Paving your front garden

Building regulations

Do you need building regulations approval to pave your front garden?

Building regulations do not generally apply to paving your front garden. However, you will need to make sure that any alterations do not make access to the dwelling any less satisfactory than it was before.

So, for example, changing levels to introduce steps where none existed before would be a contravention of the regulations.

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