'lawn' advice

[LeslieYep]

Hi, we've just moved to a new house from one with no garden to one with what feels like a field. The grass is mostly not grass. It's wild grasses, weeds, dandelions etc. The ground below is very rocky, so we don't know whether to work with what we have, or come September, just hire a rotivator and turn the whole lot into rocky soil and sow seeds.
What would you suggest? We want grass, but don't know the best approach to take. Thank you.

New estates are often built on farmland and the rough grass will have seeded on the builders soil ( rubble) that’s underneath. If it were me and I wanted a decent lawn for years to come, I’d get a landscape firm in to take all the grot away and put down decent turf on a good bed of topsoil.
They might even be able to do it this season. Won’t be cheap but trying to recover lawn from grot is a difficult and long process.

Thank you BeeBumble. It's not a new house, just new to us!
We were hoping to avoid the full cost if we could do some ourselves, but good to know we're not completely crazy for thinking of ditching what we have and starting again.

My DS has just extended his lawn over what was gravel and poor soil. He took off the gravel and top layer of soil and put loads of compost down, compacted it and laid turf.
It’s taken well and you can’t see the joins. So go for it!