Areas we cover across Berkshire & SurreyThe ground changes
every few miles.

Ascot is where our vans start every morning. Block-paved and resin-bound driveways, patios, garden schemes, fencing and the groundworks under all of it, across SL5 and the rest of Berkshire.

Sunningdale and the Wentworth Estate are five minutes from our Ascot base, and we are in SL5 most weeks: block paving, resin-bound driveways, large-format porcelain patios and full garden redesigns.

We cover Windsor, Eton, Old Windsor, Datchet and the rest of SL4 — repointed Yorkstone patios on heritage properties at one end of the range, full resin-bound driveways at the other, all of it built by our own crew.

Eton Bridge has carried no motor traffic since 1970, which decides more about a job here than the design does. Everything arrives from the Slough Road end of the High Street, turns where there is room to turn, and leaves the same way.

Green Belt surrounds the built-up part of Old Windsor on every side, and the parish itself runs from the Thames across most of Windsor Great Park and up towards Virginia Water, taking in the Long Walk and the Copper Horse. Very little of the parish is the village.

Four watercourses can flood Datchet: the River Thames, the Jubilee River, the Myrke stream and Datchet Common Brook. Very few villages this size carry that many, and the two smaller ones run closer to a lot of gardens than the Thames does.

Wraysbury has a TW19 postcode and a Staines-upon-Thames postal address, and neither of them tells you who decides your planning application. The village is in Berkshire, in the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead, so the paperwork goes to Windsor rather than to Spelthorne.

Sunninghill shares the SL5 postcode with Ascot and gets quoted as though it were part of it. It is a separate village with its own High Street, Lower Village Road and Bagshot Road, and its own parking and road safety problems that Ascot does not have.

We cover the whole of GU25 — the Wentworth Estate, Christchurch Road, Trumps Green, Callow Hill and the roads around Virginia Water Lake. Driveways, patios, walls and full garden schemes, with the sub-base engineered for the plot rather than for the invoice.

The Wentworth Estate is private, and a covenant attached to its properties requires the Roads Committee’s approval before a tree is felled. That one clause shapes more garden projects here than any council policy does, because so many layouts on this estate depend on what happens to the planting first.

Windlesham is a geographically large village with gardens to match, sitting in a borough where Metropolitan Green Belt covers a substantial share of the land. Plots here are frequently big enough that the sensible answer is a scheme built across two or three seasons rather than one very long invoice.

Bagshot gave its name to the ground it stands on. The Bagshot Formation — the sand that underlies this corner of Surrey and created the heaths across it — takes its name from Bagshot Heath, and it drains faster than almost anything else we build on.

Chobham Common carries about as many protective designations as one piece of ground can hold. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a national nature reserve, and it forms part of both the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area and the Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham Special Area of Conservation.

Egham took the worst of the flooding in Runnymede borough when the Thames came up in February 2014. That is the fact worth carrying into any conversation about digging up a garden here, and it is why drainage gets designed before a surface is chosen rather than after.

Englefield Green is a conservation area, and the reason for it is immediately next door. The village grew against the south-eastern corner of Windsor Great Park and became a fashionable address through the 18th and 19th centuries precisely because of how close it was to Windsor.

Two councils touch a Staines job. Spelthorne Borough Council deals with planning and conservation area consent; Surrey County Council is the highway authority, so the skip permit and the dropped kerb come from the county. Getting that the wrong way round costs a week before anything is dug.