Specifying | Green Roof Shelters Ltd.

Specifying for wildlife and social value.

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All our shelters are set modular sizes to allow for a variety of configurations. We produce them to a high standard at our yard and deliver them complete with plants, habitat and appropriate use built in.

To find out more about the sizes and modules we produce please get in touch.

Modular cycle parking for:

6 bicycles: L2.77 H2.25 D2.08
8 bicycles: L3.7 H2.25 D2.08
10 bicycles: L4.63 H2.25 D2.08
15 bicycles (Two-tier):
L3.7 H2.93 D2.08

Dims in meters.

Sizes are modular and can be positioned end to end, back to back or with fronts facing each other and ideally a 2m gap.

Optional extras include:

Larch cladding
Twin mesh infil panels
Compound layout with gates
Enclosed sliding doors.

All come planted, with locking bars, habitat and ready to set in place right off of the lorry.

Aerial photo of green roof shelters in a yard under construction. The roofs have dark substrate in them but no plants yet.

If you are looking to attain the wildlife and social value of Green Roof Shelters, and achieve higher BREEAM or BNG credits, these are the key points to specify:
(Green Roof Shelters contribute to Biodiversity Net Gain Units and Urban Greening Factor (UGF score 0.7) - as opposed to lightweight sedum roofs that have little comparable biodiversity value and UGF 0.3)
Presuming BREEAM or BNG credits are relevant to the project, Green Roof Shelters Ltd are the only cycle shelters that meet many of the metric targets for planning & BREEAM or BNG requirements.

A green roof edge detail with galvanised steel and substrate and planting on top.

Trial beds with varying substrates detectable by the slight differences in brown to grey colouring. Plants grow in each.

Roof edge detail with aged drilled log habitat panels below and plants above.

A public space flower bed in the foreground and a timber clad shelter behind.

Green Roof Shelter spec*.
Minimum 150-200mm deep, low nutrient, growing roof substrate (225kg/m2 when saturated)
Planted with 46+ nectar-rich native plants (with optional/additional non-natives to extend the nectar
season for early and late pollinators - bees, butterflies, moths and other invertebrates).
Minimum 1.6m2 Wildlife habitat panels comprising drilled UK chestnut rounds (solitary bee nesting), bamboo (solitary bee nesting), sheeps’ wool (bird nesting material), bird nesting boxes for blue tits or great tits, or social nesting boxes for house sparrows, and 1m2+ rubble gabions as invertebrate refuge. Roofs have additional invertebrate habitat consisting of log piles and sand mounds.
* to distinguish from lightweight sedum roofs and / or to meet BREEAM & BNG metrics for planning.
Green Roof Shelters are a nature-based solution, with wildlife habitat and plant species-diversity at their heart.

A Great Tit flies out of the round hole of a bird box, with its wings tucked in like a bullet.

Close up of a solitary bee flying towards holes drilled in logs contained in a metal mesh panel.

Nesting provided for birds and solitary bees.

Graphics showing plant and bee species on a panel with text describing each species.