Same berm. Same grass.
Now it can hold a car.

A load-rated grid sits under your existing berm, filled with soil and turfed over. It looks and drains exactly as it does today — it just stops turning to mud.

Free, instant, and no obligation. We only look at the road frontage — no account needed.

No excavation Grass stays grass Fully reversible Howick pilot — limited availability

The problem

Auckland households are parking on the grass because there is nowhere else.

Most Howick homes have a driveway one car deep and a street that fills up by early evening. So the berm — that strip of grass between the footpath and the road — becomes the overflow.

And it works, right up until it rains. Then the grass turns to mud, the ruts set in, the berm stops draining properly, and what was a tidy street frontage starts to look like nobody cares about it.

The street is full

Berm parking becomes the default, not the exception — and it is rarely done tidily.

The grass gives up

Soft ground ruts under a vehicle, then holds water, then stops draining as it should.

Nobody wants to pave it

Concrete or gravel solves the mud and creates a different problem: it no longer looks like a berm.

How it works

Four steps, and the hard part is already done.

You do not need to measure anything, ring the council, or guess at a price.

Enter your address

We pull up satellite imagery of your frontage and find the berm beside your existing driveway.

Get an instant quote

Drag the outline to match your berm and the price updates as you go. Single or double, with or without upgrades.

See exactly what happens

The grid, the soil, the turf, and what it means for your berm. No paving, no surprises.

We install it

One local Howick crew, usually in a single day. Then the grass grows back through and it disappears.

What's under your grass

Two inches of turf. One grid. The same soil underneath.

This is the whole product. There is no slab, no aggregate base course, and nothing dug out — just a shallow-graded strip with a load-rated grid through it.

Illustrative cross-section. Your berm's existing soil and levels stay as they are.

Pricing

Two sizes. One price each. No site visit to find out.

Priced for the Howick pilot, installed, with the grass put back.

Optional upgrades

Add any of these at checkout. Pricing for upgrades is being finalised for the pilot — tell us what you're after and we'll confirm before you pay anything.

Why you can trust it

Built around the rules, not around a workaround.

Here is exactly where we stand, in plain language.

No excavation

Shallow grading only. No deep dig, so drainage, levels and tree roots are left alone.

Grass stays grass

Soil-filled and turfed, so it mows, drains and looks the same as it does now.

Insured local crew

Installed by a vetted Howick contractor. Public liability cover on every job.

Howick pilot

We are installing locally and deliberately slowly, so we are on site for every one of them.

Same grass. Completely different result.

The left berm is ordinary grass. The right one has a grid under it. Same rain, same car, same afternoon.

Ordinary berm Turf over soft soil

Ruts, standing water, and a berm that stops draining

Bermy berm Same turf, grid underneath

Sits level, drains properly, mows the same

Straight answers

The questions everyone asks first.

We won't give you a flat yes, because that call isn't ours to make. The berm is Auckland Council and Auckland Transport road reserve, so AT decides what's allowed on it — not us, and not you.

What we can tell you is that the method is deliberately built to sit in the strongest possible position against those rules: the grid is filled with soil and turfed, so the berm stays grass; it is anchored only to your existing, already-legal vehicle crossing; and there is no excavation and it is fully reversible.

We are putting this exact method in front of Auckland Transport in writing and will publish their response here, whatever it says. Until then, treat our wording as "designed around the rules" — never "council approved".

No. The grid is filled with topsoil and the turf goes back over the top. Once it has grown in, it is grass — same colour, same texture, same mowing height. The only difference is what happens when something heavy drives on it.

We can't answer that on Auckland Transport's behalf. What we can say is that a Corridor Access Request exists for activity that alters the surface of the road reserve, and our method is specifically designed not to: grass in, grass out, no hard surface, no excavation, and no new access point created.

We'll be straight with you about where you stand before you commit. If AT asks us for a formal CAR, we'll tell you — not discover it afterwards.

Trees and poles are the main reason a berm gets declined — roots and underground services don't mix with even a shallow grid. If there's a tree in the strip, we'll usually suggest a shorter section alongside it, or tell you honestly that it isn't a good fit.

No driveway means no Bermy. We only ever reinforce the strip directly beside an existing vehicle crossing. A standalone patch of berm with no driveway attached is exactly the unpredictable mid-berm parking we're trying to avoid.

The grid takes load immediately, but the grass needs time to knit the soil together before it can take a car without scuffing. Plan on about four weeks of keeping vehicles off it while it establishes.

We'll leave you written grow-in care instructions on the day, and check in afterwards. We're confirming the exact period against our chosen grid supplier's specification and will update this number if it changes.

The install is fully reversible — the grid lifts out and the berm goes back to being ordinary grass. Nothing about it is permanent, which is also why it doesn't need to be disclosed as a hard surface or a structural alteration.

Find out what your berm can take.

Pop in your address and we'll show you the strip beside your driveway, priced.

Howick pilot — limited availability Free instant quote No obligation

Same berm. Same grass.Now it can hold a car.