Parklane Landscaping is based ten miles away in Dorking and has been building brick and block into Surrey gardens for years, on jobs ranging from a single raised bed to full retaining structures throughout a terraced plot. Dan leads every project personally, and has built walls for clients dealing with everything from a filled-in swimming pool to a garden that simply would not stay flat. The company covers Cobham alongside Esher, Oxshott, Claygate and the wider KT postcode area, and brickwork sits alongside paving, driveways and decking as one of the four core services.
Cobham’s gardens fall into two rough camps. There are the older plots around Church Cobham and Church Street, often narrow and sloped, where a retaining wall or a set of brick steps solves a genuine access problem. Then there are the newer estates and gated roads off Anyards Road and the Fairmile, where a boundary wall is more with respect to privacy and matching a substantial house than solving a level change.
Parklane Landscaping already has a track record in Cobham itself. One client asked for a filled-in swimming pool to be turned into a new sun terrace, a job the team has since been asked back to twice, once for additional screening and once for a driveway. Repeat instructions like that are usually the clearest sign a company got the first job right.
“Daniel was a bit shocked to hear our request to fill in our swimming pool at first. However, the suggestions of what to do with the area in filling it all and turning it into a new sun terrace were brilliant. We’ve even now had them back to install additional screening and have booked them in to do our drive.”
For brickwork specifically, two recent jobs elsewhere in Surrey show the standard we bring to Cobham gardens. In Gomshall, the team built two large retaining wall sections in reinforced block, rendered to finish, as part of a bigger renovation. In Leigh, new brick dividing walls created two separate paved levels, each with a matching raised planter. Both jobs used the same groundwork, drainage and finishing that goes into every enquiry, wherever in Surrey it comes from.
A single raised bed or short garden wall can be finished in a day or two once materials are on site. A full retaining wall across a sloped plot, the kind common near the river, usually needs longer for groundwork and drainage before the brickwork itself goes up. We give a realistic timeframe as part of the quote, not a guess.
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We chose Parklane following a recommendation and during the initial consultation, we stressed that we needed the work completed by a set date due to a very important 40th Birthday party we had planned, no pressure!!! The owner, Dan was honest with us and promised he would complete the job on time but this would require them completing the work in stages which we were happy with and also completely understood due to us leaving the request to the last minute, top tip as they are a busy company, consult with them early as they are in demand!!! As promised the work was completed on time and the finished product is amazing. The team that completed the work were friendly, neat and professional. I even caught one of them washing the front of the house after mixing some mortar which was not expected and shows their pride. The end product rendered us speechless, we were so pleased with the result and the reactions from our party guests were as expected, everyone wanted Parklanes number… I would fully recommend Parklane and we are completely satisfied with their work.
