About CM Access Solutions
About CM Access Solutions, a Family Business in London
A family business, trading since 2022. We design and install automated gates across London and the surrounding areas, and we do the civils and the surfacing that go with them.
Why the groundworks matter as much as the gate
Most access installations are split between two or three different firms. Somebody digs, somebody else fits, and a third turns up weeks later to put the surface back. Every gap between them is a place where responsibility goes missing, and it is almost always the part underground that gets rushed.
Being part of the CM Group means we do not have those gaps. The team pouring the base is the team that has to commission the system standing on it, so nobody underground is cutting a corner another firm has to live with.
We work for homeowners, businesses, industrial sites and the public sector, from a single pedestrian gate through to a controlled entrance for a whole development.
CM Access Solutions Ltd is a family business and has been trading since 2022.
What we do
Our Services, Usually Two or Three at Once
Very few jobs are only one of these. A bollard installation is a dig, a drain, an electrical run, a commissioning visit and a reinstatement, and all five are ours.
- Automated gates. Swing, sliding and cantilever gates automated and commissioned to current safety standards, for driveways, yards and secure sites across London and the counties around it.
- Rising bollards. Vehicle control that lies flush with the ground until it is needed, installed with the groundworks and drainage a bollard depends on.
- Vehicle barriers. Arm barriers for car parks, depots and industrial entrances, specified for the number of vehicles that really use the entrance.
- Utilities and groundworks. Excavation, drainage, service trenches and ducting, dug by our own team and put back so the ground above stays sound long after we have gone.
- Excavation and digger work. Machine work as a service in its own right, from a site strip or a trench to breaking out concrete, with the operator included.
- GPR surveys. Ground penetrating radar surveys that show what is buried under a site before a machine goes anywhere near it, across London and the counties around it.
- Leak detection. Finding a water leak without opening up the whole site, then repairing it and putting the surface back the way it was.
- Tarmac and resin surfacing. Tarmac and resin bound surfacing for driveways, car parks, yards and footways, laid on a base we dig and build ourselves.
- Pathways, driveways and slabs. Driveways, paths, block paving and concrete bases, laid by the same team that digs the ground out and builds what sits underneath.
- Landscaping and external works. The finishing work around a building or a garden, from levels and retaining structures to turf, planting, fencing and the drainage that has to work underneath it all.
- Skilled labour supply. Groundworks trades, operatives and machine drivers supplied to contractors and site managers who are short of people, across London and the counties around it.
How we work
The Same Five Stages on Every Job
You get one point of contact from the first site visit to the handover, and a written programme before anybody starts.
Book a site visit- Stage one
Site visit and survey
We come out and look at the ground, the power, the drainage, the traffic and the risk, and take measurements on site instead of guessing from a photograph.
- Stage two
Design and written quote
A drawing and an itemised quotation naming the exact equipment, so you can compare it like for like with anyone else you have asked.
- Stage three
Civils and groundworks
Excavation, drainage, ducting and foundations, carried out by our own team to the programme we agreed.
- Stage four
Installation and commissioning
Fit, wire, set the force limits, prove the safety devices and test the whole system before anybody signs it off.
- Stage five
Handover and aftercare
The paperwork, and a walkthrough for whoever uses it every day.
Where we work
Areas We Cover in London and the Home Counties
Most of our work sits inside the M25. We travel out across the Home Counties for larger installations. If you are further afield, ring us anyway.
- London
- Kent
- Surrey
- Essex
- Hertfordshire
- Berkshire
Tell us about the site and we will tell you what it needs
Send a photograph and a postcode and we will come back to you with what the site needs.