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Leamington High Line

Hope

Running from Bath Street and the High Street towards Court Street. A community garden on the viaduct, with tiered growing beds, a greenhouse and one long table under a pergola, for growing food and bringing the neighbourhood together.

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Sketch plan of the Hope Garden from above. A greenhouse sits near the entrance, a path curves past a long table under a pergola, and stepped planters and growing beds fill the far end.
Hope Garden sketch (Greenwood-Hill): the first ideas for the garden on paper, drawn with our landscape architects. Hover over or tap a number to see what it is.

  1. 1: A gateway to mark the entrance

  2. 2: A greenhouse, café and potting shed

  3. 3: A long feasting table under a pergola

  4. 4: Festoon lights

  5. 5: Stepped allotment planters

  6. 6: The community garden

  7. 7: Climbers along a wire mesh fence

Growing together

The Hope Garden is about food growing and the sense of community that grows around shared spaces. A greenhouse, a café and a garden shed give the garden its focus: places to meet, learn and gather, somewhere to store tools for the community growing and allotments, and a destination people come up for in its own right.

The growing beds are tiered, stepping up through the space as you walk, so the garden is productive and within reach at a range of heights. Seating is woven throughout, and a pergola gives shelter to a feasting table: one long communal table for shared meals, events and everyday connection. A gateway marks each end, as in every garden, so the space has a clear identity of its own.

The path meanders, and that makes pockets with different characters: one part more of a community garden for the people who tend it, the rest open and welcoming to everyone passing through. There is a rooftop growing space in Copenhagen that we keep coming back to, with a greenhouse at its heart, where food production, social life and green space come together in one destination: somewhere people walk through for pleasure that also happens to grow food.

Section

Cross-section through the Hope Garden. On the left, growing beds, butterflies and a bird box among planting on the viaduct deck, with people walking and sitting. On the right, a train passing on the live railway viaduct alongside.
Section through the Hope Garden (Greenwood-Hill), with the live railway viaduct running alongside on the right.

Here the viaduct sits particularly close to the railway, so the boundary screen that follows the line through every garden matters more. As well as separation from the line, it makes a backdrop for planting that supports both people and wildlife: layered planting, edible species, seasonal colour and flowers for pollinators, so the garden brings in not just people but birds and insects too, and is as valuable for nature as it is for the community.