Egham · TW20 · Surrey
Garden Design in Egham.
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Garden Design
Egham, TW20
Design consultation & plan
£500–£1,500
3D spatial planning and concept drawings
Egham
Garden Design in Egham, Surrey
What changes here.
Garden design in Egham is drainage-led from the first conversation, not because every garden floods but because the town's 2014 history means we would rather design for the wettest week of the year than discover the ground's limits after planting is in. That does not mean much is off the table — it means a scheme's layout, levels and planting palette get chosen with water management built in from the concept stage rather than retrofitted once a lawn has struggled through a winter.
Garden Design ground conditions in Egham
Soil across much of Egham holds water for longer after heavy rain than a town further from the Thames, so we test at survey and specify planting and lawn preparation that tolerates a wet winter rather than fighting it. Where a garden sits on one of the town's Victorian or Edwardian terraces, access through the house also shapes what a design can practically achieve — a full garden rebuild that needs machinery moved through the property is a different conversation to one on a semi with its own side access, and we scope that honestly at the design consultation. Larger detached plots elsewhere in the town rarely carry either constraint.
Planning and permissions in Egham
Most garden landscaping in Egham — patios, paths, planting, raised beds — is permitted development under Runnymede Borough Council's rules. Front-facing elements of a design draw more scrutiny inside the town's conservation area boundaries, which we check against your specific address, and any scheme depending on removing an established tree needs its preservation-order status confirmed early given how much mature planting features on Egham's older plots.
Pricing guide
Garden Design costs in Egham.
Ranges, not quotes. Access, levels, drainage and ground conditions move these numbers in both directions, and only the survey settles it. We publish them so you can sanity-check anyone else's figure before you agree to it.
| Material / option | Typical cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Design consultation & plan | £500–£1,500 | 3D spatial planning and concept drawings |
| Full garden scheme | £8,000–£30,000+ | Scope-dependent, hard and soft landscaping |
| Hard landscaping only | £5,000–£20,000 | Paths, walls, structures and drainage |
Scope of works
Garden Design — what's included
- Site survey covering levels, soil and drainage
- 3D spatial planning and concept visualisation
- Hard landscaping: walls, paths, steps & structures
- Soft landscaping: planting plans, lawns & hedging
- Water features and garden lighting design
- Drainage and subsurface irrigation systems
- Raised planters, rockeries, and feature walls
- One point of contact from survey to handover
Garden Design in Egham FAQs
In Egham, specifically.
Yes, from the layout stage onward. We design levels, drainage and planting palette around ground that can hold water for longer after heavy rain than a town further from the Thames, rather than treating drainage as something added once the design looks finished. It does not rule anything out — it changes what gets specified.
Yes, and it shapes what is practical more than it limits the design itself. We scope machinery and materials access honestly at the design consultation, and where a scheme genuinely needs equipment moved through the house, that gets built into the programme and the quote from the start rather than discovered partway through.
Species that tolerate a saturated root zone through winter rather than ones that need consistently free-draining ground. We test soil at survey and specify the planting palette and lawn preparation to match what we actually find, which on plots closer to the Thames often means a genuinely different plant list to a garden further from the river.
Mainly at the front of a property rather than the rear. Egham has its own conservation area, and Runnymede has separate ones at Egham Hythe, Englefield Green and Thorpe — inside those boundaries, front-facing walls, gates and surfacing draw more scrutiny. Rear garden design is usually far less constrained, and we confirm which applies to your address at the consultation.
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