Planning School Outdoor Environments
A planning guide for school leadership teams.
Twenty-one pages of planning principles drawn from more than 35 years working with schools. Written for leadership teams deciding what the school needs before deciding what to build, so the thinking is done before funding or urgency arrives.
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This guide is designed to help your school decide what it needs before deciding what to build.
Schools are often required to make outdoor investment decisions quickly.
Funding can become available unexpectedly, budgets may need to be committed within a short timeframe, or an ageing area may suddenly become a priority.
The purpose of this guide is to help schools do the thinking before that urgency arrives.
By understanding how your current outdoor environment is being used, identifying what students may be missing out, clarifying the outcomes that matter most and establishing project priorities in advance, your school is better prepared to act when an opportunity arises.
You do not need every future project designed.
You need a clear understanding of what should come next, why it matters and what level of investment may be required.
This guide shares practical planning principles developed from more than 35 years of working with schools, to help leadership teams, staff, students and school communities make more considered outdoor environment decisions.
Plan early. Be ready when opportunity arrives.
Every school has its own culture, priorities and aspirations.
Planning outdoor environments means balancing educational outcomes, student wellbeing, community expectations, available funding, compliance and long-term priorities.
No one understands your students or your school community better than the people who lead and experience it every day.
Our expertise is different.
For more than 35 years, Urban Landscape Projects has worked alongside schools to plan and deliver outdoor environments. During that time, we have seen what works, where projects become difficult and what consistently leads to better long-term outcomes.
One lesson stands above the others:
Stop planning individual projects.
Start planning the outcomes your school wants to achieve.
The purpose of this guide is to help schools ask better questions before design and construction begin.
Because when funding, opportunity or urgency arrives, the most valuable thing a school can already have is clarity.
Good planning doesn’t remove urgency. It makes your school ready for it.
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