Our Playground & Landscaping Projects

Brockwell Park, Wick

Gloucestershire, 2026

Wick and Abson Parish Council in South Gloucestershire invited us to transform their popular park. We designed as a focal point a handsome Galleon with lots of ups and downs, moored alongside a large spiders web. We also built an agility trail and a twin tower play structure for smaller children.

We and the villagers are over the moon. Again, thank you to you and the team, it's amazing.

Wick & Abson Parish Council , Brockwell Park, Gloucestershire

The Ranch, Southmead's Adventure Playground

Bristol

We were invited to build a fun and attractive raised platform amongst the trees for younger children. In addition to the slide, nets and ramps, there's room for the addition of more ascents and descents in the future. We have also repaired several items of their original equipment and installed a fat rope swing, monkey bars and more.

Worked with this team over various assignments that included time critical and valuable work for our children’s trust. They are very inventive with design and also know their stuff compliance wise. Their quality of build is very good and they are easy and friendly to deal with. I would use them again if I am working on similar projects.

Katy Miller , Southmead Development Trust

Callicroft Primary Academy

Bristol

We designed and built a large playground shelter which will double as an outdoor classroom. We also supplied a new agility trail and tepee for Key Stage 1 but usable by KS2 children, along with a junior tower, monkey bars and a traversing wall.

Charlton Farm Children's Hospice

Somerset, 2026

We won the contract to create a new play and sensory space for this Somerset hospice. After several design permutations we settled on a farm theme and installed a life size play tractor, shepherd’s hut shelter and several items of wheelchair accessible play equipment. We also created some colourful pollinator haven flower beds in this lovely countryside location.

Snapdragons Nursery

Weston Road, Bath

Following repair works to play equipment at two Snapdragons childrens’ nurseries, we were commissioned to design and build a mini adventure space at their terrific Weston Road site, along with a pretty shingle-roof hut.

Weston Rec Woodland Trail

Bath, 2026

Active Weston, a community group in Bath, invited us to design a woodland trail for all ages through a small wood at the top of the rec. We built a mix of wonky beams, monkey bars, stepping logs, a vertical net and swing rope, all in the wettest conditions you couldn't hope for. Hence the photos show it under mud!

Chris and the team have done a great job in creating and installing our woodland trail. The whole thing was well designed, well planned, and installed in difficult conditions (rain, mud) with perfect results. Children of all ages love it (and a few adults too!) Thank you.

Peter Heywood , Active Weston (March 2026)

Stoke Lodge Primary

Bristol

The school PTA invited us to build a canopy that could shield a whole class from the sun and rain - an outdoor classroom effectively. Despite a tight budget we managed to exceed expectations with this cable drum and S-shaped bench design anchored deep into the tarmac surface, and also a pretty little buddy hut.

We all LOVE the shelter and seating - the children have been using it every day this week.

Will Ferris , School Head, Stoke Lodge Primary

Redcliffe Children's Centre

Bristol

This popular city centre nursery has a great mix of structured and free play. The centrepiece is a pair of tree platforms linked by a rope bridge. We created this play structure as the centre piece of a larger project with a bike track. There’s an artificial grass mound and tunnel, living walls, mud and sand play, rubber surfacing and other play equipment. This platform has a shop window below. The cut out leaf shapes have coloured acrylic which project autumn colours inside the space when it’s sunny.

Chris has recently built a majestic cedar shingled roof for the sandpit at our nursery school. Not only does it look beautiful, and remind our children of the barn at Leigh Woods, it will be great in all weathers. Chris has also done plenty of other work for us, including a full playground redevelopment and is always on hand to support with maintenance and upkeep. We’re pleased with the quality and value for money that Monkey Business provides.

Sam , Head of Redcliffe Nursery School

Hortham Play Park

South Gloucestershire

Despite limited space and budget, we managed to squeeze a lot of play features into this public park. Swings, monkey bars, a grass mound and tunnel linked by bridges to a pair of platforms and a balance trail.

Kingswood Prep School

Bath

We were asked to design and build a handsome tower with various ups and downs, including monkey bars and a double slide.

Maiden Beech Primary

Crewkerne, Somerset

A large hexagonal platform built around a lovely tree links by a wobbly bridge to a second platform with a few ways up and down and the option to add more in the future. A large grassed mound has a slide and wonky balance log, tunnel and playground telephone.

Thank you for all the hard work you and your team have put into our outdoor area. I know it has been challenging due to the seasonal weather experienced. We are all very excited to have the children on the play area you have created.

Maiden Beech Academy , Crewkerne

St Peter & Paul's School

Bristol

SSPP was one of our earliest schools and we delighted ourselves and the school community with a large tree platform, two stages (one of them chair accessible), a small Larch climbing frame and a pergola festooned with hanging baskets. Almost all of the timber was sourced from Somerset.

The Garden Doctor provided an excellent service; he and his trusty team of one transformed a muddy disused bank area under a large elm tree in our school grounds. The design was original, creative and fantastic value for money (we had previously had quotes from various companies which were really expensive and no one seemed to have the vision that Chris had). I can fully recommend this company without reservation.

Joan Sutcliffe , Head, SS Peter & Paul Catholic School, Bristol (2012)

Merebrook Primary Barn

Worcestershire

Merebrook Primary barn was renovated by us alongside some landscaping work for their Forest School.

Family Tree House

South Gloucestershire

We were commissioned to build a fun grandchildren’s tree house which also had to look fab. Includes beam bridge, floor hatch, Larch cladding, Cedar shingle roof and stained glass windows.

