Not sure where to ask this so put it here so forgive me if it's in the wrong place.
We have a driveway that is concrete and has sunk in places over the years what with tipper trucks and skip lorries when we had the extension built a few years ago.
I am now in the fortunate place to be able to afford to have the drive re laid now I have retired early and taken a lump sum.
My question is about planning permission and I have trawled the internet for 2 days nows and can't find an answer and as you chaps are the fountain of all knowledge I ended up here.
The drive is concrete, as I said earlier, but is need of replacement but do I need permission to replace it with a hard surface such as flag stones as it's already impermeable?.
What the builder said he has done before is lay flags and resined gravel in between, then I thought I could continue the gravel across the small patch of grass but leave it loose (permeable) with two runways for a third car diagonally across it.
Is this possible or do I still need planning permission for the concreted section that has been there for about 18 years now?.
any replacement/extension of a drive is subject to the new legislation (which most people are ignoring), depending on your ground conditions a run of linear drainage across the drive/road border connected to soakaway is not that difficult/costly. this then frees you up to chose any paving type you heart desires, full resin bound gravel, flags and gravel, green tarmac or blocks.
you may want to look in to reusing the old concrete drive with a crusher to create a suitable subase?
