East Victoria Park jobs, taken by arrangement
East Victoria Park lies about 20 km south of IBP Paving in Landsdale. Because that is well beyond our usual northern area, we take jobs here by arrangement. Tell us about the work first, including the area, the current surface and how we get in, and we will let you know whether we can schedule it. Driveways, courtyards, paths, relays and soakwells in East Victoria Park carry the same lifetime workmanship warranty as our local jobs, and the crew brings over 20 years of experience to each one.
Estates from Bickford to Victoria Heights
East Victoria Park was divided up from the early 1900s in a run of small subdivisions, among them the Bickford Estate, Brixton Township, Canterbury Park and Hillcrest Estate. After the Second World War the Millen Estate added war service homes, and the Victoria Heights estate followed in the late 1990s. Most streets therefore show several generations of house.
Each generation brings its own kind of job. Older character homes usually want a courtyard or a garden path in a clay brick that suits the house. Postwar homes are typically on a worn concrete strip or a broken brick drive, replaced with a new paved driveway on a proper base. The late 1990s homes at Victoria Heights may be at the age where original pavers have dipped along the wheel tracks, which calls for a lift and relay. Infill blocks, where one house becomes two or three, need new shared driveways and fresh soakwell capacity.
Free draining sand away from the river
Unlike its western neighbour, East Victoria Park has no river frontage; one edge is the Armadale and Thornlie railway line. Most of the suburb is likely to sit on sand where the Spearwood and Bassendean systems meet, and it usually drains freely, with the water table generally several metres down. That suits soakwells and lets us use standard depths on most lots. Compacted under a crushed limestone base the sand gives a stable subgrade, so a well built driveway here stays flat for a long time. Where older paving has been heaved by roots we cut out the cause and relay over a new base, and if a street tree is involved the Town's approval comes first. Our lifted pavers and tree roots page explains the repair.
Keeping every drop on the lot
The Town of Victoria Park does not let homes in developments of four units or fewer send stormwater to the street. All of it is kept on the property: no road drainage connection, and no bubble ups at the kerb. The volume rule is simple to apply.
Multiply the impervious area in square metres by 0.0150 to get the soakwell capacity in cubic metres, counting permeable pavers as impervious. Roof water soakwells must be at least 900 mm in diameter and 600 mm deep, in concrete. Units sit no closer than their own depth to walls, footings, fences, boundaries, roads and services, and a soakwell inside a driveway takes a grated trafficable lid that is never paved over.
Source: Town of Victoria Park, Onsite Stormwater Drainage Requirements Sheet (revision 20 June 2024).
Take a postwar house with 160 square metres of roof, a new 60 square metre driveway and a 30 square metre patio. That is 250 square metres of impervious area and 3.75 cubic metres of storage, usually split over two or three units placed to clear the setbacks. Our soakwell installation page covers the units, and soakwell requirements across Perth compares councils.
Tree protection zones, verges and crossovers
The Town's Local Planning Policy 39 gives a tree protection zone a minimum radius of 2 metres and a minimum depth of 1 metre, and the only surface allowed to encroach on it is one that is both trafficable and permeable. Street trees must not be pruned or interfered with without approval. On the verge, pavers are capped at a quarter of the verge area excluding the crossover and must not form a parking area, artificial turf is not permitted, each treatment needs the Town's approval, and with no footpath the treatment stays 1.5 metres back from the road.
Crossovers may be built in in situ concrete, limecrete, exposed aggregate or approved brick or block paving, up to 6 metres wide or 40 percent of the frontage, whichever governs. If your own contractor builds it, the Town must approve it first. For the first crossover on a lot, the subsidy is worked out with reference to 50 percent of a standard 3 metre by 4 metre in situ concrete crossover.
Source: Town of Victoria Park, Local Planning Policy 39 Tree Planting and Retention, Street Verge Guide (December 2020) and Policy 205 Vehicle Crossovers (May 2024).
The Edward Millen precinct and the suburbs around it
The Edward Millen Home, originally the Rotunda Hospital, is a Federation Queen Anne precinct on the State Register of Heritage Places. Enquiries from Carlisle, Kensington, Bentley, St James and Welshpool are welcome on the same basis as East Victoria Park. Pages for Victoria Park, Como and South Perth cover the suburbs to the west, and areas we service lists the rest.
