Applying for a drop kerb

mac-n-me

My neighbour and I did ours at the same time and the cost between us was £1200. This was about 5 years ago. Annoyingly about a year after we had it done everyone in the street got a letter from the council saying if anyone wanted their kerb dropped they would do it for £200 as they were doing some maintenance work on the street.

darkcloudi

Just to note I believe its the Highways Act that if you don't have dropped kerbs you must not drive over the footway as the reason for me getting the kerb done was a letter was set to me by the council - they can put bollards in front of your home. to prevent access.

Heres the news: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-524838/Cars-trapped-illegal-driveways-council-fits-bollards-middle-night.html

Tixy

I had mine done a couple of years ago. You have to apply for planning permission from the council. They will come and look at it and if they give consent will send you a quote. It does depend on how many kerb stones you want dropping as mine was a cost per kerb edge piece. I extended my single to double and paid around £450 - I think this was for 5 kerb edges. They said it could have cost twice as much if there were pipes underneath but luckily for me there wasn't.

The lampost will be an issue - it may stop you getting planning permission or if you do get it I would expect the cost will be significant.

Depending on the shape and depth of where you want to park the second car maybe you could only have half a car width dropped and park both cars at angles - would this mean the lampost wouldn't need moving?

BargainGalore

You do realise you can be in trouble for using blocks as it can be dangerous to other roads users, council have been known to confiscate them and warn residents, they did in my home town

caljoemor wrote: »

Anyway we now have 2 wooden blocks and they work fine and are a hell of a lot cheaper.

Good luck and I hope you get a reasonable quote.

caljoemor

Yes I only get them out when I need to use them and then I put them away, we do have a single dropped kerb so I can use that to get on at an angle but when my OH parks first I have to use the blocks.

I don't leave them in the road.

clareyocs

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/HomeAndCommunity/WhereYouLive/StreetsParkingCleaningAndLighting/DG_10026223

also with regards to the wooden blocks.....

taken from a council website
I don't have a dropped kerb for my access!
If you do not have dropped kerbs, you must not drive over the footway. If you do so, you are breaking the law. We could take enforcement action to prevent such usage, if necessary. You may also be liable for any damage to the surface of the footway caused by your vehicle. You may have to defend yourself against a claim should someone have an accident caused by any damage resulting from your unauthorised usage, and be faced with a bill for the repair of any sub-surface services that become damaged as a result of such usage.

Swipe

You only need planning permission if your house is on a classified road i.e. an A or B road. Mine cost around £400 for 3 kerb stones and 2 tapers.

Midnight_Cowboy_2

Every council has different prices and rules. I had a dropped kerb last year, which was priced at around £700+VAT. That was for a 7 stone wide kerb, so about £100 per kerbstone. Our local council had a bit of a scam going too: you can either get them to do the work, or use an approved contractor. But the contractor has to pay the council £250 for the privilege of doing the work, ie. they have to beat the councils price by £250 to make it worthwhile. Needless to say, the contractors quotes were more than councils to compensate for this.