Wooden Driveway Gates
in Woking.

Woking is the largest town in west Surrey and a major commuter hub with direct rail to London Waterloo in about twenty-five minutes. The residential character is predominantly modern: significant post-war and recent new-build development around the town centre, with older detached and semi-detached stock in the established outer suburbs towards Horsell, Mayford, and Pyrford. Wooden-gate demand here splits between the period detached properties on those outer streets and the modern new-builds where homeowners are upgrading the builder's standard boundary treatment in the first couple of years after purchase.

Iroko is the dominant timber across both segments of the Woking market. On the new-build sites, the specification is usually a clean contemporary framed-and-braced leaf with a stained finish, scaled to a standard suburban opening width, with automation specified at the outset. On the older Woking properties, the brief is more traditional: proportions that match the house, hand-applied oil finish, and a more substantial leaf profile. The Metropolitan Green Belt surrounds the town and the borough has a mature conservation-area framework; neither typically constrains a replacement residential gate, but the installer confirms the position on each site before quoting.