Pool Landscaping Perth
Concrete Pools Perth
Custom-built concrete pools designed and integrated with the landscape, by a Perth team that has been doing both since 2005.
A concrete pool is the most enduring, fully customisable swimming pool you can build in a Perth backyard. It is also the option that lives or dies on how well it integrates with the landscape around it — paving, planting, decking, retaining, drainage and lighting. We have been designing landscapes (and the concrete pools that anchor them) across Perth and Western Australia from our Belmont office for two decades.
If you want a pool shaped to your block, finished to your taste, and feeling like part of the garden rather than dropped into it — you are on the right page.
Why Concrete Wins for Perth Backyards
Fully custom shape, depth and finish
A concrete pool is built to fit a tight courtyard, a sloping block, an irregular boundary, or a specific design vision. Fibreglass shells come in fixed sizes that may not suit your space.
Long-term durability in our climate
Steel-reinforced concrete handles ground movement on Perth’s sandy and limestone soils, copes with heat and UV, and won’t blister or fade the way some pre-moulded surfaces can over decades.
Premium finishes nothing else can match
Concrete accepts quartz-blend plasters, pebble interiors, fully tiled finishes, integrated swim-outs, ledges, sun shelves and infinity edges. Things fibreglass simply can’t replicate.
Built-in landscape integration
The pool gets engineered with the paving, retaining walls and planting palette — not bolted on afterwards. That’s what we do every day as a landscape-led pool builder.
The Concrete Pool Construction Process
One team, one program, from first peg to handover. Every stage coordinated in-house with our pool crew and our landscape team.
Site Consultation & Design
We walk your block, mark out positions, talk through orientation, sight lines, alfresco connections and what you want from the pool. Then produce a tailored concept and itemised quote.
Council & Water Corporation Approval
We handle engineering certificates, drawings and submissions for your local council building permit and Water Corporation approvals — typically four to eight weeks.
Excavation
Our excavation crew dig to the engineered shape and depth. Sandy coastal soils, limestone foothills, narrow rear access — we have the machinery and experience for the lot.
Steel Reinforcement & the Pool Shell
Reinforced steel is fixed inside the excavation, then sprayed concrete forms the shell. Steps, bench seats, swim-outs and sun ledges are hand-finished to your design.
Plumbing, Lighting & Electrical
Skimmer boxes, return jets, filtration, underwater lighting, heating, in-floor cleaning and water feature plumbing are all installed and pressure-tested before any finish goes on.
Tiling, Coping & Plaster Finish
Waterline tiles, perimeter coping, and the internal finish — quartz-blend plaster, pebble or full tile — selected together with your landscape palette so it all reads as one.
Pool Barrier & Water Filling
An AS1926.1-compliant pool safety barrier is installed and inspected before the pool is filled, with full water chemistry balanced ready for first swim.
Landscaping & Final Handover
Our landscape team finishes the paving, planting, lighting and decking around the pool, then we walk you through equipment operation and an aftercare guide.
Concrete Pool Types We Build
Family Pools
The classic Perth backyard pool — 6–10m, rectangular or freeform, shallow end for kids, often paired with a spa.
Lap Pools
Long, narrow pools (12–25m) for serious swimming and fitness. Ideal for narrow side-of-house spaces.
Plunge Pools
Compact 3–5m pools for cooling off and relaxation. Excellent for courtyards, units, and small backyards.
Infinity-Edge Pools
One or more edges where water spills over a hidden catch basin. Best on sloping blocks with a view.
Resort-Style Pools
Larger custom pools with sun shelves, swim-outs, integrated water features and beach entries.
Pools & Spas
Concrete spa sharing a glass or coping wall with the main pool. Year-round hot water alongside summer swimming.
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Why a Landscaper Builds a Better Pool
Most Perth pool companies build the pool, then leave you to find a landscaper to fix everything around it. That gap is where bad outcomes happen — coping that doesn’t match the paving, garden levels that drain into the pool, retaining walls added as an afterthought.
We come at it the other way. The pool gets designed with the paving, the retaining walls, the alfresco, the planting palette, and the lighting — not bolted on afterwards.
- One coordinated design — pool coping, paving and the alfresco floor specified together so they read as one surface.
- One engineered structure — retaining walls and the pool shell engineered as a coordinated structure where a level change is needed.
- One trades program — reticulation, drainage and pool plumbing coordinated so trades aren't tearing up each other's work.
- One outdoor room — plants, lighting and surfaces selected as one composition, not a pool plus a paver plus a garden bed.
Transform Your Outdoor Space Today
Book a free on-site consultation. We’ll walk your block, talk through your project, and follow up with a tailored concept and itemised quote.
Recent Concrete Pool Projects
Concrete pools and pool landscapes built across Perth metro and the surrounding regions. Recent projects include builds in Treeby, Piara Waters, Baldivis, Alkimos, Ellenbrook and the South Yunderup area through to Mandurah.
