Advice on Waterproofing brick veneer

Good morning All,

Three years ago we bought our first house, 1978 ex govvie we have been renovating ourselves little by little.
Most of it has been undoing the previous owner’s messed up handiwork and now we are dealing with some concrete brick spalling due to soil having been in contact with the render for years.
As a result, render has degraded and in doing so it has pulled off some of the underlying brick as well. Nothing major yet but we decided to intervene before it is too late.
Additionally, the level of soil outside the house was way higher than the soil in the crawl space, so underneath the house it has always been humid. No mould as it is ventilated but still.

Now, we dug the soil away from the bricks and down to the foundation line, and I would like some advice re the following strategy:

Remove loose render -> Fix the spalled bricks with cement repair compound, -> apply three coats of bitumen rubber to waterproof -> lay down geotextile, AG pipe with sock to drain water away -> cover with 10mm blue metal gravel -> keep soil away from the bricks forever.

I am not a builder and the above comes from some google research . So please feel free to suggest changes and suggest materials/brands.

Ps we cannot afford professional work to do this so we have to do it ourselves.

Thank you all for your assistance!!
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