Convert allocated parking space to a garden

Stargazer3

Hi
I bought a house recently and it has a fairly small backgback  The house has 2 allocated parking spaces, one at the front and one at the back and I own the deed and land to both of them. The back parking space is adjacent to the back garden. 
I am thinking of ideally converting the back parking space into a garden and joining it with my current back garden. 
Is that something that can be done or is allocated parking space not convertible?

Stargazer3

Sorry typo in there. Backgback -> back garden

HampshireH

This post probably adds no value but it has some questions.

Is it inside your back garden or outside the boundary?

Is it allocated in a row with others in the traditional sense?

Few things to consider.

This will surely devalue yoir properry as parking is a key feature. Where will your visitors park?

Unless you live in a rural area with ample parking (sounds unlikely if you have allocated parking) it doesnt sound very sensible

Browntoa

It may also be a condition of the original planning permission

RelievedSheff

You will need to check the planning permissions but also the covenants to the house. It is highly likely that the parking has to remain as parking.

ProDave

If you just mean move the fence so the parking space is enclosed as garden, and you keep the tarmac surface so it could be put back to being a parking space then I might do it.

If you intend to dig up the tarmac and replace with soil I would say don't.

MoneySeeker1

Personally - I'd just go ahead and do it, as surely it's a case of "Your land your say". 

If you go ahead with the "better ask other peoples permission to use my own land" tack and other people can (and decide to) deny that permission - your worst case analysis would be to just cover the land with pea gravel or woodchip and put loads of raised beds on it with your choice of plants in them.

AdrianC

Replacing the tarmac with a proper garden is going to involve a lot of work to get the subsurface back to something other than compacted stone.

If you're happy with fake grass, just lay it over the tarmac. Or view the tarmac as a patio, and put pots and containers on it...

There's a lot of ways to improve how you use the space without major upheaval that'll negatively affect future saleability.

RelievedSheff

The other question that no one has asked is how will your new fenced off area affect the parking spaces around yours. Will you reduce their visibility for reversing for example?

Davesnave

Unfortunately this is a classic example of a missing photo making all the difference. We also don't know what sort of planting you envisage, so it's all guesswork.

There are many examples on the internet of planted parking spaces; hundreds of them. Whether any would be applicable here is  impossible to say, but the concept is not that radical.

Davesnave

MoneySeeker1 said:

Personally - I'd just go ahead and do it, as surely it's a case of "Your land your say".

If that were true, I'd be quids-in here. While I'm all in favour of being 'creative' with planning restrictions, it's the impact on others which always needs consideration.*

*in this case the planning may have been granted subject to a certain number of parking spaces being available to owners and visitors.