Landscaping in Daventry, priced in writing before anything starts.
Daventry is, for once, a good town for landscaping access. The estate housing that makes up most of it generally has side access, a driveway and a garden a machine can actually reach, which means a garden here often costs less to build than the same garden on a tight terrace elsewhere.
The exceptions are the older core, where plots are tighter and everything goes through the house, and the villages, where the plot may be generous but the lane to it is not. We size deliveries to what can genuinely get down a village lane rather than booking an artic and finding out.
On front gardens there is a national rule that catches people constantly. More than five square metres of hard surfacing to the front of a house needs either a permeable material or a way of draining the run off to a soft area inside your own boundary. Do neither and it needs planning permission. In the town centre conservation area, where the Article 4 direction is already concerned with how frontages look, expect further control on top of that.
Levels and retaining walls are structure rather than decoration. Anything holding back a real change in level gets designed and drained rather than stacked, and on the estates, where gardens were often left with a fall the builder never resolved, that comes up more than you would think. Our landscaping page shows the range of the work.
Four things we commit to on every job, rather than four things we say about ourselves.
Permitted development is not an exemption from Building Regulations. We arrange the West Northamptonshire Council inspections, meet the inspector on site at each stage and see the work through to sign off. We do not make the application itself, and we will tell you what is needed and when.
Free, and you get it before you commit to us. Party walls and skip licences are raised at quotation stage, not three weeks into the dig.
The same people do the groundworks, the brickwork and the fit out. Nobody hands your job to a subcontractor you have never met.
You get a straight answer rather than a padded price. It costs us a job occasionally and saves you a great deal more.
Process, specification and what moves the price are set out on our landscaping page.
The answers that genuinely differ from one Daventry street to the next.
Where a machine can reach the garden, the job is quicker and cheaper, and on most Daventry estate plots it can. Where it cannot, in the older core or behind a village cottage, material is carried and the price reflects that honestly rather than being discovered later.
Check whether a tree is protected before anything is quoted to remove it. Every tree inside a conservation area is protected whether or not a specific order exists, which means six weeks written notice to the council before even a heavy prune, and with 39 conservation areas across the Daventry area that catches a lot of mature planting, particularly in the villages. Removing a protected tree is a criminal offence and the fine can exceed the cost of the entire garden.
Part of our wider building work in Daventry.
Send photographs and a rough brief, or call and talk it through. We will tell you if a job is not right for us.
Southfield Construction (Rugby) Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company 14209138.
