Playground canopies and shelters are among the most common ways schools improve how their outdoor space functions – providing weather protection for play, reducing pressure on internal corridors at break times, and creating environments where students can spend time outside throughout the year.

For primary schools in particular, covered playground space has a direct effect on how children play, learn and develop – and on the operational pressure that falls on staff when wet weather removes outdoor options entirely.

Streetspace.Build designs and constructs permanent covered structures for schools and colleges across the UK and Ireland. Where the requirement is for general-purpose covered outdoor space – for play, circulation, social use or sheltered areas adjacent to buildings – we develop structures around the specific requirements of the site and the school, rather than fitting a school to a standard product.

Projects are developed from first conversation through to completed construction by a single team, with cost and design considered together from the outset.