Do I need planning permission to make my garden into a driveway? GCC

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Can anyone help me navigate the horrific Glasgow City Council website to find the info that I need to determine whether planning permission is needed to convert my garden to a driveway.

I know I need permission for the dropped kerb but cannot locate anything that tells me clearly whether planning permission is needed for the driveway itself if I am in a non-listed house outside of any conservation areas.

Also, once I have found determine this, can I apply for the dropped kerb before any work is started as I obviously don't want to convert my garden untili know I will get permission for the dropped kerb.

The GCC website is abysmal.

Thanks!

I would just contact them to ask, then you will know for certain.

Note that Planning Permission may be required for the installation of a driveway within your property and any such issues should be resolved before application is made to Glasgow City Council for a footway crossing. Contact Planning for advice or view our policy in the City Plan.

certainly in England you need consent to install any kind of 'impermiable' surface eg drive, patio etc

The Planning Portal website would probably be able to advise but probably just best to contact planning by email for householder pre app advice. Some up to date photos and dimensions would be helpful to provide.

You could try calling them, but the one time tried to speak to anyone it was equally abysmal.

Good luck.

Why not consider keeping the garden, planting a tree and helping the planet?

I'm sure OP really appreciates this very useful comment.

Probably because can't stick her car in a tree

I can already see her coming back with 'why not to cycle instead of driving a car?'

I’m in Glasgow and needed planning permission. The best thing is to is to email and enquire. There were various reasons, one of which was that we are in a 4 in a block and we were only allowed to pave <50% of the front garden.
Be warned that we also had to apply afterwards for the dropped kerb. And there were other rules for that as well as a separate cost. It was long and a lot more complicated than it needed to be. As it is they still haven’t painted our white h-bar thing. 6 months now I think. Need to remind Dh to chase them again (all DH idea so he has been doing all the work for it).

Interesting to see that the planning permission seems to apply to impermeable surfaces. Does that mean you can install a driveway with a permeable surface without permissions?

‘H-bars’ are generally only painted where access is being regularly blocked. You have to pay for them and pay for them to be maintained. They have no legal meaning.

The fee we paid for permission to drop the kerb is supposed to include having an h-bar painted. All the other drives round us have one, they were put on all dropped kerbs last year when the streets where resurfaced even ones which didn't have one before. And, being next to a primary school, we have and we had issues with being blocked. No school when we moved here.

The primary school probably makes the difference. I imagine it is ‘interesting’ twice a day.

I don't notice as I'm a teacher at the opposite end of the city. I use the train as the parking there is awful 😂. But DH likes to pick me up if he finishes work early and there has been a few times he couldn't get off the drive.

good luck getting any response from GCC
A lot of their answer phone messages still say they are shut due to Covid