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New Fri 7 Sep 12 06:27 
 Driveway design - L'escargot
If you're thinking of planning a new driveway then you may find some useful tips from this. www.drivewaytips.com/layout.asp
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New Fri 7 Sep 12 09:28 
 Driveway design - zuave
Le Tarmac Noir is the style for me.-)!
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New Fri 7 Sep 12 10:04 
 Driveway design - CGNorwich
The accepted local method is to dump several tons of course gravel onto your front garden ( you may need to trample any remaining plants down first). Let it spill over onto the pavement in a naturalistic way. You might also need to kick down the fence to gain access. No need to remove it entirely though. An old shopping trolley makes a delightful and ornamental addition as does a permanently overflowing wheely bin
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New Fri 7 Sep 12 10:51 
 Driveway design - FocalPoint
There are now restrictions in place as to what type of surface, and of what area, may be laid in a front garden.

Basically - planning permission is now required for any impermeable surface exceeding 5m² in a front garden.

See tinyurl.com/4jjw92
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New Fri 7 Sep 12 12:08 
 Driveway design - Zero

>> Basically - planning permission is now required for any impermeable surface exceeding 5m² in a
>> front garden.
>>
>> See tinyurl.com/4jjw92

Unless of course its an 8 sq m Extension or Conservatory.
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New Fri 7 Sep 12 12:15 
 Driveway design - FocalPoint
No.

There are restrictions as to what you can do in the way of extensions to the front of your house.

One local authority explains it thus:

'An extension cannot be built without planning permission if "the enlarged part of the dwellinghouse would extend beyond a wall which fronts a highway, and forms either the principal elevation or a side elevation of the original dwellinghouse".

The principal elevation is not defined in the regulations, but in most circumstances it means what everyone would think of as the front of the house. So if the front of your house faces the road, you cannot extend the front without planning permission.'

(from tinyurl.com/cuadxae)
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New Fri 7 Sep 12 12:25 
 Driveway design - devonite
Haven`t the Government just relaxed Planning Permission Laws to help boost the Economy? - Nows the time to get these things done!
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New Fri 7 Sep 12 12:41 
 Driveway design - John H
>> Haven`t the Government just relaxed Planning Permission Laws to help boost the Economy? - Nows
>> the time to get these things done!
>>
No. They have started "talking" about it.

But then who cares about planning laws - these owners don't:
i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/16/article-2049676-0E62FEA900000578-315_964x1124.jpg

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New Fri 7 Sep 12 16:29 
 Driveway design - Boxsterboy
>> But then who cares about planning laws - these owners don't:
>> i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/16/article-2049676-0E62FEA900000578-315_964x1124.jpg
>>


Because they don't need Planning Permission for ancillary sheds in back gardens like that - Permitted Development. If they are less than 4m tall to the ridge (or 3.5m if flat-roofed) and more than 20m from the street - (almost) anything goes.
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New Fri 7 Sep 12 16:43 
 Driveway design - John H

>> Because they don't need Planning Permission for ancillary sheds in back gardens like that -
>> Permitted Development. If they are less than 4m tall to the ridge (or 3.5m if
>> flat-roofed) and more than 20m from the street - (almost) anything goes.
>>

except that they
1. are dwellings, and
2. exceed the limits you refer to.

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New Fri 7 Sep 12 12:36 
 Driveway design - John H
>> Unless of course its an 8 sq m Extension or Conservatory.
>>

Unless of course its an 8 sq m Extension or Conservatory a 3 sq m porch.

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New Fri 7 Sep 12 12:55 
 Driveway design - FocalPoint
"Unless of course its [an 8 sq m Extension or Conservatory] a 3 sq m porch."

Absolutely. The full regulations relating to porches are:

"Adding a porch to any external door of your house is considered to be permitted development, not requiring an application for planning permission, provided:

1. the ground floor area (measured externally) would not exceed three square metres.
2. no part would be more than three metres above ground level (height needs to be measured in the same way as for a house extension).
3. no part of the porch would be within two metres of any boundary of the dwellinghouse and the highway."

(tinyurl.com/7beempp)
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