You should wait for the vehicle access to be finished before starting to construct your driveway. This is because our works may need your driveway to be altered.
For example, we may have to replace the concrete footway edging at the back of the footway during the construction of the dropped kerb as this is part of the highway.
As we will be lowering the footway or verge, there is no guarantee that the new edgings will be at the existing level or line.
If your driveway is already installed, you may have to remove a strip of any existing path or driveway to facilitate replacement of the edging. The removal and reinstatement of your driveway is your responsibility.
If this is needed we will confirm this when we give you your quotation.
Failure to prepare the site before our works will result in our contractor having to leave the site. There may be a return visit fee of £300. Make sure that you have removed any fences, walls, hedges and a minimum 300mm strip of your existing driveway (if required) before our visit.
Your garden may contain manhole covers and stopcocks. Access to them is always required so they must not be covered over.
Materials
If your new driveway includes a hardstanding over 5 square meters using nonporous materials that don't let water through, you need planning permission.
Examples of such materials include:
- non-porous tarmac
- concrete
- concrete paving slaps or non-permeable paving
- non-porous resin
You don't need planning permission to build or replace a driveway of any size if:
- you use permeable or porous surfacing such as gravel, permeable concrete block paving or porous asphalt
- the rainwater flows to a lawn or border to drain naturally
- you provide a bespoke positive drainage solution
You must make sure that non-bound loose materials (such as gravel) does not spill over onto the public highway.
A simple but effective alternative to continuous surfacing is wheel strips. These are formed by laying 2 lines of heavy duty paving slabs.