Driveways in Astley
Block paving driveways dug out to the depth a car actually needs, laid on a compacted sub-base with edge courses that lock under turning wheels, and drained within your own boundary so you stay inside permitted development. Around four miles from our Leigh base.
Driveways for Astley Gardens
The big variable for an Astley driveway is the ground. Down towards Astley Moss it turns soft and peaty, and soft ground under a drive that takes daily car weight is a recipe for ruts and dips unless it’s dealt with. We dig out deeper on the low-lying plots and build up a thicker compacted sub-base so the surface has something firm to sit on.
We cover Astley and the surrounding area: Astley Green, Higher Green, Blackmoor, Cross Hillock, Astley Moss and beyond (M29).
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What’s Included
On top of that base we lay block paving in a herringbone bond with a concrete-haunched border. Herringbone is used because it interlocks and spreads the load of the car, and the border stops the edges spreading, which matters even more where the underlying ground is on the soft side.
- Block paving and paved driveways, laid to pattern
- Dug out to the depth a driveway needs for vehicle weight
- Compacted MOT Type 1 sub-base built up in layers
- Herringbone and edge courses that lock under turning wheels
- Drainage kept within your boundary, no planning headache
- Old drives broken out and carted away
How It Works
Driveways in Astley, FAQs
Yes, it just needs building for the conditions. We excavate deeper to reach firmer material, compact a thicker sub-base and keep the drainage on your own plot, so the finished drive carries the weight of the cars without settling. Paving over soft ground without that extra depth is why some drives sink.
It will as long as the surface water drains within your boundary rather than running off onto the road. We fall the block paving to a soakaway or a border on your land, which keeps you inside the rules. A dropped kerb, if you need one, is a separate application to Wigan Council.
Usually not. Under permitted development you can pave a front garden without permission as long as the surface is permeable, or rainwater drains to a lawn, border or soakaway within your own boundary. Permission only comes into it when more than five square metres of impermeable paving drains straight onto the road, and we design driveways so it never does.
It depends on the size, the access and what we find when we dig, because the excavation and sub-base are a fair chunk of the price whatever blocks go on top. We price per job rather than a blanket rate per square metre, since a tight drive with awkward access costs more per metre than a big open one, so you get an exact written figure after a free site visit before anything starts.
Deeper than a patio, because it carries cars rather than a table and chairs. We dig out past the topsoil into firm ground, then build back up with a compacted MOT Type 1 sub-base thick enough for the load, laid and whacked in layers rather than in one go. The exact depth depends on the ground we uncover, which is why we check it on the site visit.