Drop kerb extension needed?

[pits]

Planning on knocking down wall at the front of the house, it is already falling down anyway, to make a bigger drive, already have single drive with a single drop kerb in place. If I concrete over the lawn at the front do I need to speak to the council and pay for a drop kerb extension?

Red is where the current drop kerb is
Blue is the wall that is coming down
Green is the angle that the driveway would be entered from using the drop kerb, the kerbs are way too high to exit straight off anyway, but at the moment it is an expense we could do without and isn't really needed in my view.

I know from rough size I shouldn't need planning to do it, as drainage etc is easy to sort out within the planning rules and size it would just be inside the "not needed" limit for planning with our local authority.

[pits]

Cheers all, I have done some more research and nosed around the street and it does seem that no one has extended the drop kerb for the double drive.

As for the planning, yes it does appear I was wrong I read the wrong SQM which our local council allows up to 5sqm, and I am way over that, so I have gone for option 2 which will be scalpings and stone dust, whacker, membrane and stones, retaining the permeable surface and should be perfect for parking car on then.

Budget isn't that tight, I just know how much a drop kerb roughly costs and it is something I would rather not spend with a kitchen and bathroom next on the list.

Thanks for all the help though, hoping to have it mostly done by Sunday.

[pits]

Majorslow said:

pits said:

Cheers all, I have done some more research and nosed around the street and it does seem that no one has extended the drop kerb for the double drive.

As for the planning, yes it does appear I was wrong I read the wrong SQM which our local council allows up to 5sqm, and I am way over that, so I have gone for option 2 which will be scalpings and stone dust, whacker, membrane and stones, retaining the permeable surface and should be perfect for parking car on then.

Budget isn't that tight, I just know how much a drop kerb roughly costs and it is something I would rather not spend with a kitchen and bathroom next on the list.

Thanks for all the help though, hoping to have it mostly done by Sunday.

Hi Pitts,

If I may be bold to suggest that where you think the car tyres will roll over your new parking area, that you dig a wee bit deeper, and chuck in extra scalping's and really pack down hard so over time you don't get such a pronounced dip in the drive. I did this for my last driveway and it worked a treat

You may indeed, where it would roll on would be old flower bed so I have already chucked some of the old stone brick into this area, this will get whacker plate first, then scalpings, I have a feeling that sinkage may happen in that area anyway so will be taking steps to prevent this.

Hopefully it stops the frigging cat crapping everywhere as well, and hopefully none of the neighbours complain, but it anyone did then the whole crescent would end up being drop kerb