Extending house onto driveway

gazfocus

This is a long way off but just curious...

We have a 7 year old 3-bed semi detached house in a fairly quiet cul-de-sac. We have a driveway the runs the length of the house to the left and the neighbour on that side is approx 10 metres away (although our boundary finishes at the edge of the driveway).

At some point in the future, we would like to extend the house and with the garden being relatively small, we thought about extending on to the driveway.

Are there any general rules to consider when extending onto a driveway (i.e. parking for x amount of cars)?

Jnelhams

Generally you are not allowed to build beyond the front of the house.

Give your council's planning team a call, they will give you some pointers.

gazfocus

Jnelhams wrote: »

Generally you are not allowed to build beyond the front of the house.

Give your council's planning team a call, they will give you some pointers.

I wasn't considering building beyond the front of the house. As I said, the drive runs the full length of the house (i.e. front to back).

System

have a good look through your titles, some newer developments have restricted permitted development rights and sometimes have further restrictions written into the deeds.
If off street parking is in place and was required at the outset (which I imagine it was otherwise a developer wouldn't have spent that money!) then you will have to provide some kind of alternative for the parking spaces you are removing

But as said, speak to your local planning department if you want to get a real idea of what can be done

jellie

Assuming you're not in Scotland, check out the Government's planning portal as well, gives lots of useful information about whether PP is needed, as well as building regs. Obviously these might be out of date when you come to get the work done, but you'll get an idea of the current situation.

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk