Suggestions for 5ft high by 13ft rubble pile!

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Just moved into a house which has a fantastic garden - or at least, will have the most incredible garden at some point- but at the moment it's a bit of a mess.

I've had waste removal people and gardeners come over to take a look, but all is eerily quiet on the getting back to me front with a quote or willingness to remove all rubble/ waste from the garden- probably because access is a pita - it's through an archway that is only 2m high, so can't get a skip in or tall machinery. I also think it will be eye wateringly expensive.

Anyway, today, a friend suggested just keeping the rubble at the bottom rather than taking it away for waste - moving it to the side, or bottom fence line and using it in some other way (base for a garden shed/ studio, a wall or anything, really). However, the amount is significant (5ft high by about 12-15ft)- it was going to be used as the foundations for a house, but planning permission was never granted. I've just fallen down a rabbit's hole of looking at hardcore (though then had to put in rubble as search results were a bit sketchy) gardens but i don't think i really want to leave it in situ to create a garden out of a mound. Also, the pile just reminds me of a freshly dug giants grave at the moment, so definitely want to shift it somewhere rather than leaving it where and as is.

In that space, from the shed down and where the rubble is, I am hoping to plant some more fruit trees and then sow wild flowers (eventually).

Has anyone done something similar on such a scale and if so, what have you used the rubble for? pics attached!

Every Tudor garden would have a “mount” from the top of which you could view the rest of the garden.

DH dug a pond in the front garden and heaped the soil up in a mound beside it. I was very unsure, but once planted it’s lovely, and looks totally natural.

We had a pile like that where our septic tank was dug into the chalk, huge lumps of chalk.

We used lots of the stone to build, then covered what was left with soil and planted it up.

It looked just fine.

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Make a feature of it.

I recall a gardening programme on youtube where someone planted grass seeds on a huge rubble pile and then something really quirky like a face?? My memory is atrocious these days but it was so cool

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Skip is the answer along with getting a few helpers if possible, pizza and beer as payment!

We inherited a mound leasing to a pond in a previous garden. When we tried to remove it, there were literally hundreds of frogs in it..

How about making something like The Mud Maid at Heligan.

I bought a house with the same issue on a smaller scale.
Sorting though and stacking the usable materials gave me more than enough to make the various design ideas I had for the place once I knew what materials I had available. It felt good to have repurpoed and incorporated it all. There was still a few tip runs .
Offering hard core on free cycle didn't do much, one couple turned up but when they realised how little they could get in their car without buggering the suspension they gave up.

I would do it myself. Set some time aside. Get a wheelbarrow each and some sturdy gloves and just wheelbarrow it out to the front and throw into a skip.
once it’s all gone level the garden and then you’ll have a blank canvas to do whatever you fancy!
if you don’t want to move it all you could build it into a raised area at the back with a retaining wall - then use that area as a patio / seating area.

Ask on Facebook marketplace if there’s any older teens looking to earn a bit of pocket money, hopefully you’ll get a couple of help you move it