Refused plannig permission for driveway

[Doctor Drivel]

They can make him pull the garage down. If it gets through without them noticing, in years to come he may need to demolish it when selling, if a sharp lawyer looks into it.

[Set Square]

I totally agree - but it's pretty difficult to enforce as a condition for granting planning permission.

[Rick]

I'd just park in the garden, then arrange to have a 20 tonne lorry tip a pile of stone into the mud.

Maybe after a while I'd put a nice border in too.

Rick

[John Cartmell]

Sue them for their assumption that you're a bad driver? ;-)

[daddyfreddy]

But reversing in on a main road will hold up traffic so no different to reversing out.

[John Cartmell]

Obviously you are not a driver.

[mrcheerful]

I once saw a garden with a turntable in, so as to drive in and out the right way round.

mrcheerful

[Brian Sharrock]

AIUI; the 'correct' aka Prescot-ODPM way necessitates a means of driving _in_ and _out_ to the front. Reversing isn't permitted for planning-purposes. Your 'correct' way; reverse in then drive front-wise out - which I do - is permitted with 'grandfather' rights.

[Séan Connolly]

Another bizarre device they have around here basically allows you to park one car on top of the other on a kind of rotating lift. How it works I have no idea! It looks all very Thunderbirds ;-)

[manatbandq]

ISTR planning permission can't be enforced after a certain number of years.

MBQ

[daddyfreddy]

Yes, I am a driver. If you want to reverse into your drive then you'll have to make sure there is no traffic behind you which is going to be hard on a main road.

[John Cartmell]

But not the potential hold up that you get from someone trying to reverse into a traffic stream.

[Set Square]

Nothing like as hard as ensuring there's nothing coming when you reverse

*out*!

[somebody]

In message , John Cartmell writes

I think someone (else!) needs to check the highway code, esp with regard to reversing from a minor to a major road.

Whilst a driveway isn't specifically a road, the intent is clear.

Even disregarding that, as others posters have pointed out, I'd much rather reverse "out of traffic" than into it. Someone

[Bob Martin]

Reversing into your drive probably means reversing into the garage as well, and it will soon be full of fumes and soot..

[Nick Atty]

You don't have the choice. I went and looked at the original planning file for converting this place into a house from the planning office and making it possible to turn a car round was a condition of the planning permission.

Mind you, it was on the A46 then.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember [e-mail] saying something like:

Get a car turntable.