Driveway on council leasehold property

[Monkey987]

I own a groundfloor flat of a leasehold property where the council own the land.

We live next to a Premier league football stadium which despite free football day parking permits we are still not able to park.

Do you think I would be able to get permission from the council (leaseholders) to pave over my front garden and create a driveway on my leasehold property?

The front and back garden is my private garden.

Does anyone have experience getting planning permission from the council as leaseholders.

Shouldn't be an issue. Mine is the same and no issues with people getting drives . Near enough the whole street have them

It would be a shame though. A beautiful front garden turned into yet another tarmac driveway? The football matches are presumably only about once a fortnight, but the ugly driveway will be every day.

How do you know it's a beautiful garden lol. Could be full of brambles and an old sofa.

Give your local planning officer a call and have a chat about parking issues on match days they should be able to give you an insite into whether consent will be given for a driveway. It's normally the in's and out's of dropping of the kerb they'll want to know about.

Worth a try but you will also have to get the kerb dropped and that can be expensive even if The Council agree to it

Yeah I would think it's more the kerb dropping that will be an issue - it's not cheap. In terms of 'ruining' a front garden - as it's for occasional use you could do a nice gravel garden with appropriate planting around space for the car (and some plants can even handle being driven over occasionally).