Driveways in Wigan
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 seven miles from our Leigh base.
Driveways for Wigan Gardens
Turning a Wigan front garden into off-road parking is one of the jobs we’re asked for most, especially on the terraced streets around Scholes and Whelley where kerbside space is tight. We lay the parking in block paving, herringbone laid with a firm edge course set in concrete, which is the layout that takes a car turning and braking on it without the blocks shifting.
We cover Wigan and the surrounding area: Scholes, Whelley, Swinley, Beech Hill, Worsley Mesnes and beyond (WN1, WN2, WN3, WN6).
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What’s Included
Down on the low-lying side of town near the flashes the ground already holds water, so we keep a new drive’s drainage within your own boundary. That means a permeable finish or a soakaway rather than tipping rain onto the pavement, and a deep compacted sub-base underneath so the surface stays firm even where the ground is soft.
- 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 Wigan, FAQs
If a car has to cross the footpath to reach the drive, yes. The dropped kerb is applied for through Wigan Council and built to their specification, separately from the paving. We’ll build the driveway side to line up with the crossing so it all works as one job.
Because it’s the strongest bond for a driveway. Herringbone interlocks every block against its neighbours, so the weight of a car spreads sideways instead of pushing individual blocks down or out of line. A straight stretcher bond looks fine on a path but works loose under vehicles.
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.