In article , Maurice W
writes
Chums

I'm slowly (as is my wont) progressing thoughts about asking for a
dropped kerb permission, to park on the front garden. (The nature of
the road is that is required planning permission).

The local council are being helpful in email communication, but their
latest states


xxx Rd is classified as a Secondary Distributor Road and the Highway
Authority would not allow the formation of a vehicle access without an
off street turning arrangement. Clearly, this would not be achievable
within the dimensions of your front garden and any planning
application would be recommended for refusal.


which appears to be saying that they're expecting the vehicle access
to be big enough to turn a vehicle around on it. The neighbouring
houses all have narrower gardens, being terraced, and one actually has
a picasso parked on it, which pretty much takes up all the available
space when its parked on there, never mind being able to turn it!

Of all the houses, ours has the widest garden, but on account of a bay
window, it's not as deep. On account of this, our intention is to buy
a super-mini, which would actually be small enough to turn on the
parking space in front of the house.

Anyone had experience of this specific objections to a dropped kerb?

M


I am currently going through a planning process on a renovation
property, at the pre-application discussion stage.

There is no off-road access at the moment and the plan is to make a
couple of parking spaces on the area of the front garden.

I spoke to the LA about this and they initially said they had no
problems with this but would require a turning area so as to "allow
entry and exit in a forward gear".

This would be problematical given the proposed ideas for a side
extension to the existing property and so I asked to meet them on site
to discuss the options.

I met a council officer who recognised that the position of the property
allowed good eyelines in both directions and given that in the 15-20
minutes we were on site about 2 cars passed the property (it is in a
quite Wiltshire village, but is on a classified road) she agreed that a
turning area would not be necessary. We did also have a look at a few
of the neighbouring properties which clearly did not have turning areas.

She has since followed this up in writing.

I don't know if this will help you, but it shows that a common sense
approach can be made if the relevant parties are willing.

Cheers

Martin

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Martin Carroll