Creating or widening vehicle access to a domestic property

You'll always require planning permission to create or alter any means of access to your property where this falls within your domestic curtilage and opens onto a public road.

'Road' means a road, bridge, viaduct or subway which is repairable at the expense of the States or any parish, and includes the carriageway, footpath and any other part of such a road, bridge, viaduct or subway.

'Domestic curtilage’ is the area of land on which a dwelling house / flat sits and includes the residential land immediately around the building, which serves the building in some defined and meaningful way. It doesn't include a field or other open land next to a house, even if it's in the same ownership.