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Hard Landscaping

Hard Landscaping in Kent

Walls, steps, fencing and kerbs built on sound footings to suit how you use your garden.

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  • 20+ Years’ Experience
  • Trusted & Friendly Team
  • Full Project Management
  • Competitive Pricing

Hard Landscaping

The Structure Around Your Paving

A new drive or patio rarely stands on its own. Levels change across the plot, boundaries need marking and the car needs a legal way in off the road. Our hard landscaping covers the walls, steps, fences and kerbs that hold a scheme together, built by the same team that lays the paving, so the levels and drainage line up.

Getting the levels right first saves trouble later. We set out falls so rainwater runs away from the house towards a drain or soakaway, and we build walls on concrete footings dug through the topsoil to firm ground, so they stay where they are put.

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About Us

Our Experience with Hard Landscaping

We are a family run groundworks business based in Staplehurst, and we bring over 20 years of experience to every hard landscaping job across Kent, East and West Sussex and south-east London.

The same small, friendly team surveys the job, prepares the ground and finishes the surface, so you deal with the people doing the work from the first visit to the final sweep.

We have worked on behalf of Kent County Council and utility companies, our team is registered with the Street Works Qualifications Register, and we are approved under the Trading Standards Buy With Confidence scheme.

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Our Projects

Hard Landscaping: Recent Work

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Hard Landscaping

Planning the Job with You

Some jobs are a single garden wall. Others mean stripping out a tired garden and rebuilding it from the ground up. Either way we visit, measure and talk through how you want to use the space, then give you a written quote that sets out each part of the work.

You deal with one team from the first visit to the final sweep, with full project management throughout. Most walls and fences up to 2 metres high need no planning permission, but the limit drops to 1 metre beside a road, and we will flag anything worth checking with your council before work starts.

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Explore Our Hard Landscaping Services

The Detail

What’s Included

  • Site visit and a written, itemised quote
  • Brick garden and boundary walls
  • Timber sleeper and brick retaining walls
  • Close board, panel and picket fencing with timber gates
  • Dropped kerbs and vehicle crossovers
  • Steps, piers and raised beds

Your Quote

What Affects the Price

Every quote is written after a visit, so you know what the price covers before any work is booked.

  1. 01The length and height of walls and fences
  2. 02How much digging and levelling the ground needs
  3. 03The materials you choose, from facing brick to timber sleepers
  4. 04Access for machinery and removing spoil
  5. 05Whether old walls, fences or paving need taking out first

Ready to Talk About Your Project?

Free site visits and written quotes across Kent and the South East.

How the Job Runs

Your Hard Landscaping Step by Step

  1. Survey & Quote

    We look at the levels, the ground and access, listen to what you want and send a written quote that breaks the job down.

  2. Setting Out

    Walls, fence lines, steps and falls are marked out on site so you can see the layout before anything is dug.

  3. Footings & Structure

    Footings and post holes are dug and concreted, then the walls, fences and steps are built up from them.

  4. Finishing & Clean-Up

    Copings, gates and edging go on last, spoil is taken away and the site is left tidy.

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Why Choose Us

Why Customers Choose Us

Domestic driveways or council-standard reinstatement, the same team and the same standards on every job.

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    20+

    Years’ Experience

    Over two decades of getting the sub-base, levels and drainage right first time.

  • Family Run

    You deal with the people doing the work, from the first visit to the final sweep.

  • Free Written Quotes

    A site visit and a written price, so you know what is included before you commit.

  • Competitive Pricing

    Fair prices set out clearly in your written quote, with the cost factors explained up front.

  • Quick Response

    Enquiries are answered promptly, and urgent potholes and failed drains come first.

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    Accredited Staff

    SWQR registered for highway work and approved under Trading Standards Buy With Confidence.

  • Ready for a Site Visit?

    Book a free visit and a written quote, with no obligation.

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Free, No-Obligation Quote

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Tell us what you have in mind and where the job is. We’ll come back to you to talk it through and arrange a visit to measure up.

  • A site visit to measure up and check levels
  • A written price before anything is booked
  • Street works registered, Trading Standards approved

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01580 234285

Tell Us About Your Project

We reply to every enquiry, usually the same working day.

Frequently Asked Questions

Hard Landscaping: Your Questions Answered

Can you do the landscaping and the driveway in one job?

Yes. Doing them together means the levels, edging and drainage are designed as one, and you avoid a second contractor tracking across your new paving.

Do I need planning permission for a garden wall or fence?

Under permitted development rules, a wall or fence up to 2 metres high generally needs no permission, or up to 1 metre beside a road used by vehicles. Listed buildings and conservation areas can have extra rules, so check with your council if either applies.

Do you work on commercial sites as well as homes?

Yes. We carry out hard landscaping for domestic and commercial clients across Kent, and into East Sussex, West Sussex and south-east London around Bromley and Orpington.

What hard landscaping work do you carry out?

Patios, paths and steps, garden walls and brickwork, retaining walls, fencing and dropped kerbs, alongside the driveways and groundworks that often go with them.

Do you offer free quotes for landscaping?

We visit, look at the ground, the levels and where the water goes, then send a written quote setting out what the job involves. There is no charge for the visit and no obligation to go ahead.

Can’t Find Your Answer?

Get in touch and we’ll talk it through, with no obligation.