A new golden oak composite deck running alongside an old red-brick wall, with raised beds of lavender built from the same boards
Letcombe Bassett Millboard composite deck, Golden Oak

Landscaping in Wantage, Oxfordshire

Tired gardens,
made new.

Patios, lawns, walls, fencing and decking for homes in Wantage and the villages around it. Justin New and his team take out what isn’t working and build what will.

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All 28 reviews on Facebook recommend Renew

Where most jobs start

Most gardens we’re called to already exist. They just don’t work.

A slope you can’t use. A patio that’s been down for years. An allotment that’s become too much. So most of our jobs begin the same way, with a word that starts with RE.

  1. A garden in Grove dug down to bare soil, with a mini digger at the back

    removed

    around 50 tonnes of soil to give a sloping garden a level lawn

    Grove

  2. A new sandstone patio behind a low brick retaining wall and step, with fresh turf in front

    reconfigured

    the gate and fence, took out the slope and relocated the shed and its base

    Wantage

  3. An old sandstone patio, cleaned and repointed, curving round a stone-edged bed

    repointed

    a patio that had been down for many years, in Flowpoint limestone

    East Hendred

  4. A striped new lawn beside an old stone wall, where an allotment used to be

    replaced

    an allotment that had become too much to keep on top of, with a lawn

    Denchworth

  5. New curved brick walls and stone steps mid-build, a mini digger and the greenhouse behind

    relocated

    the greenhouse, once the old stone wall and shrubs were out

    East Hanney

Then it’s new.

One garden, before and after

East Hanney

More usable space, all the way through.

“We have removed existing stone wall and shrubs. Supplied and installed brick walling including natural stone steps, yew tree hedging, turf lawn, pedestrian gate and relocated greenhouse.”

Renew, on Facebook, December 2024
  • Brick walling
  • Natural stone steps
  • Yew hedging
  • Turf lawn
  • Pedestrian gate
  • Greenhouse moved
The same garden before: overgrown beds, tall grasses and netting
Before
Curved red-brick walls either side of stone steps, leading up to a newly turfed lawn with a yew hedge and the greenhouse
After: brick walls curve round the new stone steps

Recent gardens

All within five miles of Wantage.

Every garden on this page is in Wantage or a village close by. Pick a name to jump to the job.

3 miles 5 miles Wantage Charlton Grove East Hanney West Hanney Denchworth Stanford in the Vale East Challow Letcombe Bassett East Hendred

Distances measured from the centre of Wantage. Stanford in the Vale, the furthest, is five miles.

A period house’s front garden: striped new lawn, clipped box balls in beds of black slate and a dark paved path with rope-top edging

Wantage

A period house’s front garden

New paving, lawn edging, walling, turf, fencing, gates, gravel and planters. That’s our van, top left.

Pale cream porcelain paving with L-shaped beds of dark soil edged in timber and gravel, stepping stones between them

Stanford in the Vale

Designed by the client, built by Renew

Nemur Cream porcelain with a buff rope edging, 20 mm old English gravel and a concrete shed base, left ready for the client to plant up.

A young espalier tree trained against an old brick wall, above a raised bed built from golden oak deck boards

Letcombe Bassett

Composite decking

Millboard Enhanced Grain in Golden Oak, with raised beds built from the same boards along the old wall.

A round patio of red and blue-grey clay bricks laid in rings, with a table and chairs on it, set into the lawn Close-up of the clay bricks laid in curved rings

Charlton

Where the trampoline used to be

A heritage clay brick circular patio for the seating area the garden needed, with hazel hurdles along the hedge line to suit the house.

Dark slate-grey porcelain patio with a table and four chairs, between new brick walls and a striped lawn

Grove

Fifty tonnes lighter

Around 50 tonnes of soil out to make a level lawn, then a porcelain slate patio and black ice gravel.

A timber pergola over a sandy-coloured stone patio, with a stepping-stone path across a freshly striped lawn
The same garden before: a parched, patchy lawn and bare fences
Before

Wantage

Finished October 2026

AWBS Desert Sand paving, a timber pergola, metal lawn edging, blended soil and a turf lawn. Designed by the client.

Patio restoration

Not every patio needs replacing.

Some just need bringing back. Old joints raked out, drainage sorted, the stone pressure-washed and every joint refilled. Renewal, in the plainest sense of the word.

A large sandstone patio with its old mortar joints raked out, debris across the surface
West Hanney, joints raked out
The same patio afterwards, clean and warm-coloured with crisp pale joints, beside a weatherboarded house
West Hanney, cleaned and repointed

“All existing mortar joints removed, drainage channel cut in around house and shingle installed. Entire patio and paths pressure washed and all joints Flowpointed in limestone.”

Renew, on Facebook

“Patio has been down for many years. Pointing had failed as well as black spot and lichen ingrained into the surface. Now fully cleaned and repointed with Flowpoint limestone.”

East Hendred
Halfway through: one side of the patio already cleaned, the other covered in jointing compound being brushed in
Halfway: new joints going in
The patio outside the French doors, cleaned back to warm sandstone colours
Finished

What we do

Some clients arrive with a drawing. Others with a slope and a question.

We build either. These are the materials and jobs that come up again and again in our own posts.

Ask about your garden
Patios and paving
Indian sandstone in Buff blend and Raj Green. Porcelain in Kandla Grey, Nemur Cream and Modena Sand. Heritage clay brick.
Lawns and levels
Taking out slopes and surplus soil, premium topsoil, turf laid level.
Walls, steps and beds
Brick walling and retaining walls, natural stone steps, sleeper and vertical sleeper beds.
Fencing and gates
Close board fencing, side and pedestrian gates, hazel hurdles.
Decking
Composite decking, including Millboard Enhanced Grain and stone grey boards.
Driveways and paths
Block paving such as Brett Silver Haze with charcoal borders, sandstone paths, gravel and shingle.
Planting
Yew hedging, pleached trees, pencil cypress, beds prepared and ready to plant.
Patio restoration
Joints raked out, pressure washing, repointing in Flowpoint, drainage channels.
Groundwork
Clearance, drainage, foundations and shed bases.

Reviews

Even the neighbour wrote in.

28 reviews on Facebook, and every one recommends Renew.

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“Justin and his team have spent the last two weeks landscaping my neighbour’s garden, and they have been absolutely fantastic from start to finish. They are a really professional team, taking great care to clear everything away at the end of each day and leaving our shared driveway spotless.”

Paul F. lives next door to the job · Facebook, October 2026

“Justin listened to what we wanted and adapted if requested, and always with a smile on his face. He had ideas when I was lost for them, and was conscious of our budget throughout.”

Heather C. · front and back lawns · December 2017

“Nothing was too much trouble and even when we changed the plans he listened to what we wanted.”

Hayley W. · front and back gardens · February 2018
Renew’s dark van with RENEW LANDSCAPING across the bonnet, a peacock perched on the wall beside it
Renew’s dark site board with phone numbers, fixed to the railings of a period house in Wantage

About Renew

Renew is Justin New’s company.

Justin set up Renew Landscaping Ltd in 2017. The team works out of Wantage, and most of our work is a short drive away: Grove, East and West Hanney, Denchworth, Letcombe Bassett, Stanford in the Vale, East Hendred.

If you’ve seen a dark van with a green RE on the bonnet, or our board on someone’s railings, that was us.

“Landscaping has two aspects. Firstly how it initially looks and secondly how it weathers with time.”

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