Paving & Driveways in Datchet.

In most cases, yes. Permeable surfacing does not add to the run-off Datchet's watercourses and drainage network already have to cope with, and it usually keeps a new driveway inside permitted development rather than triggering a full planning application. We confirm ground conditions with a percolation test at survey before finalising the specification, because the right permeable build-up depends on what the test tells us, not on a standard answer for the postcode.

Yes. We handle the dropped kerb and vehicle crossover application with the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead, and build in eight to twelve weeks for approval as a matter of course. Where flood defence works near the green are affecting road access, we check the current programme before confirming a start date so the crossover work does not land in the middle of a closure.

Deeper than a standard specification on plots where the water table sits close to the surface for months at a time, which is common near the Myrke and Datchet Common Brook. We do not fix a depth from the postcode; the survey and any percolation testing set the sub-base build-up, and where attenuation is needed instead of a soakaway that adds further depth and structure below the surface.

It should not, and a permeable specification is largely how we keep it that way. A non-permeable surface concentrates run-off at one point rather than letting it soak away across a garden, which is exactly the wrong direction to push water in a village already managing four watercourses. Where the ground cannot take water away on site, we design to a controlled outfall rather than simply moving the problem to the boundary.