In 1997 Warwick District Council appointed Plincke to prepare a feasibility report on the site, evaluating options from complete redevelopment of the site to full restoration. The council accepted Plincke’s recommendation of full restoration and appointed them to develop a strategy, identify funding sources, coordinate public consultation, and prepare an HLF bid. Plincke then went on to develop detailed design proposals, coordinate listed building and planning consents, and to act as lead consultants for the implementation stages.

The gardens at Hill Close exemplify a once-common landscape typology, the Detached Pleasure Garden, and are now the only publicly accessible gardens of this type. Hill Close originates from the early Victorian period and comprises a series of garden plots that were rented for both pleasure and amenity purposes. The restoration of Hill Close Gardens forms part of a wider strategy to form a sequence of publicly accessible town gardens throughout Warwick,