Hocking paving, about 6 km north of Landsdale
Hocking is a suburb of 2000s homes on grey sand just east of Wanneroo Road, about 6 km from IBP Paving's base in Landsdale. We lay brick, limestone and travertine paving, build alfresco areas, relay the first generation of driveways and install soakwells sized to the City of Wanneroo's design rules. Over 20 years of experience in Perth's northern corridor and a lifetime workmanship warranty cover every job.
One cubic metre per 60 square metres: Wanneroo's design rule for runoff
Most Hocking homeowners have seen the City of Wanneroo's simple soakwell size table. Fewer know that the City's engineering specification sets out the rule the table approximates, and it is the number we design to when a lot has a lot of paving.
"Residential lots having a single dwelling must manage small rainfall event runoff from constructed impervious surfaces within the lot." and "Soakwell sizing may be based on 1cum per 60sqm of constructed impervious surface runoff area." The small rainfall event is defined as up to a 1 year average recurrence interval, to be retained or detained as close to the source as possible, and infiltration systems must sit at least 0.3 metres above the maximum groundwater level.
Source: City of Wanneroo, Development Design Specification WD5 Stormwater Drainage Design (June 2019). WD5 is written for designers and subdividers rather than homeowners.
On a Hocking house with 200 square metres of roof and 80 square metres of driveway and alfresco, that is 280 square metres of impervious surface and about 4.7 cubic metres of soakwell. The City's simpler stormwater information sheet, which carries the owner's obligation to confine runoff within the boundary and the table of common soakwell sizes, gets to a similar answer for typical lots. Where a design is borderline we take the larger figure. See our City of Wanneroo soakwell requirements page for both documents and soakwell cost and sizing for what the volumes mean in units and dollars.
Belvedere Hills and Hocking's 2000s estates
Hocking was part of Wanneroo until 1994 and was developed through the 2000s, with Belvedere Hills among its named estates. The housing is single and double storey brick, on lots big enough for a double garage and a decent back yard, and its paving has reached the age where the first problems show.
The lead job is a relay of the original driveway, which has typically dipped at the wheel tracks and beside the soakwell lid. We lift, recompact, add a limestone base under the traffic path and relay the same pavers. Behind the house, alfresco areas are being added or extended, and a plain stretcher bond in a large format paver suits the long rectangular spaces these homes have. Each new roof adds impervious area, so every alfresco quote in Hocking includes soakwell capacity worked out with the rule above.
Sand east of Wanneroo Road and the Lake Joondalup shore
Hocking lies on the Bassendean sand unit, the same grey free draining sand as Wanneroo and Wangara, which is why soakwells work so well across most of the suburb. The western edge is the exception. Hocking runs towards the eastern shore of Lake Joondalup, and the low lots nearest the lake have a higher water table in winter. WD5's requirement to keep infiltration systems 0.3 metres above maximum groundwater is the reason we probe those blocks before quoting and sometimes split one deep soakwell into two shallow ones.
The coast is about 8 km west, outside the strip where salt wind affects pavers, and the suburb has only a bushland edge rather than an interior reserve, so paver choice in Hocking is about looks and load rather than exposure.
Pearsall, Ashby and the Wanneroo fringe
Pearsall, the small suburb directly south of Hocking, was part of Wanneroo until the late 1990s and was built out as a 2000s estate on the same sand, so everything on this page applies to it and we cover Pearsall from here. Ashby to the north is a late 1990s subdivision still finishing, with a mix of new builds and first relays. Across the three suburbs the crossover rules are the City of Wanneroo's: 60 mm heavy duty pavers on a 100 mm crushed limestone base, 3.0 to 6.0 metres wide at the boundary, 1.5 metres from a street tree, and a possible Council contribution to a first crossover if you apply within six months.
Source: City of Wanneroo, Information Sheet, Crossover Brick Paved, Residential (correct as of July 2025).
Suburbs around Hocking
Hocking borders Wanneroo to the north and Woodvale across Wanneroo Road to the west, with Tapping a little further north and Pearsall, Ashby and Wangara close by. All are serviced from Landsdale; see areas we service.
