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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 7:00 pm
by Tony McC
They'd be unlikely to insist on wholesale removal. They'd be concerned that you would challenge such an order and then they'd end up looking like little hitlers in the local paper.
Most planning depts want an easy life. For them, you applying for retrospective PP means they'd get 150 quid for doing nowt. If they have a strict policy of rejecting retrospective PP applications, then you face installing a soakaway, which is the point you're facing now. That, as I've said, is not just a bit of tinkering buit quite a bit of work, although it would not be as bad as removing the whole driveway.
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:15 pm
by Suggers
haggistini wrote:Suggers can you ask your misses if she can photocopy the information at her work so we too can all be conversant with the legislation and ask them to leave a few copy’s lying around at builder’s yards and paving suppliers
Got her straight on the case Haggis...ha ha - she's as hacked off with this half-arsed directive as you guys - but she's really agin this wholesale paving of every front garden.
My grief with her is (she's actually conservation planning) - is that her decisions are SUBJECTIVE? - what gives her & her gang the right to decide?
She's asked me to send this to you with lurve....
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 6:28 am
by Suggers
pavingpipe - totally agree with TMcC - their work load is so huge - personally I'd do nothing - wait a fortnight, and then do nothing again. (My father's advice)
Sorry to be so negative - but the London town consensus is very anti, what you and your neighbour have done. The only time the planners get to hear of the front garden thing is when they have drop kerb app (or when a neighbour dobs them in) (They've gotta lot on their plate) Sit tight mate, and forget your dropped kerb (for the moment)
Chuck a bit of 4x2 against the kerb for the mo.
Loadsa stuff on here about dropped kerbs.
Best.
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 2:08 pm
by lutonlagerlout
suggers said "Chuck a bit of 4x2 against the kerb for the mo"
why not get a 14 lb hammer and just smash all the edges of the kerbs ,then smear a load of neat cement up it
a common sight in the bad lands of luton
whoops for a minute i thought i was pavingbodge.com
LLL :laugh:
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 2:22 am
by haggistini
Typical the only documentation the councils have are full of pictures must help them understand thing's better :;): :;):
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 1:28 pm
by Suggers
lutonlagerlout wrote:whoops for a minute i thought i was pavingbodge.com
Oooooops 
Typical the only documentation the councils have are full of pictures must help them understand thing's better
Excellent - passed on :laugh:
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:14 am
by pavingpipe
Have been looking at the advice on the post....
perhaps the best option is to install aco drainage and then drain to a rain garden (probably a large gravel pit)....
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:02 am
by pavingpipe
one more update
just spoke to the local council
apparently, the 50% (or 30% in small frontages) is non negotiable, irrespective of whether there was a hard surface previously.
the policy was being introduced locally to try to improve visually the look of the area and just by chance it coincided with the change nationally in the law on driveways....
not sure what to do now.....as I need the dropped kerb but cannot provide the 50% as this would reduce the parking space
any ideas?
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:04 pm
by Dave_L
Go along with what they want to see etc in the construction phase, get the job signed off then reinstate to how you want it to look/function.