Driveways in Bebington

The original nine foot drive, and the car that no longer fits

Bebington is largely interwar, and the drives that came with those houses were sized for the cars of the nineteen thirties. A strip down the side of the house wide enough for an Austin Seven is not wide enough to open a modern door against a boundary wall, which is why so many of these jobs are about widening rather than resurfacing.

Widening usually means taking out a garden wall, a hedge or a border, and sometimes moving a manhole. It is worth measuring what you actually need rather than what fits: a drive you can walk down with shopping is about half a metre wider than a drive a car technically fits on.

Mature gardens, and the roots under them

Tree lined roads mean tree roots, and on these plots they are often under exactly where the drive is going. Excavating through a root plate can kill a mature tree, and if it is a street tree or protected it is not your decision to make.

There are ways round it, including a no dig build up and a permeable surface that lets the root plate breathe, and they cost more than digging would have. What we will not do is cut through a protected root system and leave you with the consequences.

Port Sunlight, where the front garden is part of a listed setting

Port Sunlight sits inside Bebington and is a conservation area of listed buildings. Front boundaries, surfaces and parking are controlled there in a way they are nowhere else on the peninsula, and the answer to almost any driveway question is that it needs asking first.

That is the council's answer rather than ours. We will tell you plainly at the quote when what you are describing is something to ask about before anything is ordered.

Keeping it looking right afterwards

Block paving under a tree canopy gets green, and that is weathering rather than a fault. Cleaning and re-sanding it is a different trade and we would point you at wirralexteriorcleaning.com rather than quote for it ourselves.