Driveway Paving

A paved driveway can really enhance the look and value of your home as well as creating a stylish parking area which is easy to maintain. With a variety of colours it is possible to find stone paving to complement the period and styling of your home. You can create a multicoloured or monotone finish with the paving stones laid in a standard or decorative form.

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Natural Stone Block Paving

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Manmade Block Paving

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Large Driveway Paving Slabs

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Grass Paving Grids

Whether you are looking to creating a whole new driveway or simply wish to convert the front lawn area so that you have an additional parking area for occasional use, but would like it to look good the remainder of the time, grass paving grid systems are an excellent choice. They offer a reinforced grass area or overspill car park/driveway, which ensures permeability by allowing rainwater to soak back into the land below.

As the Government has outlined that ”planning permission is now required to lay traditional impermeable driveways that allow uncontrolled runoff of rainwater from front gardens onto roads, because this can contribute to flooding and pollution of watercourses”, these paving grids offer a wonderful alternative to traditional block paving driveways.

Grassguard from Marshalls offers the benefits of a driveway while retaining the garden look. A permeable grass grid for domestic hardstanding areas providing a sustainable alternative to traditional block paving, maintaining the environmental benefits of a natural grassed area.

We also sell Grasspark from Pavestone which is a permeable paving grid which allows the grass to grow through whilst providing hard standing suitable for parking cars and vans, yet at the same time keeping the area essentially grassland.

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Please note that “from 1 October 2008, the Government will introduce changes to the General Permitted Development Order, making the hard surfacing of more than five square metres of domestic front gardens permitted development only where the surface in question is rendered permeable. Use of traditional materials, such as impermeable concrete, where there was no facility in place to ensure permeability, requires an application for planning permission".

Full details on the "Guidance on the permeable surfacing of front gardens" is available from the Communities and Local Government and Environment Agency.