Full Landscape and Garden Design Process

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All gardens are different so I start the process off with an initial consultation at your home to understand your requirements for your new garden.

The initial consultation is charged at £80. This will be offset against further design work should you decide to proceed. It involves a site visit in order that a quotation for design work can be drawn up and also gives me the opportunity to view the site and discuss your requirements.

If the site is relatively flat, I can carry out a site survey. For more complex sites a professional site survey may be required. This would be a Topographical survey of the house and boundaries (front & back) plus position of doors and windows to include: 

• Finished Floor Level (FFL) inside the house (Front & Back) 
• Spot heights and contour lines for every 200mm change in level 
• Position of drive, out-buildings, fence line, existing trees, (to include girth and canopy
  spread) paving and ponds etc. (Tree identification would be useful) Flower beds in lawns
  are not required 
• Position of Inspection Chambers with IC & IL spot heights and direction of drainage runs 
• Services entering/leaving building 

After the initial consultation, I will be able to provide you with costs for the following stages.
 

This stage provides you with a proposed plan for the new garden as well as perspective sketches to help you visualise the site. 

It allows you to have input on the proposals based on our mood board discussions and to help shape the final design. (Please have a look at some examples on my website https://jasonshirleygardendesign.com/portfolio)

Once the final design is agreed some customers choose to work with their own contractors or I can deliver the following stages for you. 

These drawings, where applicable (Setting out/Access, Contours/Regrading, Drainage, Irrigation, Lighting and Construction Drawings) are required by the contractors to prepare competitive tenders and to provide detailed information on materials and construction methods. 

Should you wish to go too tender for the work, I would develop a detailed specification document, and invite builders to tender and conclude with a tender report once they have been returned.

A 2D plan showing plant varieties, numbers, sizes, spacing and location. I have a number of wholesale suppliers to provide competitive quotes. I also offer a planting service. If you would like me to help you with this, please let me know. 

Should you wish to, I can oversee the contractor and project overall.