We are buying an old property which currently has an open fronted drive.  I just wanted to find out whether before PP is secured to extend and renovate, I can get a digger in to pull the top soil back in the front garden so that I can put down 150mm hardcore and erect a site fence ready for when development does commence?

  

Hi @flanagaj Most planing applications require a landscaping plan - IE a finished product. To preparing the site to recieve materials etc and to secure it, is not only appropriate but essential and would be considered, in my mind, a temporary measure. So crack on would be my advice.