Louvred pergolas
A covered outdoor room that opens to the sun and closes against the rain, supplied and fitted on a base built to take it.
A louvred aluminium pergola starts from £4,500 supplied and fitted, for a 3m × 4m frame on a suitable existing base. Bigger sizes, motorised louvres, side screens, glass walls and any new base are priced after the free design visit. In a rear garden a freestanding pergola is normally permitted development.
- Supplied and fitted
- From £4,500 (3m × 4m)
- Sizes
- 3m × 3m up to 8m × 3m
- Planning
- Usually permitted development
- Guarantee
- 5 years, in writing
Our 2026 guide prices. Your fixed price comes in writing after the free design visit.
What it is
A louvred pergola is a freestanding powder-coated aluminium frame with a roof of adjustable louvres. Open them for sun and air; close them and the roof sheds rain into gutters inside the frame and down through the posts. Lighting is built in, and the sides can be left open or closed in with screens, glass or blinds.
Warm-white LED lighting runs round the frame as standard, the louvres can be manual or motorised, and it comes in black, anthracite, latte and light stone. Sizes run from 3m × 3m up to 8m × 3m.
Make it the room you want
Leave all four sides open, or add what the spot needs: fixed or adjustable privacy louvres against a neighbour’s window, drop-down blinds for low sun, frameless glass walls and sliding doors to make an outdoor room, or a hanging fire bowl for colder evenings.
Glass walls, doors and blinds need a level surface underneath, which is one more reason the base matters.
Built on a base that can take it
Most pergola problems start underneath. A frame bolted to block paving, gravel, decking, tarmac or a thin slab can shift, and once it is out of square the louvres bind and the gutters stop draining.
Because we build patios and bases for a living, we check what yours is sitting on at the free design visit. If it is up to it, we fix to it. If not, we put concrete pads under each post or build a new patio on a proper sub-base, and take the roof water to a drain, soakaway or border rather than across the paving. On Milton Keynes clay that matters more than anywhere.
What you get
- Powder-coated aluminium frame that will not rot, warp or need painting
- Louvred roof that opens for air and light and closes against rain, draining down through the posts
- Warm-white LED lighting in the frame, with motorised louvres as an option
- Privacy louvres, glass walls and sliding doors, blinds and screens added to suit
How we fit it
- Free design visit: base, levels, boundaries and planning position checked
- Existing patio checked; concrete pads or a new patio where it is not up to it
- Frame set out square and level, posts fixed with stainless anchors
- Roof water taken to a drain, soakaway or border, not across the patio
- Low-voltage power put in and certified by a registered electrician where needed
- Five year written guarantee on the base and installation, transferable if you sell; the frame carries the manufacturer’s guarantee
Do you need planning permission?
A freestanding pergola in a rear garden is normally permitted development if it stays behind the front of the house, is no more than 2.5m high at the eaves and 2.5m overall within 2m of a boundary, does not sit on a platform more than 30cm high, and together with any sheds or other outbuildings covers no more than half the garden. A listed house needs planning permission for one.
In a conservation area it also cannot go between the side of the house and the boundary. We check the height of the model you choose against these limits, and the rest, at the free design visit. Planning Portal: outbuildings
The kind of finish we build
“Connor and the team recently completed our resin driveway in Bletchley. From going through the design with us and even making pictures so we could see how it looked, to the install and the aftercare, it has all been perfect. Thanks again.”
Resin driveway — Bletchley
“Milton Keynes Driveways & Landscaping have just finished our full garden makeover in Milton Keynes. We had a porcelain patio, composite decking and raised sleeper beds. They arrived on time, kept my home clean and the garden looks terrific. They are coming back to do our block paved driveway soon.”
Full garden makeover — Milton Keynes
Things people ask us
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Louvred pergolas near you
Local advice on ground, planning and prices for each town we cover.
- Louvred pergolas in Milton Keynes
- Louvred pergolas in Bletchley
- Louvred pergolas in Wolverton
- Louvred pergolas in Stony Stratford
- Louvred pergolas in Newport Pagnell
- Louvred pergolas in Woburn Sands
- Louvred pergolas in Bow Brickhill
- Louvred pergolas in Aspley Guise
- Louvred pergolas in Cranfield
- Louvred pergolas in Woburn
- Louvred pergolas in Hanslope
- Louvred pergolas in Olney
- Louvred pergolas in Leighton Buzzard
- Louvred pergolas in Winslow
- Louvred pergolas in Towcester
- Louvred pergolas in Ampthill
What louvred pergolas cost
Our louvred pergolas cost guide breaks the price down: what is included, what changes it and what to check in any quote.
Free design, free visit, free samples
We measure up, talk it through and send a written proposal with the build-up, the programme and one whole price. No pressure and no follow-up sales calls.