Family Tree
Grounds Maintenance & Construction
Garden builds, regular upkeep and fencing in Caversham, from a family business about eleven miles north-west in Wallingford.
Our base in Wallingford is about eleven miles north-west of Caversham, around twenty-five minutes away by road. Tilehurst and Purley on Thames are both to Caversham’s west, and Sonning Common is to its north.
Caversham has no civil parish of its own: its centre lies in Reading’s Caversham ward, which puts planning with Reading Borough Council, as at Tilehurst’s centre. All three of our services (garden builds, regular maintenance and fencing) are available in Caversham.
Patios · decking · garden builds
Paths, patios and decks, sleeper beds and brickwork, and whole-garden makeovers. Caversham’s centre is mapped on Langley Silt, which the British Geological Survey says varies from silt to clay, so it’s worth knowing what lies underneath before a patio base goes down.
More on constructionMowing · hedges · clearance
Lawns mown, hedges cut, beds weeded and gardens cleared, on contract or one-off, with new lawns from turf, seed or artificial grass too. Within half a kilometre the map moves between silt, river gravel and open chalk, so one garden’s soil may tell you little about the next.
More on garden maintenanceCloseboard · panels · gates
Closeboard and panel fences, post and rail and gates, for gardens and for land. The centre isn’t in a conservation area, but St Peter’s is about 0.2 km away; inside it, taking down an existing fence, wall or gate might need permission.
More on fencingFrom Caversham we also cover Caversham Heights and Chazey Heath to the north-west, plus Emmer Green and Tokers Green.
Binfield Heath and Shiplake lie to the north-east, and Tilehurst is about three miles west. Wallingford, where we’re based, is about eleven miles north-west.
Family tree did a mix of hard works ( Patio extension ) and soft planting for us as well as sourcing and installing a garden shed. So a wide variety of garden tasks. We now have a fabulous base for furniture and planted out boarders ready for the summer, the Family tree guys are extremely friendly and also extremely conscientious of getting the foundations just right so our patio is perfectly flat and level just what we wanted, thanks guys.
Great job done by Family Tree Grounds Maintenance & Construction. Very professional, polite, friendly and hard working. Thank you, guys, I would recommend to everyone and would use again.
Highly recommend Jamie and his team. Very professional, hard working, polite and did a great job
Langley Silt · chalk · river gravel · alluvium
Caversham’s centre is mapped on chalk covered by Langley Silt, a deposit the British Geological Survey describes as ranging from silt to clay, commonly yellow-brown. The same silt is mapped half a kilometre to the east, south-east and south-west.
Elsewhere on that half-kilometre ring the picture changes: river gravel to the north-east and north-west, alluvium (clay, silt, sand and gravel laid down by running water) to the south, and open chalk at the north and west points. The Thames is about 0.3 km south-west of the centre. With that much variety, what you find in one garden is a poor guide to the next.
Reading Borough Council · St Peter’s · Surley Row
Reading Borough Council handles planning in Caversham, which has no civil parish. The centre isn’t in a conservation area, but St Peter’s is about 0.2 km away and Surley Row about 1 km, so look up your address first if tree work or a change to a front boundary is planned. Inside a conservation area, the council needs six weeks’ notice of tree work, with an exemption for trees less than 75 mm across at a height of 1.5 m.
No National Landscape covers Caversham; the nearest, the Chilterns, has its boundary about 2 km from the centre. Away from conservation areas, fences, walls and gates up to two metres, or one metre beside a road used by vehicles, don’t normally need planning permission, and a garden building within two metres of a boundary is limited to 2.5 metres in height under permitted development.
Sources: British Geological Survey, Natural England and planning.data.gov.uk (open data); the Planning Portal, GOV.UK and the RHS. The Planning Portal is a guide — your council has the final word for your address.
Yes. Caversham is about eleven miles from us in Wallingford, around twenty-five minutes by road. Phone us on 07736 650477, or use WhatsApp, to talk about your garden.
Reading Borough Council. Caversham has no civil parish (its centre falls in Reading’s Caversham ward), so the borough council is the one to ask about your address.
No, but the St Peter’s conservation area is about 0.2 km away and Surley Row’s about 1 km. Inside one, tree work needs six weeks’ notice to the council, and removing a fence, wall or gate might need permission.
Emmer Green, Caversham Heights, Tokers Green and Chazey Heath, plus Tilehurst, Purley on Thames, Sonning Common and Binfield Heath.
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