Birdwell School Play Huts

Long Ashton, Somerset, 2017

A pair of timber play huts with cedar shingle roofs, built for the whole school to use at play times. They give the children somewhere of their own to be creative, and they sit alongside the school’s existing outside facilities rather than competing with them.

The play huts are another resource which allows the children to be creative at play times whilst complementing our already extensive outside facilities. We are also delighted to secure funding for a Pre-School which will provide much needed places for 3 year olds in our local community.

Paul Sainsbury , Head Teacher, Birdwell School, Long Ashton (2017)

Play Houses, Huts & Shelters

Across the South West

Everything we design and build is original and solidly made. Big on character, play value and value for money. Low on enviro footprint. Fancy your own tropical cabana, jungle tree house, wonky cottage or your own home in miniature? How about a charming little town with a mill, blacksmith, baker etc for your museum play area? Our imaginations are the limit.

Pergolas & Swing Projects

Bristol & Bath

Handmade timber pergolas and swing frames for private gardens, schools and parks, built in durable Larch and Oak and designed to suit the space they sit in.

Chris and his team are expert in their field. From listening to our requirements, feedback, planning and the final agreed structures. Half of our garden has been transformed into a play area for a very special little granddaughter to enjoy... but her grandparents love it too.

Robert Brown , Bristol (2025)

Mill House

Somerset

Mill House in Somerset is a pretty home with an old mill stream running alongside. The customer wanted to replace a rotting deck with a larger structure to include a bridge over the stream to give better garden access. We had a terrific time building this large Accoya deck for a lovely Somerset couple at their old mill home. The deck features a glazed skylight and rainproof cladding to make the space below useable in all weather. And there’s a bridge over the stream to a small BBQ platform and stairs into the garden.

• Use of Accoya deckboards, chemical and heat treated timber that has a 50 year guarantee, for uncompromising durability.
• Waterproofing of the dining space below the deck using polycarbonate sheeting.
• Addition of skylights for better lighting below deck.
• Beautiful Somerset Larch for the frame and balustrade with stainless steel cabling.
• A small bbq platform over the bridge and a log bench below.

We just got back from hols last night and it was fantastic to come back to the balcony finished and looking so brilliant. We had a good look round it and we are so delighted with how it has come out. We are really really happy with everything and so grateful to you and your team for all your hard work!

Anna S , Mill House, Somerset

Manor Road Community Woodland Boardwalk

Bath & North East Somerset

A boardwalk replacement for Bath and North East Somerset Council’s Parks department, completed to budget and to time, improving accessibility around a much loved local greenspace.

We are very happy with the finished boardwalk, which was completed to budget and time, and will improve accessibility around this much loved greenspace for the local community. Chris was enthusiastic and personable from the initial kick off call all the way through to project completion. Monkey Business were a pleasure to work with.

Correne Murray , Bath & North East Somerset Council (2024)

Bridge Renovation, Royal Victoria Park

Bath

A renovation of the bridge in Royal Victoria Park, Bath. We replaced the balustrades in durable timber, turned to match the original profile and fixed back to the existing stone piers, keeping the character of the structure while making it safe for park visitors again.

Park Bench Restoration

Bristol & the South West

We restore cast iron and timber park benches for local authorities: stripping and repainting the frames, replacing the timber slats and reinstalling them on new foundations. It is steady work we do a lot of, and it keeps handsome old street furniture in service rather than replacing it.

Your Park Social Seating

Bristol & Bath

Bespoke social seating areas built for Your Park Bristol & Bath, part of a project to improve park facilities for teenage girls. The build involved significant logistics to bring large tree sections on site.

Chris designed and built several bespoke social seating areas for our project to improve facilities in parks for teenage girls. He and the team were responsive, undertook big logistical work to get large trees on site and finished the new seating areas to high standard. We - and teenage girls - are very pleased with the results.

Charlie , Your Park, Bristol & Bath (2025)

Private Garden Landscaping

Bristol & Somerset

Terraces, paving, planting, decks and level changes for private gardens, using lower impact materials and reusing as much of the existing site as we can.

Chris and his team (@Monkey Business) did a fantastic job for my garden. The team provides professional advice/design not only to fulfill our thought and expectations, also using their specific skillset to minimise the impact on the environment (i.e., minimise the waste and reuse all possible material). I strongly recommend Monkey Business design.

Wing Lun Mok , Bristol (2023)

The Spinney

Bristol

Lawn seeding and all season colour herbaceous beds, hedge planting.

Blue Lodge Wildlife Pond

South Gloucestershire

A wildlife pond and wildflower area designed and dug from scratch, photographed one year on with established marginal planting and a meadow edge teeming with insect life.

We now have a wonderful wildlife pond and wild flower area that is teeming with insect life. Thank you!

Rupert Barrington , Pond customer, South Gloucestershire (2024)

Jonny's Pond

Somerset

A large wildlife pond built into a sloping field, with shallow sloping edges and planting ledges so the pond is safe as well as rich in habitat.

Kingswood Pond Deck

Bath

A timber pond deck and dipping platform built to give school groups safe, close access to the water for wildlife study.

Wildflower Meadows & Tree Planting

Bristol, Bath & South Gloucestershire

Wildflower seeding, turfing and maintenance, plus hedge and tree planting schemes, designed so that new habitat establishes properly rather than reverting to weeds.

Other Structures & Models

Workshop & site builds

Here are some more of the structures we have made, renovated or dreamt up. Our skilled team of designers and carpenters are up for a challenge, big or small.