Driveway problem

susi

The drive to my house is on quite a steep decline, never really been a problem until the council decided to renew the pavement all the way down our street a couple of years ago. It looked all nice and tidy but when it came to getting my car in the drive......it stuck at the top where the pavement meets my drive. I got the workmen to come back and they said they would try and sort it for me. They dug it allup and relaid it, meanwile I went and put some air in my tyres just in case they were a bit low and that was part to blame, came home and managed to get in the drive ok....problem solved i thought. Every now and then when my tyres were getting a little low it would scrape as I brought it in, would top the tyres up and all was well though so didnt think much about it............until yesterday. I have bought a new car (well new to me) brought it home went to bring it into the drive and cant get it down, its really scraping, Im gutted!!!! Is it my responsibility to get the drive done or is it down to the council??? We have lived here for almost 30 years, had several different cars and never had a problem before they changed the pavement????? I hate leaving my car on the front grrrrrrrr!!!!!

susi

Anyone?????:)

eco-friendly_2

Only me

I assume the new pavement is now higher than your drive, the only way is to raise the drive to compensate. The council won't pay for it.

ormus

or sell the lotus, and buy a land rover.

maninthestreet

A picture of two of the drive/pavement may help us to advise you.

ic

Talk to the council. I had my driveway relaid, and its now about 3 inches higher than the footpath. The council have come and look and have said that as the path itself is in a poor state, they're happy to relay it and also raise it to meet my driveway. Seeing as they've impeded your access to your property, they should sort it out. Question is, if your driveway is particularly steep, would you have had a problem with the old footpath had you bought the new car anyway? I presume the car is longer?

Jake'sGran

I agree with the last post. Surely the Council
must bear responsibility. You should expect to be in the same position as you were before they did the pavement i.e. able to get your car in comfortably without scraping. How can you be expected to pay for raising the drive? Write to the top man. His name should be easy to find.

laurz121

I'm not sure the council are to blame if they sorted it out to the OPs satisfaction and they have now bought a new car that doesn't fit down their drive. Who is to say that this new car would definitely have fitted before? We can assume it would have but we can't know.

I know the OP says that their older cars fitted on their drive before but maybe those older cars would fit on the drive now as well, it may just be that newer cars are getting lower (a trend i've noticed) which is causing the problem.

As others have said a photo or two could really help to visualise the problem

And a potential solution could be to buy higher profile tyres for your car which would raise it up slightly

LandyAndy

I would have thought that it was the council's responsibility that work it did to the highway did not prevent residents from accessing their driveways with standard production vehicles.