New driveway advice please - has to be permeable

[PermeableDriveway]

Hoping that some of you will have had to install a new driveway and can give me guidance. I currently have a path next to a patch of grass just over 10m wide. I really only need enough for 1 car, so want to keep the grass as much as possible and not keen on walls in case of poor parking/doors scratching on them when flung open (DC). Can anyone advise on materials or special features (drain?) or show pictures? I'm a bit of a blank canvas at the moment and looking for ideas and suggestions.

Gravel? I'm sure you can get permeable brick but it will be very expensive.

Gravel or resin

I love my resin drive.

Do you have a dropped kerb, or have you applied for one yet?

If you have any services under your drive that you might need to access, don't have a single-pour finish like tarmac or resin. If any needed to be lifted for access you would have to have the whole thing redone. Consider brick or cobble if that's the case.

Hoggin?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoggin

Do you have a budget?

Hoggin doesn't work if a drive isn't fairly level. And it can get messy when wet. We're presently considering what to do with ours- so far, gravel with undermatting to stop it shifting a lot is winning- but the matting makes it more expensive per sq m. (Gravel is normally a cheap option compared to other ways.)

(you may need planning permission for a new drive, and they do sometimes insist on it being permeable)

Thanks everyone. I was looking at resin earlier today as an option I like as the path currently has gravel and I get it stuck in my shoes/it gets walked into the house. I have confirmation from the council I can proceed and am waiting for the final sign off from highways who have verbally confirmed I can have a drop curb too.

Thank you @TheYoungestSibling for mentioning that as I do have a water main in the current pathway and if I went for resin that would be an issue. Likewise @BlueMongoose thank you for mentioning it would need to be level for Hoggin as this also looked ideal but there is a definite slope as well as a step currently so would not be flat.

I have no idea how much to expect at the moment but have savings so price shouldn't be too much of an issue if something works and looks good with minimal maintenance. Our old house had permeable bricks and the weeds in between were hard to get rid of and weedkiller sometimes had to be used, which I would like to avoid as we have dogs.

A friend of ours has plastic grid things which you bury and has grassed the area over the top. It looks lovely and can still be used as garden space when the car is parked elsewhere. He installed it himself so could be done cheaply by a handiperson or you maybe? You could gravel it and plant into the gravel if you didn't want grass.

There are some nice examples of just using a strip of paving to park on and keeping the rest of the area green.

100mm depth of compacted Type 1 and then 30-40mm of gravel spread over the top. Cheap and permeable.

Thank you for those pictures @TwigTheWonderKid - lovely idea. Currently the side has a lot of bulbs in and is easy to maintain - doesn't need weeding or anything, so I am worried anything left open might need extra work with keeping weeds down (I am not good at weeding and in the old house the bricks had moss which became slippery and weeds sprouted all over which looked terrible and took a whole day to try to pull up). What would you suggest to plant in the middle - I see succulents there but worried anything else would grow too 'leggy' and I'd have to be out there maintaining it? Maybe chamomile or something (always fancied a chamomile lawn!).

Yes, chamomile would be perfect as long as the area gets some sun.Or a creeping thyme.

If you plant something quite dense like that it will crowd out weeds plus if it's already green, rather than expanse of brick or paving then the odd weed won't look too bad.