At the bottom of my garden, I have a hard standing parking area which is currently the width of one and a 1/4 average cars. It is shielded from the road (a small, quiet cul de sac) by the most overengineered gates I have ever seen, which sag, lock from the inside and look horrendous. As a result, I never use the hard standing and park on the road instead.
I'm playing with fences at the moment (or at least, thinking about...) and I'm planning to open up the rear parking area to the road by removing the gates, and then installing a fence along the side of the parking area, to re-secure the back garden.
If I move the fence up towards the house a bit, this will widen the driveway, and this would be useful. It would also tidy up the fenceline a bit which over the years seems to have small "bits" installed, rather than full width panels.
My question is, what width should I look to achieve to get a double driveway- I know the easiest answer is to go as wide as I want, but is there an industry standard at which point a driveway can be considered to be a double?
Thanks.
CD
I'm playing with fences at the moment (or at least, thinking about...) and I'm planning to open up the rear parking area to the road by removing the gates, and then installing a fence along the side of the parking area, to re-secure the back garden.
If I move the fence up towards the house a bit, this will widen the driveway, and this would be useful. It would also tidy up the fenceline a bit which over the years seems to have small "bits" installed, rather than full width panels.
My question is, what width should I look to achieve to get a double driveway- I know the easiest answer is to go as wide as I want, but is there an industry standard at which point a driveway can be considered to be a double?
Thanks.
CD