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Patios and decking, garden care and fencing in Harwell, from a family business about seven miles east in Wallingford.
Harwell is on the western edge of where we work, about seven miles from our base and around twenty minutes by road. Didcot lies about two miles east, and Blewbury about three miles to the south-east.
Like Blewbury, it comes under the Vale of White Horse District Council, and the village centre is in the Harwell Conservation Area. In Harwell we do the lot: patios, decking and garden builds, mowing and hedges, fencing and gates.
Patios · decking · garden builds
Sleeper beds, brickwork, paths, decking and patios, up to a complete makeover of the garden. Like Didcot’s, Harwell’s centre sits on Upper Greensand, a calcareous sandstone and siltstone, with no superficial deposit over it.
More on constructionMowing · hedges · clearance
Hedge-cutting, mowing, weeding and clearing up, ongoing or one-off, and new lawns from turf, from seed or artificial. Soft, marly chalk is mapped within half a kilometre to the south and south-west, and chalky soils, in the RHS’s words, are largely made up of calcium carbonate and very alkaline.
More on garden maintenanceCloseboard · panels · gates
Closeboarding and panels, post and rail, and gates, for both gardens and land. In the Harwell Conservation Area, check before an old fence, wall or gate comes down, as removing one might need permission.
More on fencingFrom Harwell we also cover Rowstock to the west, West Hagbourne to the south-east and Sutton Courtenay to the north.
Dorchester-on-Thames and Berinsfield lie to the north-east, with Wallingford, our base, about seven miles to the east.
Relayed a patio with new slabs and built some steps. A nice neat job, friendly and tidy workers, completed as scheduled. Would certainly use again. Responsiveness, Quality, Professionalism
A phenomenal job done clearing a severely overgrown and neglected garden. Quick, thorough, friendly no-fuss service. 100% recommend
The team came so quickly when I couldn’t find anyone else and they did a fantastic job. The whole job was done before I even got back from the school run and they left nothing behind! Just a beautifully trimmed wisteria Thanks so much
Upper Greensand · West Melbury Marly Chalk
Upper Greensand underlies Harwell’s centre, with nothing mapped over it: in British Geological Survey terms, fine-grained sand and sandstone with silt. The greensand continues for half a kilometre in most directions.
The exception is the south and south-west, where West Melbury Marly Chalk comes in, soft and marly in the BGS’s own words. Expect alkaline soil on the chalk; chalky soils range from light to heavy, according to the RHS.
Harwell Conservation Area · 40% of the parish in the Downs
The village centre is in the Harwell Conservation Area, where the council needs six weeks’ notice before tree work (trees below 75 mm in diameter at 1.5 m don’t count) and removing a fence, wall or gate may need permission. Because a conservation area counts as designated land, any outbuilding to the side of a house needs planning permission there too.
Harwell’s centre is about 0.6 km outside the North Wessex Downs National Landscape; even so, around 40% of the parish lies within it. At those addresses, the 10-square-metre limit applies to outbuildings more than 20 metres from the house.
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 — Harwell is at the western edge of where we work, about seven miles from Wallingford and around twenty minutes by road. Message or call us on 07736 650477 to get things moving.
Partly. The village centre is about 0.6 km outside the National Landscape, but about 40% of Harwell parish is inside. If your address is, an outbuilding at the side of the house can’t go up without planning permission, and ones more than 20 metres from it are capped at 10 square metres in total.
Both are covered, and so is West Hagbourne. Rowstock, West Hagbourne and Sutton Courtenay sit alongside Didcot, Blewbury, Dorchester-on-Thames and Berinsfield on our list.
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