Landscape record 1508700000 - Broadwater Park, Denham

Broadwater Park is a commercial landscape designed in 1982-1984 by Preben Jakobsen, developed contemporaneously with the associated office building, by Elsom Pack Roberts (EPR) for the National Water Council.
Reasons for Designation: Broadwater Park designed by Preben Jakobsen, 1982-1984, is registered at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
Historic interest: - as a representation of the work of Preben Jakobsen, an accomplished and influential designer, teacher and theoretician, and a leader in the field of commercial landscaping; - Jakobsen’s work has been subject to a high degree of attrition, and Broadwater Park is both an excellent representation and the best surviving of his commercial landscapes; - a relatively rare survival of a 1980s commercial landscape design associated with a contemporary office building.
Design interest: - exemplifying Jakobsen’s design philosophy, the landscape is rationally planned with a focus on geometry in three dimensions, while combining highly formal, ethereal and traditional elements to form a series of distinctive, characterful areas; - the landscape and its layout is articulated and informed by EPR’s High Tech office slab, designed contemporaneously with input from Jakobsen, and is complementary of its sleek, rigid geometry. See listing description for detail (B1).