Paving West Leederville from our Landsdale base
West Leederville sits about 15 km in a straight line from IBP Paving in Landsdale, a fair way south of the suburbs we work in day to day. We still take jobs here, by arrangement: send us the details first, with photos and approximate measurements, and we will tell you whether we can take it on before anyone books a visit. What we offer is the same as in our home area, namely brick and stone paving, courtyards, driveways, crossovers and soakwells, built on over 20 years of trade experience and guaranteed by a lifetime workmanship warranty.
Hill of Tara and the lake outlook
Most of West Leederville is old, but one pocket is not. The Hill of Tara subdivision was laid out in the 1990s around the Catholic Education Centre on Ruislip Street, and its larger homes, many with views over Lake Monger, are the suburb's newest. Homes of that age may now be due for their first round of paving work: driveways that have settled near the soakwell lids, entertaining areas being enlarged, and front paths redone in stone. The lake, which reverted to its original name Galup in 2025, borders the suburb to the north.
Sand over limestone, and the lake side lots
West Leederville is thought to share its ground with Wembley next door: Spearwood sand, generally fast draining, lying over Tamala Limestone. That suits soakwells, with one practical caveat, which is that a hole dug deep enough may meet limestone and slow the job. On the lots nearest Galup the water table is typically shallower, and a soakwell base sitting in groundwater cannot do its work, so on that side we measure first and may use more units at a shallower depth. The coast is roughly 7.5 km away, so salt does not drive paver choice, and bushfire rules are not usually a factor.
What the Town of Cambridge asks for
The Town does not publish a residential soakwell sizing rule that we could locate, so we confirm on site retention with the Town for each job and size the soakwells to the lot and its soil. Our Perth soakwell requirements page shows what other councils set. For the frontage, the Town's rules are specific:
| Item | Town of Cambridge rule |
|---|---|
| Approval | Needed before any new or rebuilt crossover; an officer inspects and issues a specification |
| Materials | Concrete, clay bricks or other approved material |
| Width | At least 3.0 m at the property line; at most 4.5 m at the kerb including splays east of Selby Street |
| Clearances | 0.75 m from a side boundary, 7.3 m from an intersection, 3 m from the face of a street tree |
| Contribution | Half the cost of a first standard crossover, 3.0 m wide in grey pre mixed concrete |
| Verge parking paving | Approval required; only where two cars cannot fit on site; up to 18 square metres or 10 percent of the verge |
| Verge materials | Small format pavers preferred, porous pavers strongly recommended, no large slabs, no paving within 1.5 m of a tree |
| Not permitted | Artificial grass, and loose gravel or crushed brick larger than 5 mm |
| Street trees | Hardstand 1.5 m clear of the tree face under AS 4970-2009; damaging a Town tree is an offence |
Sources: Town of Cambridge, Standard Vehicle Crossover Policy 5.2.7; Vehicle Crossover Specification; Street Verge Landscape and Maintenance Guidelines (version 3); Policy 098 Trees, Management of Street Trees.
Cambridge's first residential streets
West Leederville was the earliest residential subdivision in what is now the Town of Cambridge, opened from 1891, and most of its houses were built before 1925. Many of those originals have been renovated and now stand beside newer double storey homes, which shapes the paving these homes need. A renovated character house typically wants a driveway that fits the frontage and the Town's 4.5 m kerb limit, a front path in clay brick and a rear courtyard off the new kitchen. Where old brick has cracked or crumbled, replacement with a matching clay paver is usually better than a patch, and where street or garden trees have pushed paving up, our tree root repair approach applies.
Leederville, Wembley and the suburbs around
Leederville lies just east over the freeway and Wembley to the west, with Mount Hawthorn and Glendalough to the north and Subiaco to the south. They are covered on the same by arrangement basis; the full list is on areas we service.
