strategists, visionaries, designers, collaborators, place makers.
The city can be an unyielding place with few places to sit and enjoy the sun.
Urban Wilderness is a landscape design and environmental consultancy based in Leeds and Sheffield. We are a close-knit team of Landscape Architects, Masterplanners and Urban Designers, offering our clients a wide range of services. We design at all levels from large open spaces and new settlements to individual gardens and play spaces.
As our name suggests, we specialise in bringing the best of the world beyond the town into the urban environment. Similarly the more ‘natural’ systems of the countryside require sensitive design and management to successfully incorporate new development into existing spatial strategies, land uses and habitats. Every space has its own merits and we strive to embrace these to produce designs which are sensitive to their context and character.
We help to physically shape our environment and the way in which we experience it.
York
Urban Wilderness were commissioned to work with McArthurGlen to develop a new, temporary garden for the Bloom! Festival in York; “A fun floral festival celebrating 250 years of the Ancient Society of…
More info on Bloom! St. Helen’s Moorish Stitch Take a look at our projectsNorth York Moors National Park
Working for the Benedictine community of nuns who had moved north from Worcestershire, Urban Wilderness produced landscape proposals from concept through to construction for the nuns’ new monastery in Yorkshire. With Fielden…
More info on Stanbrook Abbey, Wass, North York Moors National Park Take a look at our projectsChester
This garden created for Chester Zoo's Wild Worlds Festival (summer 2018), seeks to reveal the often hidden conservation work of Chester Zoo. It is inspired by the Zoo’s work to better…
More info on Dormouse Garden Take a look at our projectsLeicestershire
South Loughborough comprises of a 49 hectare site which has been carefully designed to positively address potential issues relating to its edge of settlement location and the gap between Loughborough and…
More info on South Loughborough Take a look at our projectsHarrogate
Situated in the hills over the Crimple Valley, west of Harrogate, and lying within a Special Landscape Area, this Paragraph 79 house required a sensitive but imaginative design in order to…
More info on Hill Top Lane Take a look at our projectsNottingham City Centre
A well designed landscape can foster a feeling of belonging, a recognisable identity, a community focus and a sense of place. These factors form part of both Nottingham Trent University’s (NTU)…
More info on Greening The City Strategy, Nottingham Trent University Take a look at our projectsPreston
This project saw Urban Wilderness provide a range of consultancy services to Preston City Council, to help deliver the historic restoration of this much-loved and well-used heritage asset on the banks…
More info on Avenham and Miller Parks Take a look at our projectsBrackenhurst, Southwell
In order to realise the Nottingham Trent University’s goal of improving student experience, its wider public image and its standing within the National Student Survey, a ‘Landscape Strategy’ has been developed…
More info on NTU, Brackenhurst Campus Take a look at our projectsBarnburgh
A full planning application for a landscape-led scheme within a section of the former Dearne Valley Railway cutting. The landowner has an obligation to undertake essential engineering works to a road…
More info on Railway Reclamation Park, Doncaster Take a look at our projectsWirksworth
The project brief was to create a flexible space that could be used for the town's Saturday markets whilst maintaining the peace and tranquility of a memorial garden. It was important from…
More info on Wirksworth Memorial Garden and Market Square Take a look at our projectsPortugal
Working in collaboration with Munro+Whitten (based in Leicester), Urban Wilderness won the Delegates Choice Award for the Lisbon University Design Ideas Competition. The competition formed part of the Landscapes and Life…
More info on Lisbon University Take a look at our projectsNottingham City Centre
Following the success of our 'Greening the City Strategy' developed with Nottingham Trent University's Estates Team (NTU), Goldsmith Gateway was identified as one of the site's within the City campus in…
More info on Goldsmith Gateway Take a look at our projectsYork
Urban Wilderness were commissioned to assess the landscape surrounding the Designer Outlet to the south of York and to put forward a strategy of public realm improvements that would unify and…
More info on Designer Outlet York Take a look at our projectsCarnforth
Urban Wilderness provided landscape strategy and masterplanning consultancy to help integrate a proposed residential development area, new nature reserve and extensive public open space and all within the sensitive landscape of…
More info on Carnforth Residential Development Take a look at our projectsHow do you create a new edge of settlement neighbourhood without changing the landscape setting of a town? We were appointed to produce a masterplan and vision document for this challenging…
More info on Shepherd’s Green, Ibstock Take a look at our projectsLiverpool
Urban Wilderness was commissioned by Industrial Workshop Pall Mall Ltd, to undertake a Visual Impact Assessment (VIA) for the final phase of development on a proposed 1.07 Ha mixed use development…
More info on Pall Mall Take a look at our projectsBrackenhurst, Southwell
This project included the detailed hard and soft landscape design for a new signature building within Nottingham Trent University's Brackenhurst Campus. the landscape sought to integrate the new building into an…
More info on Reception and Environment Centre, Brackenhurst Campus Take a look at our projectsTameside
The project seeks to promote the Matley Lane site as a sustainable location for new residential development. The site provides an opportunity to extend the existing residential community - to develop…
More info on Matley Lane, Tameside, Manchester Take a look at our projectsNottingham
Urban Wilderness was commissioned to provide planning support, followed by the detailed design of external spaces for a new Language, Music and Drama building within the existing school complex. The design…
More info on Rushcliffe School Take a look at our projectsTanglewood
The landscape proposals for this large contemporary house build consist of a series of “garden rooms” created to facilitate a continual living experience between the internal rooms and the outside garden.…
More info on Garden Design, Cambridge Take a look at our projectsGrayshott, East Hampshire
From its humble beginnings as a small farm shop and restaurant, we worked with Big Apple Ventures to develop proposals to diversify the site into a visitor destination and rural employment…
More info on Applegarth Farm, Hampshire Take a look at our projectsWarwick
A residential scheme designed around a green infrastructure framework, comprising of a number of pocket parks, equipped children’s play spaces and a new country park. The scheme has been sensitively designed…
More info on Loes Farm, Warwick Take a look at our projectsBristol
This project brief was to create a contemporary and functional outdoor space for a growing family. The design intended to have a modernist feel with the use of bespoke items including…
More info on Private Garden, Bristol Take a look at our projectsGrantham
Harrowby Lane is a community-focused residential masterplanning project that seeks to focus pedestrian activity within the centre of the scheme whilst effectively integrating the development with the surrounding amenity assets and…
More info on Harrowby Lane Take a look at our projectsPagham
Working on behalf of Hallam Land Management Ltd, alongside LRM Planning and Brookbanks Consulting, Urban Wilderness designed and submitted proposals for a new mixed use scheme for up to 300 houses,…
More info on Hook Lane Take a look at our projectsStratford-Upon-Avon
One's sense of arrival to Anne Hathaway's Cottage in Stratford-upon Avon, was central to this project. People visiting the Cottage often pass by and view the cottage from the public highway,…
More info on Anne Hathaway’s Cottage Take a look at our projectsLiverpool
Recently completed landscape project which visually lifts the approach to the Health and Safety Executive's headquarters in Bootle, Liverpool. New planted mounds, featuring semi-mature tree and ornamental shrub planting and uplighting are…
More info on North Entrance, HSE Headquarters, Liverpool Take a look at our projects“Urban Wilderness are thoughtful, engaging and creative masterplanners who understand the balance required for commercial viability and effective place-making” Ruth McKeown, - Director, Hallam Land Management Ltd (2018)