Landscaping in Corby, priced in writing before anything starts.
Corby gardens are among the easiest to build in on our patch and among the most likely to hide something under the topsoil.
The access is genuinely good. Estate plots have driveways, side gates and room to work, which means a machine can reach the garden, materials can be delivered close to where they are needed, and a garden here costs meaningfully less to build than the same design behind a terrace elsewhere.
The catch is what is underneath. When housing goes up quickly and at scale, gardens are frequently left as whatever the site was when the builders finished: subsoil graded over, topsoil spread thinly on top, and a certain amount of construction debris buried rather than removed. Two generations later that shows up as a lawn that yellows in the same patches every summer, planting that never establishes, and post holes that hit something solid at three hundred millimetres.
So we dig a trial hole before designing rather than after quoting. If there is only a hundred millimetres of soil over compacted subsoil, that is worth knowing, and the honest answer is often that the money is better spent on the ground than on the plants.
Levels are the other recurring item. Estate gardens were frequently left with a fall the original builder never resolved. 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 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 Corby street to the next.
Retaining structures are designed and drained rather than stacked. Anything holding back a real change in level is a structural element, and on ground that was graded rather than naturally formed that matters more than it looks.
Holford’s plan left Corby with a great deal of mature woodland and open space, and where a plot backs onto it the trees may be protected. We check before anything is quoted for removal or heavy pruning.
Front hard surfacing over five square metres needs a permeable material or drainage to a soft area within your boundary, or planning permission. On the wide estate frontages here that rule catches more driveway projects than people expect.
Boundaries on estate plots are frequently shared and the ownership is not always what people assume. Before we take down or rebuild a fence we check the title plan, because a fence replaced on the wrong side of a boundary is an expensive way to fall out with a neighbour you will have for years.
Part of our wider building work in Corby.
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.
