Doncaster & South Yorkshire
Garden design · Doncaster & South Yorkshire
A garden layout designed by the contractor who will construct it, so the design is buildable, the levels work, and the price you are shown is the price of the thing on the drawing.
20 years' experience · fully insured · every project backed by a 2-year workmanship guarantee
20 years
Trading experience
Team of 11
Directly employed
£2m / £10m
Public & employers' liability
2-year guarantee
10-year warranty on request
CSCS · NVQ 6
SSSTS & NHBC Masterclass
Overview
Designs produced in isolation from construction are where garden budgets go wrong. A drawing can propose a terrace that needs two metres of retaining, or a level change nobody has costed. Surefoot designs and builds, so the layout you approve is one we already know how to construct, at a price built from the actual groundwork it requires. Bespoke design is included as part of our landscaping projects.
Site survey and level assessment, a layout worked around your use of the space, zoning for dining, seating, planting, play and storage, hard and soft landscaping specification, structures and feature planning, drainage strategy and a construction sequence, all followed by the build itself.
Homeowners in Doncaster and South Yorkshire with a garden that does not work: awkward levels, dead corners, no usable seating area, or a space that has never been planned as a whole.
Before spending money on individual elements piecemeal, after an extension has changed the shape and levels of the plot, and when a sloping or waterlogged garden needs a strategy rather than another patch of paving.
Good garden design is constrained by drainage, retaining, access and sunlight, not just taste. Designing with the construction knowledge of a groundworks and masonry contractor means the scheme accounts for footings, falls and buildability from the first sketch.
What it costs to get wrong
The costly failure in garden design is not an ugly layout, it is a beautiful one that cannot be built for the money.
A drawing that ignores a metre of fall across the plot hides tens of thousands in retaining and excavation. You find out at tender stage, having already paid for the design.
Buying a patio one year, a wall the next and a lawn after that means paying twice where they meet, and ending up with a garden of unrelated parts.
Seating positioned where the sun never reaches by evening, a dining area too far from the kitchen door, no storage designed in, and nowhere for children to play that is not in the middle of the route to the shed.
Designing before surveying levels, ignoring drainage entirely, specifying materials without seeing them against the house, and leaving no allowance for services to lighting, power or water in features.
Our process
Tell us who uses the garden, when, and what currently stops you using it. Photographs and rough dimensions get us started.
We take levels, assess soil, drainage, aspect, boundaries and access, and identify what the ground will and will not allow.
A layout with zones, levels, structures and surfaces proposed, with materials chosen to sit with your property rather than fight it.
The design priced as a build, with the construction sequence set out so you know what happens in what order and why.
We construct the scheme with our own team, walk it with you at completion, and back it with a 2-year workmanship guarantee, with a 10-year warranty available on request.
What you get
Designed by the people who will construct it, so nothing on the drawing is a surprise on site.
Design and build under one contractor rather than a designer, a groundworker and a landscaper with three sets of assumptions.
The scheme starts from what the ground is doing, which is what determines whether the finished garden holds up.
Surfaces, drainage and access planned so the garden is usable outside of a good summer.
Brick, stone and paving chosen against your elevation, by bricklayers who work with those materials daily.
A 2-year workmanship guarantee on the built scheme, with a 10-year warranty available on request.
In detail
Design decisions on a South Yorkshire garden are dominated by slope, soil and drainage. These are the elements a scheme typically resolves.
Cut and fill to create usable terraces, retaining wall positions and heights, step runs and ramp gradients, and thresholds tied to house and extension DPC levels.
Falls across paved areas, channel drainage positions, soakaway sizing, land drainage for waterlogged lawns, and where surface water can legitimately discharge.
Dining and seating positioned for evening sun, routes from the kitchen door that stay usable in the wet, play areas, storage, bin and bike access, and screening of the parts nobody wants to look at.
Facing brick, natural stone, porcelain, clay pavers, timber and metal edging, decorative aggregate and planting beds, coordinated so the garden reads as one scheme with the house.
Outdoor kitchens, firepits, seating walls, raised beds, pergola and garden building bases, sunken trampolines, and the conduit runs for lighting, power and water that have to be laid before the surfacing.
Private gardens are designed around a household's routine. Commercial and communal spaces are designed around traffic volume, maintenance cost and durability. Both start with the same survey of levels, drainage and access.
£2,000,000 public liability and £10,000,000 employers' liability cover, with a 2-year workmanship guarantee on every project and a 10-year warranty available on request.
Questions
Anything not covered here, call Michael on +44 7856 247499 and ask.
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Send photographs and tell us how you want to use the space. We will survey the levels, propose a layout, and price the build in writing.
Fully insured · CSCS, SSSTS, NVQ Level 6 & NHBC Masterclass · 2-year workmanship guarantee
