Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Dec 11, 2020 12:46 am Have a steep front yard and driveway. Want to clear front yard and expand driveway to side to put in carport. I will need a retaining wall to support carport area and want it to be level with front of house. Is this a possible solution to decrease steepness of driveway and yard? Is it allowed in Qld? Steep driveway and yard.Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Steep driveway 2Jan 08, 2022 10:49 am j5778 Have a steep front yard and driveway. Want to clear front yard and expand driveway to side to put in carport. I will need a retaining wall to support carport area and want it to be level with front of house. Is this a possible solution to decrease steepness of driveway and yard? Is it allowed in Qld? Steep driveway and yard.Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Hi, sorry I know this is an older post but I'm just curious if you ended up doing the carport? We have a similar front yard layout and are considering doing a carport. Re: Steep driveway 3Jan 30, 2022 11:39 pm j5778 Have a steep front yard and driveway. Want to clear front yard and expand driveway to side to put in carport. I will need a retaining wall to support carport area and want it to be level with front of house. Is this a possible solution to decrease steepness of driveway and yard? Is it allowed in Qld? Steep driveway and yard.Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ You may be limited to driveway size. Contact your local Council and query about the expansion of the driveway. It all depends on your local planning laws. Do not give way your residential address Re: Steep driveway 4Mar 06, 2022 4:32 pm Hi all, I am building in NSW. My driveway is not with the builder and I will give it to a tradesman. However, I am not sure at which stage I should ask the tradesman to get it done since my builder wont touch it. Can someone help me in understanding the process what will be my responsibilities and what will be tradesman will do? This is with respective to the council approvals and inspection related actually. Update time: In my last post I had everything programmed to the minute for June a 13 handover....well that didn't happen as you can see from the photos below. We seemed… 104 374561 Very common on rendered homes Smaller suppliers get the lower quality raw materials 6 12398 We've had decent weather for last 7 weeks and now the drvieway has been cut out we had an evening of 50mm of rain including all the water from half the street, ground is… 0 4669 |