Block paving driveways in Buckingham.

Buckingham roughly doubled in size after 1970, and the estates built then, Page Hill, Badgers, Bourton and Linden Village among them, now have drives that are forty or more years old. Cracked concrete and early block that has sunk at the edges are both replaced with a new block drive on a proper base.

Lace Hill, to the south, is 2010s housing with short block drives that can be lengthened in a matching block. In the Georgian and Victorian centre around Market Hill, West Street and Castle Street most houses have almost no front, but where there is space, brindle block suits the brick.

The council consulted in 2025 on stretching the conservation area along Moreton Road, Stowe Avenue, Mitre Street and Station Road, so on those streets it is worth checking before the front changes.

In the centre the streets are narrow, so the skip sits on the plot or on a permit; out on the estates the van and skip fit on the drive.