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Green Roof Shelters Ltd.

Est

2009

Bird hide with narrow look out slots. Built as a steel frame with planted roof.
Mesh clad storage shelter with growing roof and haitat panels fixed to the mesh sides.

Award-winning

2025 Finalist - Innovation Award and Biodiversity and Nature Award, Unlock Net Zero 
2024 Finalist - Multi Benefits Award - and Innovation Award - CIRIA BIG Biodiversity Challenge 
2024 Finalist - Biodiversity and Nature Award, Unlock Net Zero - Development projects
Winners - CIRIA BIG Biodiversity Challenge 2018 - Innovation Award 
Winners - Green Roof Shelters - 1st Place - CIBSE  Green Infrastructure Design Challenge - EcoBuild 2018

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We deliver a building and
wildlife habitat all in one.
Cycle parking with a green roof on a steel frame. Open fronted with habitat panels on the back and sides.
Green roof shelter wheelie bin store. Crushed brick and drilled log habitat gabions on the ends.

“Green Roof Shelters came up with the idea that you can incorporate habitat and biodiversity into the everyday structures that we use all around us, in a way that is successful, totally functional, and very beautiful. They pioneered the idea, and still lead the field.”
– Nigel Dunnet 

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Wildlife and nature, people and place.

Green Roof Shelters Ltd brings together some of the foremost experts in green roofs planted for biodiversity, designing habitat creation and low maintenance native and climate-change planting for wildlife, alongside designers experienced in producing buildings, structures, and retrofit products that enhance our environment. We have associations with ecologists, entomologists, academics, and plants-people.

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An Ikea store with green roof shelter cycle parking outside. Plants growing on the roofs of the shelters and habitat on the back and sides.
Green roof bike shelters

For covered cycle parking, green roofed bike shelters with wildlife habitat incorporated.

A genuine green roofed solution to bikeparking.

Round logs end grain on held in need galvenised mesh. The logs have holes drilled in them to create habitat for solitary bees.
Biodiversity and sustainable materials

At Green Roof Shelters what drives us is the wildlife around us; our green roof planting and habitat creation is designed to enrich an area or structure with biological diversity.

Larch clad binstore with slots in the doors for rubbish. Plants growing in the green roof above and habitat panels on the en of the shelters.
Green roof bin shelters

Green Roofed Bin Shelters create tidy collection points for refuse or recycled materials, and new opportunities for enhancing local bio-diversity.

A solitary bee standing on a yellow flower.
Featured plants

Our green roofed shelters come planted with seed mixes and plug plants. We also include some potted plants for instant colour and to signal more is to come!
– Page Coming Soon.

A drawing in black of a Black Lark, a bird now found in the british isles.
Related sites

For domestic scale front yard products, DIY guides and more, visit one of our related sites.

Orange coloured poppies growing out of a verge over a roads double yellow lines.
The Poppy Estate

"Most of all though we have learned that all social housing deserves decent green space and the way to get that and keep it is to value the people that look after it."

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