Websites for Sydney landscape construction crews and garden businesses: your NSW structural landscaping licence where clients can check it, finished courtyards, walls and lawns captioned by suburb, and a quote form that takes yard photos and asks which council the job is in.
Someone pricing a new backyard in Sydney is usually weighing up three or four landscapers at once, mostly on a phone and often after dinner. The ones who get a call are those whose site shows, without any digging, that they hold the right licence, do this kind of job, work in this suburb and make the next step easy.
Retaining walls, paving, decks, pergolas and fences count as structural landscaping in NSW, and a residential job of that kind worth more than five thousand dollars needs a contractor licence. If you hold one, its number and category sit in the footer of every page beside a link to the NSW Government's licence check. If you stick to planting, turf and maintenance, the site says so clearly instead.
A couple planning sandstone steps and terraced beds and a strata manager wanting a fortnightly mow for a block of units want different things from you. Each gets its own section, or its own page, with matching photos and its own next step: a site visit for the first, a regular-service enquiry for the second.
A caption like "Sandstone wall and native planting, Mosman" or "Turf and drip irrigation, Kellyville" tells a reader what you build and where you build it. We group the gallery by type of work so it swipes easily on a phone, and new jobs can go up whenever you send photos, because image changes on existing pages come with hosting.
Suburb, rough size of the area, whether the block slopes, whether a bobcat or skip bin can get in, whether there's a pool, and a few photos. Knowing the suburb tells you whose tree and approval rules apply before you spend an hour in traffic getting there.
Under Sydney Water's rules, new turf and new gardens can be watered with drinking water at any time for their first 28 days, as long as nothing runs off onto paths. If your site carries care notes for a new lawn or garden, write them to fit that window and the normal watering hours, and you'll field fewer worried calls in week two.
A crew based in the Hills rarely wants a small planting job in Cronulla. Name the regions and suburbs you cover, and if you'll travel further for larger construction work, say that in a separate line, with a minimum job size if you have one.
A good share of what landscapers build is licensed work in NSW. The NSW Government's description of structural landscaping, drawn from the Home Building Regulation 2014, takes in retaining walls that aren't part of a habitable building; fencing, driveways, paths and paving of any material; cabanas, pergolas, decks and other non-habitable shelters; ornamental ponds and water features where development approval is needed; and concrete tennis courts. A contractor licence is needed to carry out, advertise or contract for residential work of this kind valued at more than five thousand dollars in labour and materials, GST included. Applications go through Service NSW, Building Commission NSW answers questions about them, and the qualifications listed include a Certificate III in Landscape Construction. Advertising carries its own obligations, and the NSW Government's guidance names the internet alongside print, radio and TV. An ad should show the licensee's name or a registered business name, the licence number with the correct category of work, and a business phone number, and it can't quote a price that is only part of the cost unless the single full price is clearly stated as well.
Clients often ask whether a wall or a set of garden steps needs council approval, and the honest answer is that it depends on the block. Some retaining walls and earthworks are exempt development under State policy, but only when they meet its standards. The NSW Planning summary of those standards includes keeping a retaining wall at least 2 m horizontally from any other retaining wall on the site and works at least 40 m from a natural waterbody, staying off heritage items, and in a heritage conservation area, building only in the rear yard. Works also mustn't redirect water or send sediment onto a neighbour's land. Your site doesn't need to reproduce any of that. A line saying you check what approvals a job needs before you quote, with a link to the NSW Planning Portal, tells a client you know the question exists.
Water use is governed by Sydney Water's Water Wise Guidelines, which it describes as mandatory, year-round rules for drinking water across Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains and the Illawarra. Lawns and gardens can be watered before 10am and after 4pm; hand-held hoses need a trigger nozzle; and smart or drip irrigation may run between 10am and 4pm. Turf that has just been laid, and gardens that have just been planted, can be watered at any time for 28 days, following the supplier's or installer's instructions, provided there's no run-off or overspray onto paths and other hard surfaces. Landscapers and commercial nurseries are allowed to water at any time, with sprinklers or other watering systems as well as trigger-nozzle hoses. If you install irrigation, a sentence about setting controllers to suit these rules is worth having.
