Tier 2 coverage, Merseyside
Driveways in Irby
A village mix of old stone cottages with no off street parking and postwar houses with plenty of it.
- Dig depth and sub base stated in writing
- Edge restraint haunched, not just laid
- Drainage designed, not left to the border
Dropped kerbs
The older village core has houses built with no off street parking at all, so creating any means both a drive and a vehicle crossing. The crossing is the council's decision and it comes first, because a refusal makes the whole thing moot.
Block paving driveways
The postwar housing around the core has drives of a standard size, mostly original and mostly now due. Straightforward work where the sub base is the thing that decides the life.
Patios and paths
Village gardens with a lot of existing stone, where a new patio has to sit with what is already there rather than contrast with it.
Groundworks and preparation
Older plots with unknown ground, old footings and sometimes a clay drain run nobody knew about.
What Irby asks for most
Dropped kerbs in Irby
Creating parking where the house was built without it.
Read moreBlock paving driveways in Irby
Postwar drives that are due.
Read morePatios and paths in Irby
Stone that sits with what is already in the garden.
Read moreGroundworks and preparation in Irby
Unknown ground on older plots.
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Questions from Irby
My cottage has no off street parking. Can I create some?
Sometimes, and the council's answer on a vehicle crossing comes before anything else. In a village core, sightlines and the width of the lane are the usual obstacles. Ask first, because the drive is pointless without the crossing.
How long does a dropped kerb application take?
That is the council's process and their timescale rather than ours, and it is measured in weeks rather than days. The practical advice is to start it well before you want the drive built.
Other areas covered
Twelve towns across the peninsula. What decides a driveway here is the plot rather than the postcode: how it falls, what is under it, how wide the frontage is and where the water is going to go.
Across the Wirral peninsula
The west side and the coast
Get a price for a job in Irby
Rough size, what is on it now and which way it falls is enough for a first answer about what is possible.
Get in touch
Tell us roughly how big the area is, what is on it now and which way it falls. A photograph from the pavement and one from the house answers most of it before anybody rings you back.
- Phone0151 453 8836
- Emailcontact@wirraldriveways.com
- WhatsAppSend us a photo of the job
- Based inWirral, Merseyside
- HoursMon to Fri 8 to 6, Sat 8 to 2, closed Sunday