Recent content by Cazzie

Cheers Woody - not what I wanted to hear but good to know! I did pop into the planning office last week and spoke with duty planning officer and tried to show them what I was thinking of doing - I said it was thinking to make it permeable and so didn't think it would need planning and he seemed...

Cheers Woody. Would you say that was true of any material then - such as bits of brick and concrete - as long as above a certain size? Or do you just mean all MOT grade 1-3 aggregates are all permeable to a greater or lesser extent? Any idea what size minimum? The parking would be level with...

Cheers Notch7- but its a tiny space - the yard is all I have at the front and is basically all going to be made into the parking space I want - so no room for a soakaway into a bed or something. The only thing I can do in the space is run off to a drainpipe for rainwater but don't think that...

I want to build a tiny raised parking space where I currently have a yard. It will be approx 5x2m and some builder friends of mine have offered to do the work. To avoid having to go to planning I would like to make it permeable. Apparently this means the cheapest option is MOT type 3 hardcore -...