Featherstone Young gets go-ahead for Dartmoor hillside home

SKY GARDEN aerial View

Source: Featherstone Young

Practice’s ’Sky Garden’ will replace 1980s bungalow at spectacular Devon spot

Featherstone Young has won planning permission to deliver a new seven-bedroom family home with “exemplary sustainability credentials” on a spectacular hillside spot in Dartmoor National Park.

The practice said its Sky Garden home had been inspired by the topography and history of the site and surrounding area, as well as the vernacular and materials of the Dartmoor environs, and aimed to “create new forms” from its surroundings.

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