I want a drive

[PeteDoherty]

I can rip up my own front garden and knock the wall down and hang my own gates.

The only bit thats of concern is footpath outside my house. I'd rather be on the legal. How much will it cost me to get it dropped legally?

[V8mate]

Call the local council and ask.

They approve it (you have no right to it, even if other houses in your road have already done it), you pay fo it and then their contractors come along and do it.

[Simpo Two]

Although it wil be done by a bloke from Poland at a real cost of about £20, I fear the Council will send you an estimate in four figures...

[im]

Simpo Two said:

I fear the Council will send you an estimate in four figures...

Or at the very least the high hundreds.

[V8mate]

im said:

Simpo Two said:

I fear the Council will send you an estimate in four figures...

Or at the very least the high hundreds.

Some Councils will send you their 'approved suppliers' list an you can get quotes from each. Though I daresay those guys have probably carved up the prices over a few beers already.

I'd estimate £800-1000.

[im]

V8mate said:

im said:

Simpo Two said:

I fear the Council will send you an estimate in four figures...

Or at the very least the high hundreds.

Some Councils will send you their 'approved suppliers' list an you can get quotes from each. Though I daresay those guys have probably carved up the prices over a few beers already.

I'd estimate £800-1000.

£700 in 2007 - if you live in Morden, Surrey.

[V12Les]

£100/kerb

[wattsm666]

£1,600 in Essex, Epping Forest DC

[Rich135]

You need planning permission to change a garden to a driveway these days - check your local council's website.

[Tuscanless Ali]

im said:

£700 in 2007 - if you live in Morden, Surrey.

Just off the A24?

Sutton Council let my friend pay for her kerb to be dropped only to install a zebra crossing outside her house a few months later making her off street parking unusable! Not a sniff of a refund!!

[im]

Tuscanless Ali said:

im said:

£700 in 2007 - if you live in Morden, Surrey.

Just off the A24?

Love the new PH monika

[sider]

V12Les said:

£100/kerb

That's steep.

I work in Civil Engineering and to supply and fit a kerb costs about £16 tops - and that's using a mechanical kerb lifter. Anything under a run of around 20m (i think!) can be done by hand, thus about £10 tops.

Ok, it may take a bit of travel, but a typical 5 metre crossing of 917mm kerbs is going to cost nearly £600 there. Robbing councils!

Real cost = 6 x £15 (steep at that for such a small size) = £90, call it half a day's labour for 2 blokes = £150.

[Simpo Two]

sider said:

Real cost = 6 x £15 (steep at that for such a small size) = £90, call it half a day's labour for 2 blokes = £150.

My thoughts exactly. No wonder the country is screwed.

[russ_a]

Had ours done last year was around £200ish for two kerbs. The cost goes up if you live on a main road as I think it needs some sort of planing permission.