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New Build Garden - Slope/Drop
tmaughan94
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Hi,
Does this look like it requires some sort of retaining wall or structure behind to secure our garden? It looks like the fence has been placed right up to the edge of the slope and I’m worried over time the ground will fall away. Some of the soil close to the fence on our side has started to sink and drop away under the fence.
Does this look like it requires some sort of retaining wall or structure behind to secure our garden? It looks like the fence has been placed right up to the edge of the slope and I’m worried over time the ground will fall away. Some of the soil close to the fence on our side has started to sink and drop away under the fence.
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Yes - I would be questioning that with the builder.
Even if the soil is stable (& I'm not sure it is given that it's full of builder's rubble and so not yet settled.) you could have problems with what ever gets planted at the edge inside the fence as the water table will be slanting down that hill and any tree or shrub will struggle (IMHO) to get enough water. And if you water a lot that's just going to wash soil away.
If the builder (or you going over the fence ninja style at night) were to plant something with an extensive root system on the slope side that might do the trick. But it really should be the whole length of the slope, not just in front of the one house that gets cranky about what should have been done better.
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Has it been built in accordance with the approved planning drawings?0
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Whose responsibility is the fence? Can't see that one staying up very long0
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Get hold of the local planning department.
That's unlikely to be in the agreed plan for the site0 -
That looks quite a steep slope is the gaden flat or a continuation upwards? I would have expected some kind of retention to have been included even if it was simply levelling behind the fence and a row of gambions.1
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