Leicester gardens are frequently smaller, frequently overlooked, and frequently reached only by carrying everything through the house. All three of those change how a garden gets designed and how it gets built.

A small garden is harder to design well than a large one, not easier. There is nowhere to hide a mistake, every sightline matters, and the proportions have to be right because you are looking at the whole thing at once from the kitchen window. Getting a small garden to feel larger is mostly about what you do with the boundaries and how you break up the floor — an unbroken run of paving to a fence reads as small, whereas a change of material, a level shift or a planted screen partway down gives the eye somewhere to stop.

Access shapes the price more than anything else here. In the Victorian and Edwardian terraces through Clarendon Park, Highfields, Stoneygate and the West End, there is often no side gate — which means every barrow of muck out and every slab in goes through the hallway. We sheet the route properly and we build the extra labour into the quote honestly rather than discovering it in week one.

Overlooking is the other constant. In tightly packed streets the answer is rarely a taller fence, which just makes the garden feel like a yard. It is usually a screen positioned where you actually sit, blocking one specific sightline, with planting doing the rest.

Towns and areas covered:

Clarendon Park, Stoneygate, Knighton, Oadby, Wigston, Aylestone, Braunstone, Glenfield, Anstey, Birstall, Thurmaston, Syston, Evington, Humberstone, Rushey Mead, Belgrave, Highfields, West End, Narborough Road, Blaby, Countesthorpe, Kirby Muxloe and the surrounding suburbs.

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