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Better by design

have always wanted a rill,” says Martin Henderson. “It was up there on the wish list when we had our garden redesigned.” In 2016, after seven years living in a converted Victorian pub, not far from the Essex town of Saffron Waldon, Martin and his wife Nicola commissioned a contemporary extension to accommodate their growing family and in the process lost a third of their garden to building work.

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