Would the council drop this kerb?

[eltax91]

Hi guys

I've recently had my drive dug up and re-finished, and have effectively widened the usable area significantly. Below is a grab from google maps, the tree's and grass have all gone (except one tree) and I can now park a car on the drive between the boundary line and my house, in the place where a "third garage" might be if it was triple (hope that makes sense!!).

Question is, the kerb marked in red, would the council even consider dropping it, or is it too close to the corner? If it matters, our road is a cul-de-sac and the other on the minor road for the rest of the estate access. If so, anyone any experience of just how much they charge for such services?

Cheers in advance for the advice

[ManFromDelmonte]

I assume not as you would be driving over their grass verge.

[andy-xr]

It's roughly £100 per yard from when I was quoted, and I doubt they'd be keen on having to sort out the verge and the grass given how close it is to the corner and generally how much of a PITA it'd be.

You can get a visit booked and see though, no commitment/obligation assessment

[TooMany2cvs]

You can get to that parking space without crossing that verge, probably even without moving the car in the middle.

[LordGrover]

From this angle looks v close to junction

[stevesingo]

What you are asking is, "can I reduce the parking on the street so I can access my land over a wider area?"

I have no idea of what the council's policy on this may be, but I would ask the other residents if it would impact them before approaching the council.

A friend’s neighbour recently did a similar thing and reduced the available roadside parking in the cul-de-sac by on 10m. My friend no longer has the option of parking one car on the drive and one car on the road as there is insufficient space on the road to do so. Cue, musical cars if he wants to use the now blocked in car.

Worth considering.

[Accelebrate]

My dropped kerb was added by the council at the request of the previous owner, it's quite close to a junction and covered up some of the grass verge:



However there was no existing driveway, and the property is in an area where there's limited on street parking for other residents, so that might have swayed things in the previous owners favour?

[Vee]

Why would the dropped kerb need to be wider than the driveway ?

[JulianHJ]

stevesingo said:

What you are asking is, "can I reduce the parking on the street so I can access my land over a wider area?"

I'd say that's a bit too close to the junction for anyone to reasonably expect to park there.

[poing]

Vee said:

Why would the dropped kerb need to be wider than the driveway ?

Because he's made his driveway wider now, it's just not shown on the street view image.

[Vee]

poing said:

Vee said:

Why would the dropped kerb need to be wider than the driveway ?

Because he's made his driveway wider now, it's just not shown on the street view image.

Sorry, misread the OP.

[McSam]

stevesingo said:

What you are asking is, "can I reduce the parking on the street so I can access my land over a wider area?"

Look how close it is to the junction. It would not be acceptable to park a car at the kerbside there.

Am I reading the OP correctly, that the grass verge is also gone and it's all paved now?

[eltax91]

Hi all, yep I've widened the drive now. My first instinct was it was closer to the corner. The drive has been down since before Christmas and to be honest it's perfectly fine as-is. I've been using it no problem. My main reason is I just dropped my toy car (MX5) on to coilovers, and now it's scraping my drive if i exit over the the current dropped kerb, it grounds out in the middle of the car and has caused some damage to my lovely new drive.

You can't tell from the photo's, but if the kerb were dropped, I could access the drive without trouble (using some temporary timber sheeting currently) and then manouvere into the garage.

Here's the best angle I can find that shows the kerb and the new drive width. Here I am sttod where the dropped kerb would be, on the grass berge.



For those talking about parking on the street, nobody parks on the road on this street, ever. Each drive has room for between 2+ cars, and it's too close to the corner for anyone to consider parking anyway.

[sandman77]

Each authority has there own charges for providing dropped kerbs (footway crossing). Glasgow charge about £1600 for a standard detail.

The council may have a policy on how wide a footway crossing is allowed to be and they may also not allow them to be within a certain distance of a junction. You can only ask and see what they say.

Your driveway looks great btw.

[eltax91]

sandman77 said:

Each authority has there own charges for providing dropped kerbs (footway crossing). Glasgow charge about £1600 for a standard detail.

The council may have a policy on how wide a footway crossing is allowed to be and they may also not allow them to be within a certain distance of a junction. You can only ask and see what they say.

Your driveway looks great btw.

Yeh I think I will contact the council and ask. I put the thread up thinking i'm scuppered as it's too close to the corner, but seeing others, maybe not!

Thanks for the compliments on the drive, that is (was) a whole other thread!!

[Cliftonite]

Councils generally have a policy with regard to maximum width of a dropped kerb.

Usually around the width of a double garage?

[jdw1234]

I maintain 1950/60s houses like that are the way forward.

Better room and plot sizes and better parking compared to new builds.

Change the plastic cladding for wood and change the front/garage door for a Hormann etc. and they look awesome.

[KTF]

Assuming your profile is correct, read all about it here: http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/highways/road_pathwa...

[V8 TEJ]

I had a similar situation a couple of years back. My local council (Slough) did agree to do it at a cost of 2k. I had no choice as the grass verge had a double kerb (one on top of the other) even though many neighbours bump the kerb

[liner33]

They did mine ok removing the verge in the process , cost me about £900 for my half as I split the bill with the neighbour , that was dropped kerb and tarmaced from the kerb to my property,