LANDSCAPE DESIGN · Upper North Shore
Landscape Design in Warrawee
For more than twenty years we have designed and built gardens across Sydney’s North Shore, and landscape design in Warrawee is work we know well. It is a leafy, established suburb of large family homes on generous blocks, many with significant trees and heritage character, 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 Warrawee, 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, gentle fall
- COUNCIL Ku-ring-gai Council
- KEY OVERLAY Tree canopy LEP + heritage
Why Warrawee is different
Warrawee is one of the most prestigious, tightly held pockets of the Upper North Shore, with grand period homes on deep, wide blocks and some of the most heritage-rich streets in Ku-ring-gai. That setting rewards proportion, quality materials and planting with real structure and longevity, and it puts tree protection and heritage character at the centre of any landscape design in Warrawee. 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.
Services in Warrawee
Having completed projects across the North Shore, we understand the Warrawee brief, from pools and entertaining terraces through to lawns, hedging 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.
Warrawee council & site notes
Ku-ring-gai Council
Warrawee 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. Heritage conservation areas cover many Warrawee streets, so pools, terraces and front gardens are sited with those constraints resolved before design, not after. We factor this in during design and can prepare the documentation council requires.
Warrawee FAQs
Every Warrawee garden is priced to the site rather than a standard rate, because block size, existing trees, heritage constraints and access all shift the scope. A single considered courtyard sits at one end and a full garden with pool, terracing and structured planting at the other. After our initial meeting and questionnaire we prepare a project overview so you can see the likely investment before design work begins. Call us on 1300 460 690 to talk through your block.
Some work is exempt or complying development, but between Ku-ring-gai's canopy cover targets and the heritage conservation areas covering many Warrawee streets, most substantial projects intersect with approval somewhere. Pools, larger terraces, retaining and front garden changes commonly require a development application. We resolve this during design and can prepare the documentation council requires.
Heritage listing shapes what happens in the front garden in particular, including fencing, driveways, paving materials and the setting of the house from the street. It rarely restricts the rear garden as tightly, but siting a pool or terrace still needs those constraints resolved before the design is locked in rather than after. Quality materials and proportion tend to satisfy both council and the house itself.
Not without checking first. Ku-ring-gai runs one of the strictest tree canopy LEPs on the North Shore and removing a significant tree without approval risks real penalties. We design with the existing trees rather than around a removal that may never be granted, and on a Warrawee block those mature trees are usually the best thing the garden has going for it.
Warrawee rewards proportion, quality materials and planting with real structure and longevity, so hedging, considered lawn shapes, stone and generous entertaining terraces tend to sit better than anything overly of the moment. The aim is a garden that reads as though it has always belonged to the house, whether the interiors are traditional or have been renovated contemporary.
Siting is a question of catching sun and connecting to the house without opening a canopy clearing large enough to trigger a tree removal application, and without conflicting with heritage constraints. Deep, wide Warrawee blocks usually offer several workable positions, and we test them against light, levels, the existing trees and the entertaining terrace before settling on one.
Yes. Most Warrawee blocks carry a gentle fall rather than a steep grade, which suits terracing, low retaining and level changes that create distinct areas for lawn, pool and dining without heavy engineering. Structural landscaping is handled in house, so the levels and the finished garden are designed together.
Yes. Our team includes landscape architects, project managers, pool builders, structural landscapers and horticulturalists, so a Warrawee project moves from concept through to a finished, planted garden without being handed between separate businesses.
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