<b><b>Depending on its dimensions, today&amp;’s driveway requires an element of dexterity. It has to be as much at home, says Andrew Leech, to the modern saloon or 4x4 as it does to the practice pitch for football, cricket and basketball.</b></b><br><b>In many new family properties the driveway is fast becoming a multi-functional arena for all manner of activities. But above all it has to &amp;“sell&amp;” the home that stands at its opposite end.</b><br><b>Where margins permit and customer demand predominates, concrete block paving seems to be favourite driveway surface (see page 60), but clay pavers, pressed concrete and asphalt, are all very much in the frame. </b><br><b>Last year more than 20 million square metres of concrete block paving were laid in the UK. For what it&amp;’s worth that&amp;’s about 0.3 sq m per head of population which is roughly four times less than our continental partners put down each year.</b><br><b><b>Driving force</b></b><br> Despite the popularity of concrete block, the cream on the driveway cake has to be the clay paver which, to all intents and purposes, out performs the other driveway contenders, but is just that &amp;“little bit more expensive&amp;”. <p></p><p>Baggeridge, the well know brickmaker, is one of the most prolific producers of …