Windlesham · GU20 · Surrey
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Driveways, patios, garden schemes and the groundworks underneath them, in Windlesham and the streets around it. Built by our own crew, on a sub-base dug for the ground under your plot rather than a standard depth copied off the last job.
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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.
That is how we prefer to run them. The whole garden gets designed up front so nothing is compromised by the phasing, then groundworks, drainage and hard landscaping go in first and the planting follows. Terracing, retaining walls, drives, fencing and full soft landscaping, on ground that behaves nothing like the clay down by the river.
- Green Belt and the neighbourhood plan
- Metropolitan Green Belt covers a large part of Surrey Heath, including land around Windlesham, and the borough applies it tightly. The Windlesham Neighbourhood Development Plan has been made, which means it carries real weight in Surrey Heath decisions rather than being advisory. Windlesham Parish Council covers Windlesham together with Bagshot and Lightwater, so parish-level policy here is not a minor consideration when a scheme touches anything structural.
- Heathland sand under the topsoil
- Surrey Heath takes its name from the heaths across the north and east of the borough, and Chobham Common adjoins the parish. The ground that produced that heathland is acidic, free-draining sand: generous to soakaways, and unforgiving of a poorly compacted sub-base, because loose sand carries no load at all until it is properly consolidated in layers. It also drives the planting palette, since lime-loving species will sulk here whatever the label promised.
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Much of the land around the village is — Metropolitan Green Belt covers a substantial share of Surrey Heath borough, and Windlesham sits within that pattern. Garden landscaping is generally unaffected, but outbuildings, garden rooms and larger areas of new hard surfacing are exactly what the policy exists to control. We check your specific plot against the boundary before designing anything that could be caught by it.
Free-draining acidic sand, the same ground that produced the heathland the borough is named after. It drains quickly, which is good news for soakaways and permeable surfaces, and it needs careful layered compaction under any paving because loose sand will not carry a load on its own. Acid-loving planting thrives here; chalk-loving planting does not, whatever the plant label says.
Yes, and on the bigger Windlesham plots it is often the sensible route. The full scheme is designed at the outset so no decision gets compromised later, then built in phases — groundworks, drainage and hard landscaping first, planting and finishing afterwards. That spreads the cost and the disruption without leaving you with a garden designed around a budget rather than a brief.
Surrey Heath Borough Council for planning and conservation matters, with Surrey County Council acting as the highway authority for anything touching the road — dropped kerbs, vehicle crossovers and skip permits. Windlesham Parish Council and its made neighbourhood plan sit alongside those. We confirm which consents a project needs and handle the applications.
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