The latest trends focus increasingly on brownfield sites, dilapidated or abandoned former industrial areas, as important spaces within urban structures whose revitalisation breathes new life into the city. It is therefore particularly interesting when such spaces are found in rural areas that have the potential to grow and expand its existing structures through sustainable planning and design of space. Bedekovčina lakes, situated within a municipality of the same name in the northwest of Croatia, represent precisely such a space. It is a space that has not been adequately remedied after the excavation of clay and has never been properly landscaped. Succession processes have created a particular ecosystem which has great potential, and the very location and characteristics of Bedekovčina lakes represent further potential for the development of blue-green infrastructure of the town and the municipality, as well as for visits, recreation, education and tourism. Therefore, the solution to the problem of usage of this space, neither typically rural nor typically urban, lies in landscape design of the Bedekovčina lakes. This solution should, therefore, aim to harmonise the ecological and anthropogenic aspects, as well as traditional and contemporary. The creation of a multifunctional space could benefit the revitalisation of the social life of the local community, and the wider population may be interested in the attractive destination. All these aspects bring new assets to the landscape.