Leederville work by arrangement, about 14 km from Landsdale
If you need paving in Leederville, IBP Paving can help, although the suburb sits beyond our usual northern runs. It is about 14 km in a straight line from our base in Landsdale, so we take Leederville work by arrangement and ask for the job details first: a few photos, rough measurements and what you want built. From there we quote brick and stone paving, courtyards, driveways, crossovers and soakwells, backed by over 20 years in the trade and a lifetime workmanship warranty.
A one hour, 1 in 20 year storm: the City of Vincent standard
Vincent does not hand homeowners a table of soakwell sizes. It states an outcome instead, and any drainage we design for a Leederville lot is worked back from it.
"All stormwater generated from commercial, industrial, and residential property is to be retained on-site." For houses, "An on-site retention system capable of accommodating a minimum 1:20-year average recurrence interval (ARI) storm event of one hour is required." Connection to the City's drains "may be approved only in exceptional circumstances".
Source: City of Vincent, Stormwater Drainage Connections policy (amended September 2024).
In practice we add up roof, driveway and courtyard area, then fit enough soakwell storage to hold that storm on the lot. Our Perth soakwell requirements page sets Vincent's approach beside the other councils'.
The street frontage has its own rules. All crossover works and some verge works need City approval before construction, and Vincent publishes specifications for brick paved and concrete crossovers. Driveways and crossovers must be between 3.0 m and 6.0 m wide at the street boundary. The Built Form policy allows one crossover per lot, at most 3 m for a single or 5 m for a double, set 0.5 m off the lot boundary and no closer than 6 m to a street corner, and driveway grade tops out at 25 percent. A subsidy application is valid only if lodged within six months of the crossover being finished. Non permeable verge paving is not permitted at all; a verge parking bay is considered only in exceptional circumstances, must be permeable, meet water sensitive urban design criteria and include at least one verge tree, and the application form caps paving at one third of the verge in brick or concrete unit pavers. Synthetic turf is not an accepted verge finish, and driveways must avoid verge trees.
Sources: City of Vincent, Driveways and Crossovers Planning Information Sheet (May 2024); Local Planning Policy: Built Form; Crossover Subsidy Application; Verge Treatment Policy and Verge Paving Application form.
Oxford Street and the protected streetscape
Leederville's town centre runs along Oxford Street, home to three places on the State Register of Heritage Places: the 1897 Leederville Post Office, the Drill Hall and the former Oddfellows Hall. Beyond the shops, parts of the City are covered by heritage area and character area guidelines whose stated aim is to keep vehicle crossovers and car storage away from the primary streetscape. Which Leederville streets fall inside those areas is something to confirm with the City at the planning stage, so before we sketch a new driveway at a character house we look at whether cars can come in from the side or a rear lane. Where they can, the front garden keeps its path and planting and the hard paving goes behind.
From the Leeder Estate to freeway era infill
The Leeder Estate was subdivided into residential lots in 1891, and many of the older streets appear to keep their character homes. In 1973 the Mitchell Freeway split Leederville in two, and newer infill and town centre redevelopment now seem to sit among the original houses. The work follows that mix. Character homes usually call for courtyard paving in clay brick, garden paths to the front door and relays of old brick that has sunk or rolled over the decades. Newer infill tends to need a narrow driveway kept inside the City's width limits, with drainage that keeps every litre of runoff on a small lot. On a period home we match the brick paving to the house in colour and bond rather than reaching for a modern grey.
Sand over limestone, and the old Lake Georgianna ground
Most of Leederville is thought to sit on Spearwood sand over Tamala Limestone, which usually drains well and gives soakwells a good start, though a deep dig may strike limestone. The exception is the low ground. Leederville lies on the edge of the former Perth wetlands, and Lake Georgianna, south of today's Leederville Oval, was drained by convict labour. Lots in that lower country may still hold shallow groundwater, so we check levels there before fixing soakwell depth and may spread the storage across more, shallower units. The coast is roughly 8.5 km west, too far for salt to affect paver choice, and bushfire rules do not normally come into it.
Mount Hawthorn, North Perth and across the freeway
Leederville borders Mount Hawthorn to the north and North Perth to the east, with West Leederville and Wembley across the freeway to the west. Each is handled on the same by arrangement basis; the full list is on areas we service.
