Sarah Bancroft

Sarah leads design and specification at Driveways Glasgow. Every driveway we quote starts with her survey: frontage width, levels, the gate line, where cars actually turn, and how the finished surface will meet the house and the pavement. The specification she writes is the document the installation crew builds to, so the quote you receive and the driveway you get are the same thing.

Her background is in hard landscaping design across Glasgow's very mixed housing stock — Victorian villas in the West End with wide mature frontages, interwar semis in Knightswood and Giffnock with narrow entrances, and post-war estate housing where the frontage barely clears a family car. That range is why she specifies by property rather than by catalogue: block paving in a herringbone bond where turning loads are heaviest, resin-bound where a seamless finish suits a modern frontage, and setts or contrasting borders where a period property needs the detail to sit right.

Sarah writes the material comparison and scope guides on this site. If you are weighing block paving against resin-bound or tarmac, or working out whether the project is really a driveway, a patio or a path, that is her writing — the same advice she gives on site, without the sales pitch.

Experience

• Frontage surveys and itemised written specifications for every quote
• Material selection across block paving, resin-bound, tarmac, gravel and concrete
• Laying patterns, borders, edge restraints and threshold detailing
• Conservation-area and period-property driveway design