by Katie Harvey

Driveways have never ranked highly as an object of our affections.
To most of us, they are simply the spaces outside our front door where we park our cars and leave our wheelie bins. True, they come in all sorts of sizes and guises - tarmac and cobblestone, paved and raised to name a few variations - and are adorned with various weeds, oil stains and manholes. But there’s no getting away from the fact that a driveway is, well, a driveway.
In fact, such is the extent to which some of us dislike our private patches of concrete - especially those of us who don’t drive - that we turn them into conservatories and front gardens and build extensions to our houses on them. Empty driveways are a waste of space and aesthetically displeasing ones at that.
Or are they? Could it be that driveways have a little bit more to offer than we give them credit for and do they therefore deserve a bit more appreciation and respect than we have traditionally bestowed upon them?
It seems they do.
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