Award-Winning Family-Run Driveways & Paving

Yes — properly. Hampshire Driveways has been owned and run by the same Hampshire family since 1996. When you call us you speak to family members, when we quote it’s the family team that visits, and the same family team installs every driveway. No franchise, no sales reps, no subcontractors we’ve never met.

Block paving offers the most flexibility on pattern and colour, and individual blocks can be lifted and replaced. Tarmac is the most cost-effective on larger areas and is extremely hard-wearing. Resin is the modern, low-maintenance choice with a seamless finish. Traditional Hampshire homes tend to suit block paving, modern builds suit resin, and larger shared accesses suit tarmac with block-paved borders.

Since 2008, planning permission is required if you’re creating a non-permeable driveway over 5 square metres that drains onto the public highway. The solutions are: use a permeable surface like resin-bound or permeable block paving, route water to a soakaway on your own land, or install a linear drain connected to existing drainage. Most of our installations are designed to be SUDS-compliant from the start.

Most residential driveway installations from our family team take 5-10 working days, depending on size, materials, drainage requirements and weather. Larger projects with walls or substantial groundwork may run two to three weeks. We give you a written schedule with your quote so you know exactly what to expect.

Our family team covers the whole of Hampshire and the surrounding counties — including Fareham, Winchester, Southampton, Portsmouth, Petersfield, Eastleigh, Gosport, Romsey, Hamble, Hayling Island, Basingstoke, Chichester, and the New Forest.

Bigger firms typically subcontract the actual installation work. With our family business, the people who own the company are the people who install your driveway. That means clearer accountability, better workmanship, fairer pricing (no sales commission layered on top), and someone who’ll still be here to take your call in five years’ time if you need anything.

It depends on size, materials, drainage, edgings, and any walls or extras. As a rough family-business guide: a small block paved driveway typically starts from around £3,500, mid-size driveways with proper drainage and edging tend to be £6,000-£12,000, and large or premium driveways with walls, lighting or 3D-designed details range upwards from there. We always provide a full written quote at no charge.