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Landscaping in Sydney

Sydney is not a uniform place to work. Between everything from flat river plain to steep sandstone escarpment and reactive shale clay in the west, sandstone and sand through the coast and north, two properties in the same street can need quite different approaches to the same job.

Owners in Sydney tend to call us at the point where patching has stopped working. By then the underlying issue is usually level changes that make most of the block unusable, and a repair only postpones it.

There is a pattern to landscaping jobs in Sydney, where the housing is largely the full spread of Sydney housing, from Victorian terrace to new release estate. A whole street tends to reach the same point at the same time.

We are based at Wentworthville and cover Sydney regularly. Call 0492 879 796 to book a site visit and a fixed written quote.

What Usually Brings People To Us

Every landscaping quote we write for Sydney starts on site, with photographs, levels and a walk of the full run. You cannot allow for coastal salt exposure on one side of the city and cracking clay on the other from a satellite image.

• A series of small unconnected jobs that never added up to a finished yard
• A yard that holds water for days after rain
• A garden that has outgrown its original layout
• Level changes that make most of the block unusable

What the relevant local council Controls

Before anything is fabricated for a Sydney property, we check what applies. the relevant local council publishes its controls, and heritage, bushfire and flood mapping can each change the answer entirely.

We can tell you what usually applies around Sydney, and we will always recommend confirming the current position with the relevant local council before you commit. Controls change, and a wrong assumption is expensive to unwind.

Access, Logistics and Site Management

Access shapes the price more than most people realise. Around Sydney we plan around ground conditions that change completely between one side of the basin and the other, which decides whether material comes in on a truck or on a barrow, and that difference runs through the whole program.

Neighbouring properties, verges and driveways get protected. Around Sydney we allow for access constraints that vary from a wide western verge to an inner-west rear lane, because a delivery in the wrong place causes more trouble than it saves.

How We Approach a Sydney Job

Existing survey marks are worth finding before the first hole goes in. A boundary argument costs far more than an hour spent looking, and around Sydney the older subdivisions do not always agree with the plan.

We set out the whole run first, mark the levels, and agree the approach on site before anything is ordered. Once material is cut for a Sydney job it is committed.

• Drainage and stormwater correction
• Lighting and power provision
• Planting schemes suited to the aspect
• Staged works to suit a budget
• Turf, paving and garden bed construction
• Retaining and level changes

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