Our Design Values
At Urban Landscape Projects (ULP), we believe outdoor environments should be more than functional – they should inspire play, learning, and community connections. Since 1990, we have specialised in educational and community landscapes, with a reputation for balancing creativity, safety, and sustainability.
Our play spaces are designed as suburban sanctuaries – places where children can explore, experiment, and grow. We are mindful of the five senses, ensuring children can touch, smell, listen, see, and engage with nature in meaningful ways.
Inspired by the Reggio Emilia philosophy, our landscapes encourage open-ended, child-led play. We integrate lighting and seating for parents and wider social gatherings, transforming every project into a lifelong landscape that supports education and play side-by-side.
Our play spaces are designed as suburban sanctuaries – places where children can explore, experiment, and grow. We are mindful of the five senses, ensuring children can touch, smell, listen, see, and engage with nature in meaningful ways.
Inspired by the Reggio Emilia philosophy, our landscapes encourage open-ended, child-led play. We integrate lighting and seating for parents and wider social gatherings, transforming every project into a lifelong landscape that supports education and play side-by-side.
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Design Delivery Team
Our design team are passionate advocate for learning through play. They understand that the early years are some of the most formative stages of life, where children develop socially, physically, and emotionally. Outdoor plays is not just recreation – it is creitical driver of learning, wellbeing, and development.
- Learning through play: Research consistently shows that children learning best when they can play freely. Through play, children build resilience, social skills, problem-solving abilities, and creativity. ULP's designs actively support these outcomes by embedding opportunities for exploration, challenge, and discovery in every project.
- Creating meaningful environments: Our designers know that their work is not just about layouts and materials - it's about shaping environments that nurture childhood experiences and provide spaces where learning and play come together. Every pathway, garden, and play element is placed with purpose, contributing to a child's development and a community's sense of place
Outdoor Play Spaces for Childcare Centres in Sydney
- Design & Construct for Childcare Centres in Sydney: Complete engagement, planning, custom design, build, and organisational support, connecting your team, families, and business goals to the finished result.
- Childcare Landscape Design Services in Sydney: Dedicated design offerings for grant applications, fit-outs, or upgrades, focused on early years playground safety, consultation with centre management, and true visual and operational identity.
- Playground and Outdoor Space Construction for Childcare Centres: All builds are managed by licensed teams, using quality natural and synthetic materials to promote low-maintenance planting and everyday reliability.
- Maintenance for Childcare Landscape Projects: Ongoing support and maintenance for childcare landscapes on all Urban Landscape Projects-built environments, so spaces stay safe, compliant, and ready for use.
George Adams
Company Director / Design Director
Milva Petrini
Design Manager
Oliver Reeve
Landscape Designer
Felix Affable
Landscape Designer
Alyzza Surio
Landscape Arch.
Experienced, professional expertise
Our design team has been shaping educational landscapes for over three decades, with multiple state and national awards recognising our contribution to play and learning environments.
- Compliance & credibility – More than 30 years of operational history and a proven record of award-winning designs.
- Community focus – Engaging with educators, children, councils, and families to co-create meaningful solutions.
- Compliance knowledge – Designs meet Australian Playground Safety Standards, Departmental Standards, and Career Council guidelines.
- Buildable outcomes – Construction input is integrated into design, ensuring cost accuracy and construction feasibility.
- Projects solving approach – Designs stay aligned stages/aligned inside project processed through contin sustainability standardized
Qualified Designers and Architects
Our projects are designed by qualified Landscape Architects and Landscape Designers, all with specialist knowledge of schools, childcare centres, and public environments. Their expertise combine creative vision with technical rigour, ensuring landscapes are not only inspiring but also compliant, practical, and enduring.
The ULP Design Promise
Every ULP design is creative, functional, safe, and realistic. By working closely with our construction team, we ensure that every plan can be delivered efficiently, on time, and to the highest standard.
Our landscapes are not just drawing – they are well-considered, buildable visions that create lasting value for children, educators, and communities
Our landscapes are not just drawing – they are well-considered, buildable visions that create lasting value for children, educators, and communities
The benifits of a Landscape Design and Construction package:
The most powerful results come when ULP designs and builds your project from start to finish. By packaging both services together, you gain efficiency, accountability, and certainty.
Why choose the combined process?
Why choose the combined process?
- One team, one vision – The people who design your project are the same people who build it, ensuring no details are lost in translation.
- Time savings – No back-and-forth miscommunication and decision-making cut delays and simplify the process.
- Cost certainty – Budgets are set early, with accurate costings from our construction team during design. No surprises, no hidden extras.
- True accountability – With one team managing both design and construction, there's no finger pointing. We take full responsibility for the final outcome.
- Professionalism – We integrate design into construction, ensuring the vision is maintained and all outputs are aligned as achievable.
- Access to insights – Accurate builds are determined via the design intent and built with practicality informed by close collaboration.
- A clear client experience – Regular meetings, progress reports, and a single point of contact make the process simpler and transparent.
By combining Design & Construction, ULP offers a turnkey solution that is easier, faster, and more professional. With this service, you eliminate stress and maximise results. “We make it easy.”