Early 2016 the first residents moved into the Leyhoeve. The building consists of 200 standard apartments and 85 so-called ‘medical suites’. The development and construction took almost 10 years in total.
On the outdoor terrain a gabion wall stacked with old bricks reminds us of the monastery walls that surround the residential landscape. Within these gabion walls the flower and vegetable gardens, grassland for animals, fruit tree orchard for own supply (e.g.. Malus and Pyrus varieties) are situated. Natural banks and water channels are developed for water storage. The terrain is divided into smaller areas, each having their own characteristics and function. They are linked to each other through a runner and are surrounded by 20 golden honey locust trees(Gleditsia triacanthos ‘Sunburst’).
Boomkwekerij Udenhout was responsible for supplying the golden honey locust and fruit trees, as well as several red sycamores (Acer rubrum ‘Autumn Flame’), silver lime trees (Tilia tomentosa ‘Brabant’), multistemmed Chinese red birches (Betula albosinensis ‘Fascination‘), specimen Magnolias (Magnolia loebneri ‘Merrill‘) and Chinese dogwood trees (Cornus kousa chinensis) with an high ornamental value.
