Landscaping in Warwick, priced in writing before anything starts.
Warwick gardens in the centre have a shape that comes straight out of the medieval plot pattern: narrow at the house and running a long way back. The fire changed the buildings and left the boundaries alone.
Those boundaries are frequently old walls, and old walls are the thing we get asked to demolish and most often advise against. A brick or stone garden wall in central Warwick may be historic fabric, may be listed as part of the building, and may be the only thing holding a change of level between two properties. It also may be structurally poor, built with lime mortar on almost no foundation, and easily damaged by work alongside it. We look at boundary walls before pricing anything that runs near one.
Levels are the other Warwick constant. The town sits on rising ground and a great many gardens fall noticeably, which means a patio laid dead level will drain the wrong way and a change of level needs a retaining structure that is designed and drained rather than stacked.
The national rule on front hard surfacing applies: more than five square metres needs a permeable material or drainage to a soft area within your boundary, or planning permission. In the conservation area expect further control.
Our landscaping page shows the range of the work, from patios and paths to full garden rebuilds.
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 Warwick District 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 Warwick street to the next.
Every tree in a conservation area is protected whether or not an order exists, which means six weeks written notice to the district before even a heavy prune. Warwick’s conservation area covers a great deal of mature planting and removing a protected tree is a criminal offence, so we check before anything is quoted.
On a long central plot with no side access, every tonne is carried through the building. We protect a route and size deliveries to what can actually be moved, which is why a Warwick town garden is not something we will price from photographs.
Paving material in the conservation area is not a free choice, and a modern concrete flag in front of a Georgian frontage will be noticed by more than just the council.
Part of our wider building work in Warwick.
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.
