The Orchards is laid out around the trees that were here first. Forty-one heritage apple and pear trees have been kept, surveyed and replanted where the roads now run, so every street opens onto green.

Homes are built in a soft red multi-stock brick with clay tile roofs, timber porches and deep window reveals. Inside, ceilings are 2.5 metres on the ground floor and every home faces either south or west into its garden.