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Patios, decking, lawns, hedges and fencing in Marlow, from a family business about fifteen and a half miles west in Wallingford.
Marlow is the furthest place we list: about fifteen and a half miles east of Wallingford, where our base is, and around thirty-five minutes by road. Turville is about six miles to the north-west, and Henley-on-Thames is about six miles away.
Like Turville, Marlow comes under Buckinghamshire Council, and the town centre is in the Marlow Conservation Area. The work is the same here as nearer home: garden builds, regular maintenance and fencing.
Patios · decking · garden builds
Decking, patios, paths, brickwork and sleeper beds, or a garden made over from scratch. The town centre is mapped on Taplow Gravel, a river sand and gravel, with chalk beneath, and gravel like this tends to drain freely.
More on constructionMowing · hedges · clearance
Grass cut, hedges trimmed, weeds and clearance dealt with, regularly or as a single visit, and new lawns in turf, seed or artificial grass. On sand and gravel, the RHS notes, soil drains quickly after rain or watering and is easy to cultivate and work.
More on garden maintenanceCloseboard · panels · gates
Fences for gardens and for land, in closeboard, panels or post and rail, with gates as well. Inside the Marlow Conservation Area, you might need permission before taking down an existing fence, wall or gate.
More on fencingAround Marlow we also cover Bovingdon Green, about a mile to the west, and Medmenham, about three miles away.
Turville lies to the north-west, while Shiplake and Binfield Heath both lie south-west; Wallingford, our base, is about fifteen and a half miles west.
Jamie, Sam and their team were great guys to work with. Cheerful, speedy and talented landscapers. They transformed my garden from something ordinary to a beautiful tidy haven, with just the right amount of hard and soft landscaping as well as beautiful planting to enhance the house and the south facing aspect of the back garden. We can’t wait to spend time dining outdoors in the summer in our rejuvenated space. Thank you !
Jamie and team were fantastic at clearing up our entire front garden and drive way. They were very reasonably priced, took all the waste away and carried out the work professionally. Would highly recommend them to anyone considering any garden renovations or other types of work.
Just completed large split-level limestone patio, planters, fencing and new widened gravel drive with sleeper border. Really pleased with all the work. Jamie and the team are easy to get on with, hard working and accommodating of changes we made to the design. Would definitely use them again. Responsiveness, Punctuality, Quality, Professionalism, Value
Taplow Gravel · Shepperton Gravel · New Pit Chalk
Marlow’s centre sits on Taplow Gravel over New Pit Chalk, a blocky, white, firm to moderately hard chalk in the British Geological Survey’s description. The gravel itself is sand and gravel, in places with lenses of silt, clay or peat.
Half a kilometre out, the map changes to Shepperton Gravel (gravel with clay and sand) through the north-east, east, south-east, south and south-west, on the side towards the Thames (about 0.6 km from the centre). To the west and north-west, no deposit is mapped over the chalk at all.
Marlow Conservation Area · Buckinghamshire Council
The town centre is in the Marlow Conservation Area. That makes it designated land, so a garden building beside the house needs planning permission; Buckinghamshire Council also needs six weeks’ warning of tree work (small trees, under 75 mm across at 1.5 m, are exempt), and you might need consent to remove a fence, wall or gate.
Marlow’s centre sits outside the Chilterns National Landscape, about 0.7 km from its boundary, though about 13% of the parish lies inside it, so it’s worth confirming your address before planning a garden building. Outside the conservation area, a fence, wall or gate can usually go up without planning permission if it’s no taller than two metres, or one metre next to a road.
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. Marlow is the furthest place we list, about fifteen and a half miles from Wallingford and around thirty-five minutes by road. Ring 07736 650477 or send us a few details of the job on WhatsApp.
Buckinghamshire Council. The town centre is in the Marlow Conservation Area, so the council wants six weeks’ notice of tree work, and permission may be needed before a fence, wall or gate is taken down.
The town centre isn’t: it’s about 0.7 km outside the Chilterns National Landscape. About 13% of Marlow parish is inside it, though, and at those addresses permitted development caps garden buildings more than 20 metres from the house at 10 square metres altogether.
Yes. We cover Bovingdon Green and Medmenham as well as Marlow itself, and Turville, Henley-on-Thames, Shiplake and Binfield Heath are on our list too.
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