LANDSCAPE DESIGN · Upper North Shore
Landscape Design in Gordon
For more than twenty years we have designed and built gardens across Sydney’s North Shore, and landscape design in Gordon is work we know well. It is a leafy, established suburb of family homes on generous blocks, many bordering bushland and carrying significant trees, where the brief is usually a considered family garden that connects to the house and sits comfortably among the canopy.
As your project gets started, we set up a meeting to understand your needs and the space you’re working with. We talk through ideas and materials, and draw on our past projects to see how they might fit your home. After that meeting we send over a quick questionnaire for you to complete. The questionnaire, together with the insights gathered from our initial conversation, forms the foundation of a comprehensive project overview tailored to your new garden.
With experience within and around Gordon, our understanding of the area is extensive. Our collection of projects and our experience let us confidently create garden designs and build landscapes of various forms, from a single considered courtyard through to a full garden, pool and entertaining area. If you have a question about our services or your own project, call us on 1300 460 690.
- TYPICAL BLOCK Large, leafy, sloping
- COUNCIL Ku-ring-gai Council
- KEY OVERLAY Tree canopy LEP + bushland edges
Why Gordon is different
Gordon sits in the heart of the Upper North Shore, and its gardens reflect a green, bushland-edged setting. Blocks are large but often slope and back onto reserves, so retaining, tree protection and bushfire considerations shape the brief as much as the garden itself. Ku-ring-gai’s Local Environmental Plan is built to protect the canopy, so a good design works with the existing trees rather than around a removal that may not be approved, and planting is chosen to blend into the bushland rather than compete with it.
Services in Gordon
Having completed projects across the North Shore, we understand the Gordon brief, from pools and entertaining terraces through to lawns, bushland-edge planting and full landscape builds on large, treed blocks. Our team includes landscape architects, project managers, pool builders, structural landscapers and horticulturalists, so a project moves from concept to a finished, planted garden without being handed between separate businesses.
Gordon council & site notes
Ku-ring-gai Council
Gordon is within the Ku-ring-gai Council area, which runs one of the strictest tree-canopy LEPs on the North Shore. Canopy cover targets shape where a pool, deck or driveway can go before DA stage, and removing a significant tree without approval risks real penalties. Blocks bordering reserves can be bushfire-mapped, which affects materials and clearances, and larger structures or pools may need a development application. We factor this in during design and can prepare the documentation council requires.
Gordon FAQs
It depends on the scope. Gordon sits within Ku-ring-gai Council, which runs one of the strictest tree-canopy LEPs on the North Shore. Some works proceed as exempt or complying development, while larger structures and pools may need a development application. We resolve these constraints during design and can prepare the documentation council requires.
More than most people expect. Canopy cover targets shape where a pool, deck or driveway can sit well before DA stage, so siting gets settled early rather than reworked later. Removing a significant tree without approval carries real penalties, so a good design works with the existing trees rather than banking on a removal that may not be approved.
Yes, in two ways. Blocks bordering reserves can be bushfire-mapped, which affects material choices and clearances around the house and any structures. Planting is also chosen to blend into the bushland rather than compete with it, so the garden reads as part of the setting rather than imposed on it.
Gordon blocks are generous but often carry a real fall, so retaining and levels shape the brief as much as the planting does. The approach is to work with the existing levels and use terracing to create usable flat areas for lawn, a terrace or a pool, keeping earthworks and tree impact to a minimum.
Yes. Our team includes landscape architects, project managers, pool builders, structural landscapers and horticulturalists, so a project runs from concept through to a finished, planted garden without being handed between separate businesses. We work at any scale, from a single considered courtyard through to a full garden, pool and entertaining area.
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