Making a driveway.....council permission?

arnie&caseysma!

I wonder if anyone could help me here. I live on a main road in town and it has very little on street parking. There are double yellow lines on the road at my side of the street and I have been wondering about making a driveway by knocking down the front wall of my garden and doing the usual work to make it useable etc.
Would I need to get permission to do this work? There are loads of houses in the street and only one has a driveway, all the rest have front walls and some railings (including mine). The houses are not listed so dont think that would be a problem.
Hoping that someone on here can help me - you know what its like, takes a day and an age to get an answer from the LA!
Thanks in advance!:D

CB1979_2

think you do, as you need to get them to drop the kerb.

but not for definate, but assuming so as kerb issues, plus you'll have to drive across the public footpath to get to your house presumably.

clutton_2

talk to your planning department and the highways departments. some local authorities dont like cars reversing into or out of front gardens - depends on local traffic conditions.

Mrs_Arkwright

We had to get planning permission to drop our kerb, we live on a very quiet cul de sac, and the council also made it a condition that we had to use their contractors, at 400 quid dearer than our own builders. Money grabbing scoundrels.

nelly_2

Go and ask the neighbour who has the drive, what they did.

arnie&caseysma!

nelly wrote:

Go and ask the neighbour who has the drive, what they did.

Thanks Nelly, I would but unfortunately the house was sold a couple of years ago. That house is actually two that have been joined and the front garden of one was turned into parking.

Clutton - I don't see how they could refuse me reversing into the garden (out is against advice of highway code no matter if it is a main road or a quiet one) as the road that runs parallel with our, and the one that they both merge with, have numerous driveways.

All I can do really is price the job and if I want to go ahead with it ask the council - I'm not going to bother wasting time phoning them in the first place, to have to write to them and then wait 3 months on the reply (the are incredibly slow up here!). The main factor would be the cost no matter what the council say!

skint-78

Due to having to drop kerbs and access a drive over a pavement, it is necessary to get planning permission, which I am told is almost always approved- it seems that they just like you asking their permission!