Windlesham · GU20 · Surrey
Paving & Driveways in Windlesham.
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Paving & Driveways
Windlesham, GU20
Block Paving
£80–£130 /m²
Includes excavation, MOT Type 1 sub-base and edging
Windlesham
Paving & Driveways in Windlesham, Surrey
What changes here.
Windlesham driveways are usually longer than the ones we build in the tighter Berkshire towns, because the plots are bigger and the house often sits well back from the road behind a sweeping run rather than a short in-and-out. That changes the job before a single spade goes in: more excavation, more sub-base material, and a drainage design sized for a much larger paved area rather than a standard frontage. The free-draining acidic sand under most Windlesham gardens is generous here — a long permeable run over sand rarely needs the soakaway capacity the same driveway would want on clay — but it will not carry a car until it has been properly consolidated in layers, so the ground does not get to do the job on its own.
Paving & Driveways ground conditions in Windlesham
Dig into a Windlesham plot and you are almost always straight into that heathland sand once the topsoil comes off, the same free-draining ground that produced Chobham Common and the wider Surrey Heath. It compacts predictably in thin layers and takes water away quickly, which is exactly what a MOT Type 1 sub-base wants — but laid loose, or compacted in one pass instead of several, it carries no load at all and a driveway on it will rut within a season. On the larger rural plots we also survey for stretches of made-up ground near older outbuildings or a previous drive, since fill and old hardcore behave nothing like the sand either side of it.
Planning and permissions in Windlesham
Metropolitan Green Belt covers a substantial share of Surrey Heath around Windlesham, and while resurfacing an existing driveway rarely troubles it, a new or significantly enlarged hard-standing area on a large plot is closer to the kind of development the policy is written to control. We check the Green Belt boundary and the made Windlesham Neighbourhood Development Plan against your specific address before design work starts. A permeable surface over 5m² generally stays within permitted development; a non-permeable one over that size needs approval, and where a new crossover is involved we run the application with Surrey County Council as highway authority alongside the driveway design.
Pricing guide
Paving & Driveways costs in Windlesham.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Block Paving | £80–£130 /m² | Includes excavation, MOT Type 1 sub-base and edging |
| Resin Bound | £70–£110 /m² | SuDS compliant, UV stable aggregate |
| Natural Stone Setts | £120–£200 /m² | Granite or sandstone, cut and laid by hand |
| Typical driveway (50m²) | £4,000–£8,000 | Full supply and install, drainage included |
Scope of works
Paving & Driveways — what's included
- Excavation to 250mm minimum, MOT Type 1 sub-base
- Block paving in herringbone, basketweave & stretcher bond
- Resin-bound surfacing — SuDS & planning compliant
- Natural stone: granite setts, sandstone & limestone
- Drainage channels designed with the falls, not after
- Edging, kerbing, and dropped kerb coordination
- Groundworks for driveway gates and lighting
- Line marking and finishing details
Paving & Driveways in Windlesham FAQs
In Windlesham, specifically.
Usually more sub-base and more thought about where the water goes, rather than a fundamentally different approach. A long run collects more rainfall than a short one, and even on free-draining sand we design falls and any soakaway or permeable margin around the full paved area rather than assuming the ground will simply absorb it. The survey measures the actual run length and catchment before we size anything.
Resurfacing or replacing an existing drive on its existing footprint generally will not. A substantially larger hard-standing area, or one that reads as new development on an undeveloped part of a large Green Belt plot, is a different conversation, and we check the boundary and the made neighbourhood plan against your address before quoting rather than after you have ordered materials.
No — free-draining is not the same as load-bearing, and that is the most common misunderstanding on this ground. The sand drains beautifully once water is in it, but until it is excavated to depth and compacted in thin, controlled layers it will not carry a car. We build the sub-base for the load first and let the sand do the draining it is already good at underneath.
Often, on the larger rural plots where an older track has been topped up with hardcore over the years rather than properly built. We test what is actually under the surface at survey — sometimes it is a workable base we can build on, and sometimes it is loose fill that needs digging out before a new sub-base goes down. Either way we tell you which before pricing the job, not after we start digging.
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