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It’ll need to be double wythe with some ties between the two faces to give it any sort of strength, even then, your brickie might want to put a pier at each end. That shouldn’t be more than two/three days labour unless he/she has to dig out proper footings.
I’d go for reclaimed brick personally because new brick looks too new for pretty much everything. You’ll need ~120 bricks per sq m of wall so 360 for a 3m x 1m wall (double wythe). Plus a header course across the top, plus at least two courses under the finished ground level.
You should get it done for under £1,500.
The hard standing is the easy bit. You need a solid base of MOT tamped down to 100mm thick and then lay whatever you want on the top onto 4:1 sand cement. Indian stone flags are nice and not expensive.