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PROJECT

PAVING NETWORK

AT ERINVALE ESTATE

The Erinvale Estate Hotel and Spa in Somerset West, Cape Town, has undergone
an extensive landscaping makeover. In addition to re-planting large tracts of the

estate’s gardens, a major component of the project entailed replacing the existing
clay brick paving with cast-stone cobbles, manufactured by Concrete Manufacturing
Association member, Revelstone.

urrounded by the majestic Hottentots paving contractors, Progressive Paving, was which are interspersed among the estate’s
Holland Mountains, the Erinvale appointed by Dawson to do the paving extensive indigenous gardens and Cape
SHotel and Spa is close to some of the installation which entailed repaving old Dutch architecture,” he explained.
Cape’s top wine farms and includes three paths and adding some new ones. Approximately 3 500m² of Revelstone’s
restaurants, two swimming pools, a spa and MD of Progressive Paving, Adrien 50mm Kent Cobble paver and its Jura Cobble
access to the adjacent Gary Player-designed Desmarais, said the project was far from edging paver was specified for the paving.
Erinvale golf course. simple and the design and actual laying “After a three-week period of steady rain
The landscaping and paving layout was required careful planning and detailing. and muddy conditions, the project was
curated and designed by Alan Dawson “The paving forms a web of interlinked completed in November 2020. Once the
Gardens. One of the Western Cape’s leading paths, tree circles and fountain circles old brick paving layer had been removed,

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