The clients wanted their rear garden to provide a safe play space for their young children as well as a social space for them and their family and friends. They were also keen to have some wildlife friendly planting. They wanted their front garden to look good and provide storage space for their bins and bicycles.

Elaine worked with former colleague Stuart Taylor to devise a plan that kept within the clients modest budget but created a social and safe play space within the garden with an ornamental, wildlife friendly and easily maintained planting in raised beds and a living roof on a new storage shed.