What IBP Paving does in Pearsall
Pearsall is about 5 km north west of our yard in Landsdale, close enough that we treat it as part of our home patch. For Pearsall homeowners we relay and extend driveways, pave alfresco and entertaining areas, lay paths down the side of the house, pave verges within the council rules and add soakwells where new roofs and paving have outgrown the old ones. We bring over 20 years of local experience to each job and back the work with a lifetime workmanship warranty.
Twenty years on: the first relays
Until the late 1990s Pearsall was simply the southernmost part of Wanneroo. Its streets look typical of estate building from the 2000s that probably followed: brick and tile homes with double garages, paved driveways and a back yard sized for a patio. That paving is now old enough to show its age. The common complaint is a driveway that has dropped along the wheel tracks or beside a soakwell lid, with a few pavers rocking near the garage.
In most cases the pavers themselves are fine. We lift them, rebuild and compact the base, and relay the same pavers, which keeps the house looking as it did when it was new. Our sunken paving repair page explains why the dips appear. The other popular job is a larger alfresco area off the family room, often paired with a path to the side gate in matching pavers, and sometimes a widened driveway for a third car or a trailer.
Nature strips, crossovers and street trees
Pearsall comes under the City of Wanneroo, and several of its rules apply directly to paving at the front of the lot. On the verge, the City's nature strip guidelines allow brick paving or concrete on a residential verge laid at a positive 2 percent gradient, and they rule out gravel, crushed brick and loose stones.
Crossovers must be at least 1.5 m from a City tree, and the City may consider a 0.5 m reduction. The tree policy is clear that a tree being in the way of a non essential crossover or verge paving is not a reason to remove it. A residential crossover is 3.0 to 6.0 m wide at the property line, at least 1.0 m from the common boundary and no closer than 7.5 m to a street corner.
Sources: City of Wanneroo, Nature Strip (Verge) Treatment Guidelines; Council Policy, City Tree Policy (approved 10 December 2024); Information Sheet, Crossover Brick Paved, Residential (correct as of July 2025).
Behind the front fence, the City's stormwater sheet requires owners to keep runoff from roofs and paving within the property and recommends setting soakwells back from buildings and boundaries by at least their own width. It notes they are not recommended in narrow clearances, which rules out many side passages. When an alfresco roof is added we size new soakwells to the City's table and find a spot in the yard that meets the setback. Our City of Wanneroo soakwell requirements page has the full rules.
Source: City of Wanneroo, Information Sheet, Stormwater Runoff (correct as of July 2019).
Willespie Drive and Pearsall's parks
Pearsall has a run of small parks: Covent, Salitage, Willespie, Voyager and Ashbrook, with Pearsall Primary School on Willespie Drive. For homes that back onto or face one of these reserves, the boundary is often where people want to spend time, and a paved seating area or a garden path to a rear gate makes that side of the yard usable. We keep finished levels below the fence line and fall the paving back towards the house drainage so runoff never spills onto public open space.
Bassendean sand and how deep we dig
Most of Pearsall probably sits on grey Bassendean sand, likely on the Gnangara Mound, with the water table usually several metres down. Our sources name no major wetland in the suburb. That makes it easy ground for paving: we excavate to suit the load, lay and compact a crushed limestone base under driveways, screed the bedding sand and lock the edges with a concrete haunch. Soakwells drain freely in this sand, so the size is set mainly by your roof and paved area. The coast is roughly 8 km away, too far for salt to be a concern, and we know of no bushland edge to plan around, though the DFES bushfire prone map is worth a check.
Hocking, Woodvale and other neighbours
Pearsall borders Hocking and Woodvale, with Wanneroo and Sinagra a short way north. We cover all of them from Landsdale, and the complete list is on areas we service.
