Access to busy main road overcome by driveaway

Vehicle access for homes by installing DriveAway car revolves from British Turntable.

Two young families living near to on another on the busy A32 Brockhurst Road - the main route from Fareham into Gosport in south Hampshire - have been working together to solve vehicle access to their homes by installing DriveAway car revolves from British Turntable without reducing or spoiling the front garden area, and at the same time satisfying borough council regulations.

With the local highways department not encouraging residents to reverse onto or off the main road - a dangerous procedure in any book - and the planning department resistant to the practice of opening up the front garden to create a turnaround area, homeowners have found it difficult, if not impossible, to park their cars on their own properties.

Being built in the late Victorian era, the semi-detached houses were not designed with drives, neither was there a dropped kerb at the roadside to assist vehicles to drive onto or off the properties smoothly.

Parking nearby is scarce, and with a baby and all the paraphernalia that goes with infants to transport from car to house, not to mention the shopping, the situation for both theses couples was becoming almost unmanageable.

Installation of the DriveAway turntables has now solved all the problems faced by the two young families.

As they can now demonstrate they can drive onto and off their properties in a forward direction, the council has agreed to allow the kerb to be dropped in front of their houses; the gardens have not been sacrificed; the families feel more secure having their cars in close proximity to their houses; and the effort taken to load and unload the car when on a family outing has been reduced considerably.

A DriveAway is being flush-fitted into block-paved areas at each of the Gosport homes, although its low profile construction allows it to be surface-mounted where flush-fitting is not an option.

Developed to solve the dangerous procedure of reversing onto or off a busy main road, the revolve is also proving to be eco- and user-friendly.

Manually driven and easily installed, it has been instrumental in gaining planning consents for new-build and in-fill housing where access provisions onto the highway have otherwise been restricted or absent.

Operation of the DriveAway is simple: the car is driven onto the turntable and when the time comes for it to be driven off again it can be gently pushed round with a minimum of effort.

It is well engineered, reliable and robust, and promises many years of trouble-free operation.

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