Grass driveways - does anyone have one?

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I'm hoping to have a driveway installed on the front garden (so I have somewhere to park funnily enough), but I don't want concrete, blocks (bland as fuck) or gravel (neighbours kids like to play with it) so I'm looking at grass driveways.

These are just the same cells that use for gravel, but top soil and plant grass seed in them instead.

The idea is that I still have a grass lawn, but one I can park on without sinking into the ground, (a good base layer should see to that) and still have brilliant drainage. Due to neighbours having blocks and concrete, their drives are flooding and then freezing in the winter months, I want to avoid this (and look smug) which I think this will provide.

I'll only be having smallish cars and nothing heavier than that will be parked on it. There's a lovely thick Jasmine bush thats decided to make it's home along the edge and front (under the living room window) which would look beautiful if I can keep it.

Does anyone have one of these drives and are they any good?

I would love to do this with my drive! I don't know anyone who has, but the council recently made a huge soakaway at the bottom of our street, and used similar cells to cover the top of it. It's actually part of a nature reserve, and it was fascinating to see how quickly the local flora recolonised the site.

Would it not just look like you were parking on the lawn? Our neighbours do that and I just assumed it was because they weren't into gardens - but maybe it's a drive to them?

Quite the opposite Toomuch.

Doing this is actually preserving the grass, the soil, the drainage, the insects, plants, birds and bees. Icing over is a huge problem as it will be a slight slope, as my idiot neighbours will find out, grass drive will overcome this.

It will look as though I'm parking on the lawn, but there is a grid, just underneath that you will just about be able to see...together with the jasmine bush and what will be a large planted area with lovel scented plants and shrubs.

I'm also thinking about covering and extending the concrete steps to the front door with a stained decking.

Flooding being such a problem now you need planning permission for concrete and non permiable driveways.

Did you do this in the end. I'd really like ot get rid of our gross concrete driveway.