LANDSCAPING SERVICES
PERMITTED PAVING
2019 – another year of flooding
around the UK – provided a timely
reminder of the importance of
sustainable drainage or SuDS.
Although a requirement for most
new developments, other often
forgotten planning measures
encouraging SuDS also apply to
new or replacement paving around
existing properties, as the trade
association Interpave explains.
Many planning authorities have
already embraced SuDS and
incorporated requirements for
them in local policies being
implemented now, impacting on
planning applications. This stance
is supported by the 2019 National
Planning Policy Framework
(NPPF). But, in addition to new
developments, earlier changes to
planning ‘Permitted Development’
rules aim to apply SuDS techniques
to new or replacement paving
around existing homes and also
various non-domestic buildings.
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Before these changes, paving
anywhere in a garden related to a
‘dwellinghouse’ or within various
non-residential properties, using
any materials, was considered
to be ‘permitted development’ –
effectively, an automatic planning
permission without needing a
planning application.
Planning Changes
For dwellings, the changes take away
permitted development rights from
new or replacement drives or other
paving between a house and the
street, unless it is permeable paving
or drains water onto a permeable
area within the property. Otherwise
planning permission is now needed
before installing new, or replacing
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