Tree rules change at each council boundary, and Greater Sydney has 33 local government areas. The City of Sydney, for instance, asks owners to apply for permission before pruning or removing a tree on a home or business property unless an exemption applies, says heritage-listed trees typically need development consent, and needs an application even to cut back a neighbour's overhanging branches. In 10/50 entitlement areas, the Rural Fire Service's clearing scheme allows some clearing near homes without approval, subject to exclusions, and the RFS asks owners to check its online tool on the day. If you remove trees or clear ground for new gardens, say how you confirm what's allowed and who lodges any permit.
Sydney clients describe where they live by region and suburb: the Hills District, the Northern Beaches, the Sutherland Shire, the Inner West, the Eastern Suburbs, Macarthur, and new estates such as Box Hill and Marsden Park in the North West Growth Area. We're an Adelaide team and work with Sydney landscapers by phone and email. One of our Greater Sydney clients is Western Sydney Stump Grinding, a family-owned tree service, so we've already set out a service-area list and urgent call-outs for an outdoor trade in this city.
We haven't built for a Sydney landscaping company yet. These are our two NSW outdoor-trade sites closest to that work: a tree service in Western Sydney and an excavation business on the far south coast that does structural landscaping.
A family-owned tree service working across Western and Greater Sydney, including after-hours emergencies. One page with two quote forms, tap-to-call throughout, customer reviews and a list of the areas it services. Its results are in the case study below.
Visit the WS Stump Grinding site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
Based in South Pambula and working across the Bega Valley on structural landscaping, licensed pool building and earthworks. The one-page site splits the work into three service sections and carries a 42-photo gallery that swipes on a phone, a testimonial carousel and a contact form.
Visit the Tomi's Bobcat site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
“They were very helpful and envisioned exactly what I was wanting for my website. They created the site very promptly and cost efficient.”
★ 5.0 from 33 Google reviews (opens in a new tab)
Want numbers from a trade site? Western Sydney Stump Grinding has landed at least 62 jobs, about $46,500 of work, from a single-page site we built. Read the case study.
See all 14 recent client sites in our portfolio.
$399
Licence details, services, a gallery grouped by type of job, the regions you cover and a quote form that takes photos, on a single page. Suits a maintenance round or a small crew that mostly works from referrals.
Our suggestion for construction-led landscapers
$899
A home page, a landscape construction page with its own project gallery, and a garden maintenance page, each with the enquiry form that suits that kind of work.
$1,499
Separate pages for walls and paving, decks and pergolas, turf and irrigation, and planting and upkeep, plus a projects page, an about page with your licence, and a page for each part of Sydney you cover.
Yes. We're a web design team based in Adelaide, South Australia, working with businesses Australia-wide by phone and email, and our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. We don't visit job sites. You send photos, your list of services and your licence details; we send a draft link to check on your phone, and you pay only once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
If you advertise structural landscaping, such as walls, paving, decks, pergolas or fences, for residential jobs above the licensing threshold, NSW's building advertising rules cover your website: the licensee's name or registered business name, the licence number with the right category, and a business phone number. If you only do soft landscaping and maintenance, describe exactly what you do so the site doesn't advertise work your licence doesn't cover. Check the NSW Government's guidance against your own situation and we'll word the site to match.
For regular work such as a fortnightly mow, a starting price can help people decide. For construction, most landscapers explain how quoting works instead: a site visit, a written quote, and what the quote covers. If you do show a price, NSW's advertising guidance says it can't be only part of the cost unless the single full price is also clearly stated.
Yes. The quote form can take photos of the yard and, if the client has them, a landscape plan or survey, along with the suburb, the rough size of the area, the slope and the access. It arrives in your inbox, so you can think about machinery and materials before the site visit.
If first gardens, turf and fencing for new homes in places like Box Hill or Marsden Park are work you want, yes: name them and show a job or two from there. If you mostly rework gardens in established suburbs, say that instead. Updating the area list later is a text change on an existing page, covered by the $30 monthly hosting.
Send us your licence number if you hold one, the parts of Sydney you work in and a dozen photos of finished jobs. We'll quote first, then build the draft, and you pay nothing until you've approved it.
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