Can I add a concrete apron to an old house with crawl space?

[gjoshi]

Hello experts,

I am planning to have a concrete apron on LHS and RHS. I am thinking of 1700 MM on LHS and 700 MM on RHS.The land is slightly sloping from RHS to LHS. My LHS looks like the following,

LHSFRONT-LHS

My RHS is like below,

RHS

This is a 40-60-year-old house with a crawl space. One of the concreters said that on LHS, I should not be doing concrete from the foundation/brick wall; instead, I should leave a 500-700mm gap and then have a concrete path. On the RHS side, he suggested that I should not do any concreting as my neighbour's house is at a higher elevation. The crawl space is shown on LHS side here.

I am not fixed on doing concreting. The problem I am trying to fix it, 

• During rain, I should be able to walk from the pergola to the road through LHS/RHS side without mud. 
• A clean look. The current roadbase looks dirty.

Other things that are worth noting are, 

• The stormwater goes to the back of the property. My plumber says I might have a pit. 
• I am not sure if concreting would make the existing situation worse.

Please share your experience on if I should be doing concreting. 

Thanks and Regards

[Dave-1]

Evening @gjoshi 

Sounds like good steps The failing rain on the bebbles down to the ag pipe is the way it should work. I have gravel all around my ag pipe next to my garage and even after a rainpour event there is no water pooling on my pavers

Dave

[Nailbag]

Loom forward to the next update @gjoshi. and yes I would expect t's "OK for the surface water to fall on pebbles and flow through ag-drain" as long as that part of there plumbers design for the system.

Nailbag 

[gjoshi]

Thanks @Nailbag @Dave-1. This is why I asked if the ag-drain needs to be parallel to the foundation/stem wall or towards the neighbour boundary. It is not a massive runoff - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yMlM9yhdv6E. I'll keep you posted on this.

Thanks

[Dave-1]

Morning @gjoshi 

Id have the ag-drain closer to the fence line, mostly because of any overflow from the gutters as genereally the underside of teh eve wont have direct rain on it. In the area next to my garage (about the same width as your side yard) I actually did a bit of a snake shape tho it was only for around 2m worth of pipe. Im not sure which would provide a better drainage style "snake" or "straight ag-pipe tho.

Dave