Landscaping in Hinckley, priced in writing before anything starts.
Hinckley gardens divide along the same line as the houses. On the later estate housing out towards Hollycroft, Sketchley and Burbage there is room to work, side access and a plot with a shape you can design into. On the Victorian streets near the centre the garden is narrow, walled both sides, and reachable only through the house.
That second case decides the price. Every tonne of aggregate and every slab is carried rather than barrowed round the side, and a garden that would take four days on an estate house takes considerably longer. We would rather explain that with the quotation than have it appear later as a variation.
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 a conservation area there may be further control on top, including on the boundary wall itself, which on the Victorian streets is often part of what the designation is protecting.
Retaining walls are structure rather than decoration. Anything holding back a real change in level gets designed and drained, not stacked. 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 Hinckley & Bosworth Borough 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 Hinckley street to the next.
Landscaping moves more material than anything except groundworks, and on a plot with no rear access every bit of it goes through the house or over the fence. Where there is a back entry we will use it. Where there is not, we protect a route through and plan deliveries in quantities that can actually be carried, which is why we will not price a Hinckley garden from photographs.
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 borough before even a heavy prune, and the Druid Street and town centre designations cover a good deal of mature planting. Taking down a protected tree is a criminal offence and the fine can exceed the cost of the entire garden. We check first, every time.
Part of our wider building work in Hinckley.
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.
