and can come for a site visit at a time convenient to you. Our landscaping experience and our knowledge of advanced design and construction techniques and styles means we are in a great position to make the most of your inside and outside spaces. Our construction and renovation track record means we can not only deliver building projects in your home stylishly and on budget, but it means we can uniquely combine house and garden design and builds. We are able to take on large projects involving extensive landscaping and planting, so contact us for a chat today, and let’s begin the process of making your dream home and garden a reality.