Groundwork & Foundations

Excavating end of garden for driveway - Help on approach

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.08 PM

Hi. Looking for some advice on the best way to achieve what we want. We have a property with no off street parking. The end of the garden backs onto a road so we want to excavate this and build the driveway. Its a Victorian property and has walls for the garden boundaries. The garden is also approx 5ft higher than the road at the back. So we would need to dig out the earth for the driveway area, then build a U shape retaining wall to hold back ours and the neighbour's gardens including the garden wall. Then build steps up to the garden and block pave the drive. Does this seem like the best way to achieve the driveway? The problem is the cost of building the retaining wall as it have to have very deep foundations and be several bricks thick to hold back the weight of the gardens Thanks