A dependable groundworks package for new housing
Housing programmes rely on the groundworks moving in the right sequence. Roads and drainage need to open the site, plots need to be ready when the build team expects them, and external works must follow without holding up completions. We provide a practical regional groundworks service for small and medium-sized residential developments across Yorkshire.
Our scope can start with site clearance and reduced-level excavation and continue through plot foundations, drainage, service trenches, roads and final external works. We are comfortable pricing a complete package on smaller schemes or taking a clearly defined section of a larger development.
Typical works include:
- Site clearance, cut and fill and formation preparation
- Strip, trench-fill and engineered foundations
- Ground beams, concrete slabs and retaining structures
- Foul and surface-water drainage, chambers and attenuation
- Incoming services, ducting and utility trenches
- Estate roads, kerbing, drives and parking areas
- Plot drainage, thresholds and external levels
- Fencing, landscaping preparation and final external works
Working with drawings, levels and programme dates
Before pricing, we review the available drawings, ground investigation, drainage design, levels and build programme. That helps identify risks such as unsuitable material, groundwater, restricted access or a drainage connection that controls the whole sequence.
Once work starts, the site team records progress and keeps a direct line open with the contracts manager or site manager. Plant allocation is planned around the programme rather than hired job by job, and our own machinery gives us more control when priorities change.
Smaller developments and difficult infill sites
Not every housing scheme is a large estate. We are well suited to rural exception sites, private developments, barn-conversion plots and compact infill projects where access and neighbour management matter as much as production rate.
On constrained sites we can phase excavation, muck away, concrete and material deliveries to keep access usable. We will also be clear where temporary works, specialist engineering or further investigation is required before a safe fixed price can be agreed.
Tendering and pre-construction support
Send us the drawings, schedule and proposed start date and we will review the package properly. If the design is still developing, we can help with buildability, likely plant requirements and sequencing before the tender is finalised.
We cover Harrogate, York, Leeds, Ripon, Northallerton, Thirsk and the wider Yorkshire region from our Knaresborough base.
