house builder wants me to remove my driveway

getmore4less

They changed the house on plot 222 shown in some of the drawings.

That was a 2015 planning application 15/00415

the_shreksta

Aylesbury_Duck wrote: »

What a shame that four properties so far have ripped up what were quite attractive front lawns and paths and replaced them with an unsightly mass of gravel. It looks terrible. As well as perhaps being unpopular with neighbours if you delay the adoption of the road, I suspect some aren't happy that the reality of their street looks nothing like the relatively green frontages in the brochures and showhomes.

In reality, it's inevitable that most will go the same route and what was once quite an attractive street will look like a badly organised car dealership in a builder's yard.

Nobody is selling cars down here or selling bricks/sand/cement.....................

What a strange view you have on things

EachPenny

getmore4less wrote: »

here is the parking provisions for the site(2013).

According to that a restrictive standard of no more than 1.5 spaces per dwelling on average was applied as part of a condition on the outline application. This includes designated on-street bays.

Unless there was a change of policy it would be difficult to believe that PD rights to create additional parking spaces were not removed. Otherwise what was the point in setting that restrictive standard?

EachPenny

the_shreksta wrote: »

Nobody is selling cars down here or selling bricks/sand/cement.....................

What a strange view you have on things

If you were a planning officer you wouldn't find it strange at all. Most of them regard cars as a visual intrusion on the streetscape and many would favour an outright ban on front-garden parking in residential areas.


Hard landscaped gardens are also the planning officers equivalent of stone cladding.

lincroft1710

the_shreksta wrote: »

Nobody is selling cars down here or selling bricks/sand/cement.....................

AD never said they were, In AD's view that is what the street looks or will look like if everyone converts their front garden into additional car parking

NaughtiusMaximus

EachPenny wrote: »

If you were a planning officer you wouldn't find it strange at all. Most of them regard cars as a visual intrusion on the streetscape and many would favour an outright ban on front-garden parking in residential areas.

As opposed to the aesthetically pleasing view of the road being crammed with parked cars along every available bit of kerb?

Aylesbury_Duck

NaughtiusMaximus wrote: »

As opposed to the aesthetically pleasing view of the road being crammed with parked cars along every available bit of kerb?

Yes. That's much tidier than cars crammed in at all angles on DIY "driveways".

NaughtiusMaximus

Aylesbury_Duck wrote: »

Yes. That's much tidier than cars crammed in at all angles on DIY "driveways".

Each to their own, but I think aesthetically they're as bad as each other. At least when the cars are on the drive it's less of a PITA for anyone driving along the street.

stator

EachPenny wrote: »

According to that a restrictive standard of no more than 1.5 spaces per dwelling on average was applied as part of a condition on the outline application. This includes designated on-street bays.

Unless there was a change of policy it would be difficult to believe that PD rights to create additional parking spaces were not removed. Otherwise what was the point in setting that restrictive standard?

Just because the builder had to comply with certain planning matters to get their designs approved doesn't necessarily mean the permitted development has been removed from a property.



OP needs to query the building company about what their legal justification is going to be if they wish to take action against him.

Typhoon2000

From what the OP has said there is appears to be no legal justification to take action against him. The Builder messed up by not ensuring there was a covenant to ensure front gardens could not be changed ( at least until they finished building and washed their hands of the development).

If the changes he has mage to his front garden comply with permitted development, there is no action the council can take against him either.

To move forward the the OP has to make changes to allow the the road to be adopted. I would look to ask the builder to help with the cost invlolved.