Browse the project gallery for photographs and design notes from each completed build.
Why Choose Landscapes WA?
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Comprehensive Concrete Pool Service
From initial design consultation through landscape construction and ongoing maintenance — one team, one contract, one program. -
Experienced Professional Team
Family-owned and operated since 2005. Our crew of landscape architects, designers, project managers and pool installers have decades of WA experience between them. -
Personalised Project Management
One person walks your site, designs your build, and manages the trades. Direct communication throughout, no hand-offs lost in translation. -
Quality Workmanship & Materials
Engineer-signed steel reinforcement, sprayed concrete shell, AS1266 safety glass on glass fencing, AS1926.1 compliant pool barriers, premium finishes throughout. -
Award-Recognised Work
LIAWA finalist and winner positions across Residential Designer and Best Special Feature categories — recognition from the WA landscape industry.
What Affects Concrete Pool Pricing
Concrete pools are custom-built, so prices vary widely. Rather than quote a misleading “from” figure, here are the eight factors that move the number on a Perth quote.
Pool size, shape & depth
Bigger and deeper means more excavation, steel, concrete, plaster and water — and a heavier engineering certificate.
Site access & ground conditions
Tight rear access, limestone substrate, water-table issues or steep slopes all add cost.
Internal finish
Standard quartz-blend plaster is the entry point. Pebble, glass-bead blends and full tile each step the budget up.
Coping, tiles & surrounds
Premium natural stone coping and large-format porcelain or stone surrounds cost more than standard options.
Equipment & features
Heating, in-floor cleaning, swim jets, integrated water features, automated chemical management, feature lighting.
Pool fencing
Glass pool fencing is significantly more than aluminium tube fencing, but is the more popular design-led choice.
Council & approvals
Most Perth councils have similar permit fees, but timeline and complexity differ between LGAs.
Landscape integration scope
Paving, retaining, alfresco, planting and lighting around the pool — usually quoted alongside the pool build itself.
Trusted by Perth Families & Top Builders
For the past 6 years, LWA Landscapes has provided Dale Alcock Homes with the highest level of service in landscape design and installation. From the very beginning of a project through all phases of design, planning, construction and maintenance; LWA Landscapes has ensured the design vision is achieved and sustained. With an old fashioned attitude to customer service and quality of product, it has created a professional working relationship between Dale Alcock Homes and the LWA Landscapes team. Damian Hewett Construction Manager
Concrete Pools Perth — FAQs
Allow four to eight weeks for design and approvals (council building permit, Water Corporation where applicable, engineering), then typically twelve to sixteen weeks of on-site construction from excavation through to handover. Add additional time for surrounding landscape works if completed in the same program. Total from contract to swimming is usually four to six months.
Yes. Every Perth local government requires a building permit for a swimming pool, and Water Corporation approval is required where the work affects sewer or water service infrastructure. We handle the engineering certificates, drawings and submissions as part of our service.
A concrete pool is built in place, so the size, depth, shape and finish are fully custom. A fibreglass pool is a pre-moulded shell delivered to site and craned in. Concrete generally suits larger, customised, design-led projects and difficult sites. Fibreglass suits standard sizes and quicker installations on straightforward blocks.
Yes. Perth’s coastal plain is dominated by free-draining sandy soils and pools have been engineered to suit them for decades. The engineer specifies steel reinforcement and concrete thickness based on your specific site report. Sloping blocks, limestone substrate and high water tables all have established engineering solutions.
The most common is a quartz-blend plaster — hardwearing, slightly textured interior in a range of colours. Other finishes include exposed pebble, glass-bead blends and fully tiled interiors using mosaic or large-format pool tiles. Each has different cost, maintenance and aesthetic implications.
A properly engineered and maintained concrete pool can comfortably last 40–50 years. The internal finish (plaster or pebble) typically needs renewing once over that lifespan, while the structural shell, plumbing and equipment are progressively serviced or upgraded over the years.
Yes. All Perth pools require a compliant pool safety barrier conforming to AS1926.1, the Australian Standard for swimming pool safety barriers. The barrier is inspected and signed off as part of the council approval and handover process.
Yes — sloping blocks are often where concrete pools shine. We integrate retaining walls and the pool shell as a single engineered structure, and the level change can be used to create infinity edges, raised pool walls or split-level pool-and-spa configurations that wouldn’t be possible on a flat site.
Yes — that’s our core business. We design the pool and the landscape together so paving, alfresco, planting, retaining and lighting all work as one composition. This is the main reason clients choose us over a standalone pool builder.
We build across Perth metro and into regional Western Australia, with projects regularly in suburbs from Yanchep and Alkimos in the north, through Joondalup, Wanneroo, Stirling, Belmont, Cottesloe and the western suburbs, down to Cockburn, Baldivis and Mandurah in the south. Our office is in Belmont and we travel for the right project.
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