Driveway spec.

[Tipper]

I want to construct a new driveway and parking/turning area in my garden. This will be followed later with a new garage and workshop adjacent to it.

Can anyone advise what sort of spec I need to create the driveway and parking area? I'm thinking not hard surfaced in the first instance just compacted fill, but hard surfacing later as cash permits.

Thanks

 

[jeds]

Depends on drainage? It either needs to be permeable or include drains running to a soak away. I think you need to decide which before you work out a spec. What's the area? Anything over 5m² needs planning permission.

 

[Tipper]

Thanks for that. I didn't know about the 5m2 requirement. How does that figure with PD? Is it only for front gardens in suburbia?

It's a long, c.50m drive to go into a half acre garden out in the sticks. The adjacent new garage will be for 3/4 cars and a log store and garden store. Not sure I need PP for that as it should be OK within PD. Strange I can build a building but not a drive/pathway! Do people get PP for hard landscaping?

If I go for hard surfacing then it will have soakaways. I'll have another think. I was hoping to first build with compacted limestone or similar then tarmac later if the surface didn't stand up to manouvreing cars, etc.

Edit: just googled driveway planning permission and the 5m2 req seems to only be for paving front gardens, which mine is not so I don't think it applies.