Policy information sourced from Hammersmith & Fulham Planning Guidance

TR23 Forecourt parking and vehicle crossovers

The council will consider favourably planning applications for parking on forecourts and front gardens together with associated footways crossovers, where:

  • the road to which access is required has a night time on-street parking stress is of 80% orless;
  • It will not endanger the safety of pedestrians or cyclists;
  • It will not be out of character with the streetscape;
  • It will not result in narrow pavements and would create an uneven surface for pedestrians and cyclists to negotiate;
  • the area on which the vehicle is to be parked is of a minimum size of 4.8m long (likely to be over this minimum size to prevent overhang of the vehicle onto the adjacent public highway) and 2.3m wide. See KP4;
  • vehicular access to this area will not involve any manoeuvres causing danger to the public;
  • garden gates do not open onto the public footway;
  • proposed crossovers and forecourts are located a minimum of 10 metres from road junctions junctions, road bends, pedestrian crossings or bus stops/bus stop cage markings.

For more information please see the Hammersmith & Fulham Planning Guidance