Specialist Groundworks in St Just in Penwith
Few places in Cornwall carry as much history underfoot as St Just. Old shafts, adits and spoil lie beneath fields and gardens from Botallack to Pendeen, so we deliver farm and domestic groundworks here with the ground's past researched before the first bucket goes in.
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St Just sits at the centre of the St Just Mining District, Area A1 of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site. Around the town, the coast from Cape Cornwall through Botallack and Levant to Geevor at Pendeen was worked for tin and copper for centuries, and much of that working ran inland beneath today's farms, lanes and back gardens.
That legacy shapes groundworks here more than anywhere else we cover. A mining search is a sensible first step before building, old spoil can hide in the made ground of a garden, and an unrecorded shaft or adit is always a possibility. We dig carefully, stop and investigate anything unexpected, and design footings and slabs to the ground the investigation confirms. Our team is confined space trained, which matters on sites like these.
In the town itself, granite cottages gather round Bank Square and the Plain-an-Gwarry, with the Kenidjack valley and the hamlets of Tregeseal and Kelynack close by.
From Hayle we take the A30 to Penzance, then the A3071 west across the moorland into St Just. The B3306 links the town north to Pendeen and Trewellard.
Our Groundworks and Farm Services in St Just
Groundworks and Drainage
Investigated ground first. Mining country makes groundworks and precise setting out the foundation of every job. Concrete works follow for bases on proven ground, drainage handles spring water off the granite, and tree removal and land clearance reopens plots lost to gorse and scrub.
Agricultural and Equestrian Groundworks
Holdings on the coastal shelf. The small farms between the moor and the cliffs call for farm track construction, agricultural buildings and agricultural groundworks, alongside silage clamps and slurry stores, farm concrete yards and horse arena construction.
Driveways and Landscaping
Granite homes and gardens. Cottage frontages are rebuilt as driveways in tarmac, resin or concrete. Gardens on a slope take retaining walls, while patios, hard landscaping and fencing are chosen to stand up to Atlantic gales.
Plant Hire
Machines for the far west. Plant hire is available operated or self-drive and delivered to site. Mini digger hire suits cottage gardens and lanes, and chipper hire clears overgrown hedges and valley woodland.
Farm and Equestrian Groundworks Around St Just and Pendeen
Between Kelynack, Truthwall and Pendeen, small granite-hedged fields run right to the cliff edge, and some of that farmland lies over old workings.
Agricultural groundworks
the farm hub, with every base and drain planned around what lies below.
Agricultural buildings
steel frames erected on pads sited clear of known shafts, with prior approval checked.
Farm track construction
tracks laid over firm ground, routed round old mine waste.
Farm concrete yards
yards and hardstanding for exposed holdings.
Silage clamps and slurry stores
meeting SSAFO and BS 5502, sited on investigated ground.
Horse arena construction
ménages built level on the coastal plateau, with drainage beneath.
Why St Just Chooses Luna Maintenance
Careful in mining countryWe research and investigate before we dig, and our team is confined space trained for the sites that need it.
Recognised accreditationCHAS accredited (SSIP) and a Constructionline Gold member.
Ross and a team of fiveTwenty-nine years in the trade sit behind every St Just job Ross Kitto takes on.
Seven days, 7am to 7pmLong working days make the most of the weather at this end of the peninsula.
A full fleet without hiring inThe 14-tonne excavator, wheeled digger, minis, dumper and tractor with dump trailer are all ours, so the right machine is on a job at the western edge of Cornwall from the first day.
Groundworks and Farm Projects by Our Team
Our photographs show the range: horse school builds with timber arena fencing, steel-frame building erection, concrete pads, a farm track, storm-damage clearance and garden redesigns. Every image is from one of our own jobs. Explore them on our work page.
Our Customers' Verdict
Groundworks are often booked on a friend's recommendation, and these reviews show why:
"Luna maintenance ltd carried out some groundworks at my property after I received a recommendation from a friend. I was very happy with the work carried and I would certainly use him again. He is a consummate professional at what he does."
"They did the project promptly and charged exactly what they quoted, even doing a few extra bits for me whilst they were on site."
"Their time management, cost structure and quality of work has been excellent and I would be delighted to recommend them."
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Start Your St Just Project With a Free Site Visit
Tell us where the site is and what you plan to build. We will look at the ground, explain what its mining history means and send a written quote, free of charge.
Call Ross on 07460 077745·Book a free site visit online
Based in Hayle, working across West Cornwall
Phone: 07460 077745
Email: office@lunamaintenanceltd.com
Hours: 7am to 7pm, 7 days a week
Last updated: 20 October 2026