Best option for front path surfacing

195aph

you should be looking at a product that meets the criteria for Sustainable Urban Drainage Solutions (SUDS) to help avoid flooding.

There are lots of plastic pavers (open mesh grids) on the market that can be filled with gravel, grass or even low growing herbs.

Dare to be different and do the right thing for the planet and your neighbourhood.

NervyBuyer

FreeBear said:

Slinky said: To supply and lay 150mm thickness of Type 1 hardcore well compacted to the correct falls and levels.

As a neighbour said to me (he does patios & stuff) when I said I was putting down 150mm+ of MOT1 - "Just how many trucks are you planning on parking ?".

In response to comments about using tarmac, concrete, or paving slabs - Anything more than 5m² of impervious paving may well be subject to planning permission. Block paving, if done right, is permeable and would fall under permitted development.

It's already tarmac-ed (has been for at least 25 years, since before I owned it) so wouldn't replacing like with like avoid the need for planning permission?

NervyBuyer

195aph said:

you should be looking at a product that meets the criteria for Sustainable Urban Drainage Solutions (SUDS) to help avoid flooding.

There are lots of plastic pavers (open mesh grids) on the market that can be filled with gravel, grass or even low growing herbs.

Dare to be different and do the right thing for the planet and your neighbourhood.

That gravel arrangement looks like a possibility. I don't think grass is suitable for walking 12m up to your front door. The areas to either side of the path (our front gardens) are already completely grass (approx 120sqm).

bjorn_toby_wilde

NervyBuyer said:

FreeBear said:

Slinky said: To supply and lay 150mm thickness of Type 1 hardcore well compacted to the correct falls and levels.

As a neighbour said to me (he does patios & stuff) when I said I was putting down 150mm+ of MOT1 - "Just how many trucks are you planning on parking ?".

In response to comments about using tarmac, concrete, or paving slabs - Anything more than 5m² of impervious paving may well be subject to planning permission. Block paving, if done right, is permeable and would fall under permitted development.

It's already tarmac-ed (has been for at least 25 years, since before I owned it) so wouldn't replacing like with like avoid the need for planning permission?

You should be fine if the water runs off into the garden either side.

”If the surface to be covered is more than five square metres planning permission will be needed for laying traditional, impermeable driveways that do not provide for the water to run to a permeable area.”