Patios & Driveways in Ashton-in-Makerfield
Patios and driveways built from the ground up: proper excavation, a compacted sub-base and falls that carry water away from your house, in porcelain, Indian stone, flags or block paving. Around five miles from our Leigh base.
Patios & Driveways for Ashton-in-Makerfield Gardens
Off-street parking is worth a lot in Ashton-in-Makerfield. It’s commuter country, close to the M6, and on the terraced streets around the town centre a proper driveway can transform how a house works day to day. We build driveways in block paving, resin and stone that stand up to daily use, and patios in porcelain and Indian stone that give you somewhere solid to sit when the weather allows.
We cover Ashton-in-Makerfield and the surrounding area: Bryn, Garswood, Stubshaw Cross, Town Green, North Ashton and beyond (WN4).
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What’s Included
On Ashton’s heavy ground the build-up underneath decides whether paving lasts. We excavate to a proper depth, lay a compacted MOT sub-base and set falls so water drains away from the house, not into next door or across the pavement.
- Porcelain, Indian stone, flagging and block paving
- Full dig-out and compacted MOT Type 1 sub-base
- Correct falls so water runs away from the house
- Driveways designed to drain within your boundary
- Old patios and drives broken out and carted away
- Sunken or rocking flags relaid on fresh full beds
How It Works
Patios & Driveways in Ashton-in-Makerfield, FAQs
If you’ll be driving over the pavement, yes: a dropped kerb needs approval from the council, Wigan for most of Ashton, St Helens for Garswood and Downall Green, and the crossing has to be built to their spec. We’ll tell you at the quote whether your frontage needs one and how the process works.
Yes, sloping plots are solved with levels, steps or a retained terrace, all set out at the design stage. What matters is that the finished surface drains to the right place, and we build the falls in from the sub-base up.
It depends on the size, the material and what we find when we dig. Porcelain costs more than Indian stone, with block paving somewhere between, but the excavation and sub-base are a fair chunk of the price whatever you lay on top. We price per job rather than a blanket rate per square metre, because a small fiddly patio costs more per metre to lay than a big open one, so you get an exact written figure after a free site visit before anything starts.
Usually not. Under permitted development rules you can pave a front garden without permission as long as the surface is permeable, or rainwater drains to a lawn or border 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 doesn’t.
Porcelain is dense, colour-consistent and barely stains, so a porcelain patio stays looking new with almost no upkeep, but it costs more and needs a skilled lay. Indian stone is natural, so every flag varies, and it weathers into the garden nicely at a lower price, though it benefits from an occasional clean and seal. Neither is wrong; it comes down to the look you want and the budget.