The Peterborough Garden Park is an innovative retail development which creates a new generation of home and garden centres. The development has leading garden centre retailer Van Hage as the anchor unit. The main garden centre comprises of 50,000 sq ft of enclosed retail space, with an extensive external planteria, along with an additional 40,000 sq ft of associated use retail units, featuring a café unit. This exciting development has been designed in a contemporary style incorporating a mix of wood, steel and glass and features an integrated landscaped courtyard design. With an overall sustainable approach to design, the uses are well suited to the employment of installed features such as the collection and nature of the tenants have naturally lent themselves to such features as the collection and recycling of rainwater for use in ongoing site irrigation.