Build drive on council owned verge?

35har1old

ftb_deena said:

My new property has a large council owned verge directly outside of it (and along the entire road of houses). Some properties have strip concrete drive from the path, over the verge and to the house.

A previous owner has had planning permission approved for a similar driveway and dropped kerb to be installed. Do I need to purchase the land from the council first, or simply get permission to install a drive and dropped kerb?

I hope this image helps! My house is on the right (where white car is parked), I would like a driveway like the one on left!

IS the grass verge you are talking about the aera beyond the path close to your house?

prettyandfluffy

Planning permission does not look at property ownership or matters like restrictive covenants, etc; it just confirms whether the thing can be built as proposed in accordance with applicable planning legislation.  So you can get permission to build something on property owned by someone else but that does not mean you can build it without having all necessary consents in place which would of course include the consent of the landowner, and the best way to get that is to be the landowner,

housebuyer143

35har1old said:

LightFlare said:

I'm not convinced there is enough space to the side of your house for a car width driveway without encroaching on the next doors land

I don't think the OP was suggesting that he was going to use the side of the house he said he wanted one like his  neighbour which approaches the front door

I don't think that's a drive, but is a large footpath? You can see a smaller footpath in front of the houses 

Section62

housebuyer143 said:

35har1old said:

LightFlare said:

I'm not convinced there is enough space to the side of your house for a car width driveway without encroaching on the next doors land

I don't think the OP was suggesting that he was going to use the side of the house he said he wanted one like his  neighbour which approaches the front door

I don't think that's a drive, but is a large footpath? You can see a smaller footpath in front of the houses 

It could be either, as a driveway it is probably the absolute minimum width and not ideal.  But the fact the part crossing the footway in the foreground is in-situ concrete (rather than slabs as used on the footway) would lead me to accept the possibility it was constructed by the council as a driveway.

Possibly only the minimum width as the council didn't want large areas of the verge paved over, and were mindful of posible harm to the tree.

ftb_deena

Thanks all. Circled is a drive, my neighbour parks on it. Other houses on the street also have one. Ignore blue car I'm not sure what he's doing! And this was taken from street view way before I lived at the property. 

Anyway I've spoken to the council and I can purchase the land from them in order to build a similar drive, so that's the next step. All fun and games