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Roy Winter, RIBA, MLI.

Chief Landscape Architect for Redditch New
Town

Redditch is generally known as 'The Green Town' and
the man chiefly responsible for the town's green-
ness is Roy Winter, RIBA, MLI. Hon RBSA.

In 1964 he got the job of Chief Landscape Architect -
for Redditch New Town and was tasked with the job
of landscaping the whole of the new town. Working Roy Winter
with engineers, architects, estate officers, social
development officers and all the other disciplines
employed in the new town he likened the task at one
stage as to providing a new suit of clothes for a new
town.

(Source: Redditch – Success in the
Heart of England)

Source/Researched by: “Old Redditch Voices” by Anne Bradford

Landscaped footpath reflects the woodland environment.
Most woodland areas are accessible to the public for quiet

A bold initiative which led
to a new saying in
Redditch - “I'll meet you
under the palm trees'”
(Source: RDC
Photograph)

Arrow Valley Country Park covers an area of
approximately 400 hectares and occupies a

Life and Times of Roy Winter, RIBA, MLI.

"It's now thirty years since I finished landscaping Redditch New Town. All the planting –
all the trees, shrubs and flowers for all the new development were designed and
implemented by me, together with my team of Landscape Architects.

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