Posted & filed under Community Resilience, Flood Mitigation, In The Press, Planning, SuDS.

Some useful ideas for creating ‘green’ parking space for your driveway on Gardeners Question Time on Sunday 24th November 2024.

Extract from the programme here

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00254hb – starts at 22.22 minutes. NB Planning permission is usually required for driveways that are larger than five square meters – [Self-Assessment-form-F—hard-standing-kerb-gate.pdf](https://www.newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk/…/Self-Assessment…).

Run-off from the increasing number of gardens being paved over with impermeable surfaces to create parking space or for ‘convenience’ exacerbates the amount of surfacewater on roads which might be vulnerable to flooding as the drainage systems can become ‘hydraulically overloaded’ i.e. they struggle!