Dropped kerb - Bureaucracy nightmare?
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I'm looking to understand the experience of people who have installed a dropped kerb when there is an existing cpz parking bay in front of their house.
My local council are insisting on a Traffic Regulation Order, plus S287 application. These both come with significant costs, in total, they are likely to amount to more than the cost of the works and may take up to a year to process. I've already completed a certificate of proposed lawful development.
Did your council require this? Is the legislation for dropping a kerb in an existing CPZ being applied consistently? From some research by AI it seems to be different in all councils, with few being so stringent.
It was my intention to get an electric car. But running a cable across the pavement is also forbidden.
What was your experience?
My local council are insisting on a Traffic Regulation Order, plus S287 application. These both come with significant costs, in total, they are likely to amount to more than the cost of the works and may take up to a year to process. I've already completed a certificate of proposed lawful development.
Did your council require this? Is the legislation for dropping a kerb in an existing CPZ being applied consistently? From some research by AI it seems to be different in all councils, with few being so stringent.
It was my intention to get an electric car. But running a cable across the pavement is also forbidden.
What was your experience?
I don't know this for a fact but I am guessing your issue is the CPZ and the effects you D/Kerb may or may not have on it.
For us (E.Yorks) without any restrictions it is £50 for the application pack within which is a list of all exclusions/exceptions, on application an inspector comes to check (fee just a few £100) then completion through an approved contractor which for us they all were around £1500 - £2000.
For us (E.Yorks) without any restrictions it is £50 for the application pack within which is a list of all exclusions/exceptions, on application an inspector comes to check (fee just a few £100) then completion through an approved contractor which for us they all were around £1500 - £2000.
When we did ours years ago, it came with a caveat from the council that neighbours had the right to park across the front of the dropped curb and block access and there was nothing we could do about it. There was no cpz along the road, just free parking.
We sold the house with all permissions in place for the new owners to sort out.
We sold the house with all permissions in place for the new owners to sort out.
In Richmond I had this. I gave up and sold the house.
The drive would result in a loss of a parking place so they needed a parking survey to proove if this was an issue.
My reply was the place lost was replaced by my drive.
There was also a tree which of course has more rights than I do !
The drive would result in a loss of a parking place so they needed a parking survey to proove if this was an issue.
My reply was the place lost was replaced by my drive.
There was also a tree which of course has more rights than I do !
My father got a dropped kerb installed a few years ago at no cost.
Council contractor was resurfacing the road outside the house. He spoke to the site manager and asked if it could be done, when the resurfacing was finished the dropped kerb was present, no cost. All this was before he even moved into the house and at a house that didn’t have a drive - just pedestrian access.
Might have helped that he was the local police inspector and went to speak to the site manager in uniform and it was in the late 70s.
Council contractor was resurfacing the road outside the house. He spoke to the site manager and asked if it could be done, when the resurfacing was finished the dropped kerb was present, no cost. All this was before he even moved into the house and at a house that didn’t have a drive - just pedestrian access.
Might have helped that he was the local police inspector and went to speak to the site manager in uniform and it was in the late 70s.
IJWS15 said:
My father got a dropped kerb installed a few years ago at no cost.
Council contractor was resurfacing the road outside the house. He spoke to the site manager and asked if it could be done, when the resurfacing was finished the dropped kerb was present, no cost. All this was before he even moved into the house and at a house that didn t have a drive - just pedestrian access.
Might have helped that he was the local police inspector and went to speak to the site manager in uniform and it was in the late 70s.
Haha you would have no hope now even if you were prime minister. Council contractor was resurfacing the road outside the house. He spoke to the site manager and asked if it could be done, when the resurfacing was finished the dropped kerb was present, no cost. All this was before he even moved into the house and at a house that didn t have a drive - just pedestrian access.
Might have helped that he was the local police inspector and went to speak to the site manager in uniform and it was in the late 70s.
I took a gamble and bought a house that had no dropped kerb this year, fee was £100 for the application and then £750 for the actual dropped kerb, was expecting it to be double that.
When I submitted my plan to the council I included a picture in paint that had two cars on the drive, one an EV which may have swayed their opinion as it would mean one fewer car parked on the road.
Further up the road a neighbour has an R8 with no dropped kerb and even with the front lift it's painful watching him park on his drive.
When I submitted my plan to the council I included a picture in paint that had two cars on the drive, one an EV which may have swayed their opinion as it would mean one fewer car parked on the road.
Further up the road a neighbour has an R8 with no dropped kerb and even with the front lift it's painful watching him park on his drive.
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