Garden Design and Landscaping in Long Itchington
Village gardens designed to be used after dark as well as by day
In a village without much street lighting, the garden goes dark early for half the year. Designed lighting changes that completely, and it is one of the elements people most often wish they had planned for from the start rather than added later.
Gardens designed for the evening
What we design and build in Long Itchington
Layout, lighting and planting planned together and shown in 3D.
Porcelain and stone terraces with lighting and power designed in.
Pergolas and gazebos that carry lighting and give evening shelter.
Steps and level changes with lighting built in where people walk.
Composite decks with integrated lights and a clear route back to the house.
Boundaries that can be washed with light and give evening privacy.
Turf or synthetic, chosen for how much the lawn gets used.
Garden drainage in Long Itchington
Village drainage, and why the canal is not an outlet.
A village garden that disappears at five o’clock
Long Itchington has the mix you would expect of a Warwickshire village of its size: an older core around the church, cottages along the lanes, and later housing on the edges. What it does not have, in most streets, is much light after dark — which is part of its appeal and part of the reason gardens here get so little use from October to March.
A garden that is only usable in daylight is a garden you use for half the year. Lighting designed with the layout, rather than a few solar stakes pushed into the border afterwards, extends the evenings you can sit out, makes steps and paths safe, and turns the garden into something you look at from the house on a winter night.
Lighting has to be designed before the paving goes down
Almost every lighting scheme depends on cable routes under paving, through walls and into structures. Once the terrace is laid, that route is gone. So we plan light at the same time as layout: where you sit in the evening, which paths you walk in the dark, what should be seen from the kitchen window, and what should stay dark for the sake of the village and the wildlife.
You see all of it in the 3D visuals, including an evening view, alongside the materials and planting. We adjust it with you until the garden works in both lights, and then agree a price covering everything, including the electrical work.
Warmth and light as part of the design
Outdoor electrics are notifiable work
Garden lighting is an area where the regulations are straightforward but frequently ignored, and the consequences show up later, often when the house is sold.
The general position in England
- A new outdoor circuit is notifiable. Under Part P of the Building Regulations, installing a new electrical circuit, including one run out to a garden, has to be notified to building control.
- The usual route is a registered electrician. An electrician registered with a competent person scheme can self-certify the work and issue the certificate. Otherwise building control has to be involved directly.
- Cable routes and depths matter. Buried cable has to be protected and run at a suitable depth, which is why it belongs in the design before paving and planting go in.
- Low-voltage systems still need a supply. Many garden lights run at low voltage, but the supply feeding the transformer is mains, and that part is still electrical work.
- The certificate matters when you sell. Buyers’ solicitors ask for it.
We are landscapers, not electricians. We design lighting into the scheme, prepare the routes and containment as part of the build, and bring in a registered electrician for the electrical work itself, so the certificate is in your hands at handover.
What goes into the figure
- The hard landscaping. Terraces, paths and walls remain the largest share of most schemes.
- Lighting and electrics. Fittings, cable, containment and the electrician’s time and certification.
- Structures. A pergola, gazebo or fire feature, with its foundations and power.
- Materials. Porcelain and natural stone vary widely in price per square metre.
- Planting. Including anything chosen to be lit, such as grasses and multi-stem trees.
Lighting and electrics sit in the same fixed figure as everything else, not a separate bill at the end.
Why Long Itchington clients choose us
A good garden is designed for how you use it, and in a dark village that includes the evenings.
Light designed with layout
Cable routes and fittings planned before the paving, so nothing has to be lifted to add them later.
An evening view in 3D
You see how the garden will look after dark, not just on a summer afternoon.
Certified electrical work
A registered electrician for anything notifiable, with the certificate handed over at the end.
Insured and experienced
£1M public liability, forty-plus years of combined trade experience, and building gardens since 2015.
Nearby towns and villages
Frequently asked questions
Do you design gardens in Long Itchington?
Yes. We work across Long Itchington, Stockton, Ufton, Bascote and Southam, and out to Leamington Spa, Warwick and Rugby.
Does garden lighting need building regulations approval?
A new electrical circuit run to the garden is notifiable work under Part P of the Building Regulations. In practice that means using an electrician registered with a competent person scheme, who can self-certify it and issue a certificate. We bring one in for that part of the work.
When should lighting be planned?
At the same time as the layout, before any paving is laid. Cable routes run under terraces, through walls and into structures, and once the hard landscaping is down those routes are much harder and more expensive to create.
Will garden lighting disturb the neighbours or wildlife?
It should not, if it is designed properly. Low-level fittings aimed downwards, warm colour temperatures and lighting only what needs to be seen keep the effect in your garden. Leaving parts of the garden dark is as much a design decision as lighting the rest.
Do you offer garden maintenance?
Aftercare is available to our own design-and-build clients, and every build is covered by a 12-month workmanship guarantee. We do not offer maintenance for gardens we have not built.
How long does a project take?
Most complete gardens take two to four weeks on site, with the electrician’s work fitted into the programme so cable goes in before the paving.
What is included in the price?
All of it, including the electrician: labour, plant, materials, planting, lighting and waste removal, fixed once you sign off the design.
Planning a garden in Long Itchington?
Tell us how you would like to use the garden, including after dark. The design, lighting included, comes first; the price follows it.
