driveway drainage

  1. DaveFix

    Creation of Driveway - Soakaway or use existing drainage?

    My front garden slopes down towards the highway. I would like to build a retaining wall and dig the garden out to create a PIC driveway. I understand that creating a non-permeable driveway greater 5²m would require planning permission. As the footprint of my car itself is over 8²m I've recently...
  2. M

    Advice on Driveway too high

    I have a concrete driveway which is too high, see attached images. The drive is quite long (think 4.5 car lengths) and slopes downwards away from the house. We are seeing damp issues in the room to the right of the doorway (see second image). There are 3 waste drainage channels along the drive...
    • mic233
    • Thread
    • damp damp proof course driveway drainage
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Building
  3. V

    Driveway drainage ideas to avoid planning permission

    Hi, Looking to replace current half concrete/half tarmac drive (we had the tarmac installed but it wasn’t done very well) to a new drive and trying to adhere to where wouldn’t need planning permission. With that in mind, with the size of my drive being approx 7 metres by 6ish metres there...
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