So now, instead of just leaving the retaining wall to allow a garden sloping down to the front, TL1 has turned it into three stepped garden beds, and leveled a single-stepped bath down the bottom (ready for pebble and stepping stone):
We'll now move the gate (which is currently where photo is taken from) down to behind the water tank you can see, and put some steps down to the new "path". This'll make the area more accessible, move the gate from where it can be seen from the atrium, make it more attractive (once planted - must find recommendations for plants okay with no-to-little light in winter), and just generally stop it from being a "dead" unused area of the yard.
It's coming along.
Cheers,
Marc