Landscaping in Burton Latimer, priced in writing before anything starts.
Gardens in Burton Latimer are the place where the town’s quarrying history shows up most often, and usually as disappointment rather than as anything dramatic.
Where an estate was built out over restored quarry ground, the garden was frequently finished with a thin layer of topsoil spread over whatever was underneath. That is entirely normal practice and it is also why so many gardens here have a lawn that yellows in the same patches every summer, borders that never establish however much is spent on the plants, and a spade that hits something solid at three hundred millimetres.
None of that is a reason not to build a good garden. It is a reason to find out what is under the grass before designing one, because the honest answer is frequently that the money is better spent on the ground than on the planting. Improving a hundred millimetres of soil into something plants can actually live in transforms a garden more reliably than a more expensive specification laid over the same problem.
The same applies to anything that needs a foundation. Fence posts, garden walls and bases for buildings all need to reach something worth bearing on, and on variable restored ground that depth is not consistent across a plot.
So we dig a trial hole before designing rather than after quoting. Our landscaping page shows the range of the work, from patios and paths through 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 North 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 Burton Latimer street to the next.
Access on an estate plot is generally good, with a drive and a side gate, which means a machine can reach the garden and the job costs less than the same design behind a terrace elsewhere.
Levels and retaining structures are designed and drained rather than stacked, and on ground that was placed rather than naturally formed that matters more than it looks.
Front hard surfacing over five square metres needs a permeable material or drainage to a soft area within your boundary, or planning permission, and on wide estate frontages that rule catches more driveway projects than people expect.
Improving thin soil is unglamorous work and it is where the money goes furthest on these plots. Bringing in and blending proper topsoil, rather than laying turf over what is already there, is the difference between a lawn that establishes and one that stays patchy for as long as you own it.
Part of our wider building work in Burton Latimer.
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.
