Driveways in Atherton
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 three miles from our Leigh base.
Driveways for Atherton Gardens
On Atherton’s terraced streets round the town centre and Hamilton Street, the front garden turned into a parking space years ago, and a lot of those old surfaces are now cracked or sunk. We lift them out and lay block paving properly, digging down to firm ground and building a load-bearing sub-base that a car won’t rut over a wet winter.
We cover Atherton and the surrounding area: Hag Fold, Hindsford, Howe Bridge, Gibfield, Chanters and beyond (M46).
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What’s Included
Block paving is what we fit, laid herringbone with a concrete-haunched edge course to lock it in place. On the newer Gibfield estates the builders leave the ground compacted flat, which sounds ideal for a drive but drains badly, so we still excavate and rebuild the base rather than paving straight over it.
- 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 Atherton, FAQs
Yes, it’s one of our regular M46 jobs. We handle the excavation, edgings, sub-base and the block paving itself, and we build the drainage so surface water soaks away on your own plot. If the job needs a dropped kerb across the footway, that application goes to Wigan Council and we can walk you through it.
The paving is usually fine under permitted development as long as the rainwater doesn’t run out onto the highway. We keep the drainage inside your boundary with a permeable detail or a fall to a border, which is exactly what the rules ask for. A dropped kerb is the separate bit that does need council sign-off.
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.