Overview
- Corden carried out the paving before permission and later filed a retrospective bid describing it as minor landscaping to expand bin-storage space using slabs repurposed from the rear garden.
- The submission says about 18 square metres were repaved, including an area previously covered with gravel, with an 11 square metre reduction in planting and four new trees added.
- Residents and a local association argue green space was replaced by impermeable slabs and biodiversity has been harmed, and some dispute that any front paving slabs existed before the works.
- Liberal Democrat councillor Tom Simon has urged refusal, and a conservation adviser notes council guidance that enlarging hard surfaces in front gardens is unlikely to gain consent.
- Multiple formal objections have been lodged and the planning authority has not issued a decision, with no enforcement action reported.