On 18/08/2011 14:35, Janet Tweedy wrote:
Someone has asked my advice about parking a car on what at the moment is
grass.

How badly is the grass suffering?

Plenty of people park on grass with two tracks of hard standing for the
car tyres or that hexagonal plastic mesh let into the ground to spread
the weight of the car in wet winter weather.

Provided the car is not parked there all day every day and the grass
gets to see some light I doubt if there is too much of a problem.

I have no idea really what to suggest or what might be feasible.
At the moment her son parks his mini on her small patch of grass .
leaving about 8 foot of soil between the car and the window. i suggested
we make the grass into perhaps chippings and then a barrier between that
and the window so she can have some shrubs.
He has to park off the road as their road is quite narrow and lots of
people park there.
Is it at all possible bearing in mind the grass/lawn is now quite hard
and worn, to perhaps kill or skim off the grass and then put weed
supressant blanket down and then heavy duty chippinmgs?

Hoping for some pointers here. Don't think she could afford full blown
landscapers to do it for her etc. and of course you can't pave front
gardens.

I thought it was just that you had to get planning permission now (not
that I am encouraging concrete or asphalt jungle mentality).

The other side of her front path, we are going to make a sort of grasses
and Mediterranean stuff as the grass there is also pretty awful and it's
only about 4 foot wide.

Or a fern garden if it is mostly in shade that is what I have done with
one of my tricky narrow areas of shade.

Regards,
Martin Brown