Drop kerb Derbyshire

cyclonebri1

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Let's call this a Friday afternoon rant with a serious question to follow.

Neighbours are doing some work, and at some point they plan to move their dropped kerb, (shared drive) to provide an independent access.

I thought this would be a good time to alter my access.
We have an existing double drive but only a single drive drop, the previous owners widened there frontage after they had a car written off reversing off the drive, The kerb was never dropped to suit so bumping up/off the drive is inevitable at times.

Googled the issue to get an idea of the costs, some great detail from several Northern councils.
I don't need a new access it's simply a 2 kerb drop over a pavement of less than 2 metres width, that's a cost of under £400 if you live a bit further North than I do.

What do Derbys want? Min £1000, can't give an estimate simply have to send money and wait.

Existing drive just needs widening, other councils reduce by up to 50% for this, Derbys, min £1000


Cheaper to move.

End result, it won't happen, I can get the tracking done a fair few times for that cost

So, the serious question, anyone else from around me dealt with them and what did it actually cost????

Furts

You need a better brain than mine for the answer. But the following might ease your Friday rant!

If you go back to the Thatcher era it was decided to open up much council contracting work to the private sector. The exception was any work costing less than £1000. This was the council's responsibility - perhaps because contractors could not be bothered with small jobs ,or perhaps as a sop to the unions.

All drop kerb applications suddenly increased to £995 and remained, as before,the sole domain of the council. A monopoly market and a licence to print money!

This was my experience working for...best not say.

Hope this helps...well not directly!

timjim

4 or 5 years ago when we lived in Ripley Derbyshire we had our kerbs dropped by a private contractor and the cost was only £400.

Try
Joe Brown Contractors Ltd
Alfreton
01773 318146

Other than them doing the work for us I have no relationship with this company

Chopper_Read

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Let's call this a Friday afternoon rant with a serious question to follow.

Neighbours are doing some work, and at some point they plan to move their dropped kerb, (shared drive) to provide an independent access.

I thought this would be a good time to alter my access.
We have an existing double drive but only a single drive drop, the previous owners widened there frontage after they had a car written off reversing off the drive, The kerb was never dropped to suit so bumping up/off the drive is inevitable at times.

Googled the issue to get an idea of the costs, some great detail from several Northern councils.
I don't need a new access it's simply a 2 kerb drop over a pavement of less than 2 metres width, that's a cost of under £400 if you live a bit further North than I do.

What do Derbys want? Min £1000, can't give an estimate simply have to send money and wait.

Existing drive just needs widening, other councils reduce by up to 50% for this, Derbys, min £1000


Cheaper to move.

End result, it won't happen, I can get the tracking done a fair few times for that cost

So, the serious question, anyone else from around me dealt with them and what did it actually cost????

I'd like to see you move for lless than a grand

cyclonebri1

Chopper_Read wrote: »

I'd like to see you move for lless than a grand

Figure of speech old chap, yes an exaggeration, but not by much:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

The real issue is the difference from my area to say Northumbria, which I picked on as the only area that seems to make the costs available online without applying for permission at cost.

keystone

My council charges £900 AIUI. Theres a non-refundable £ 35 fee to apply too.

Cheers

cyclonebri1

keystone wrote: »

My council charges £900 AIUI. Theres a non-refundable £ 35 fee to apply too.

Cheers

I would have said :eek::eek::eek:, but after today the N v S divide seems to have moved further North

keystone

See - some things are cheaper down here.

Cheers

tony6403

The Council cannot compel you to use their workers to do this.
I arranged a similar job in Derbyshire - the Council never have inspected it. There were no fees paid to the Council.
Extract from their website
Can I get my own contractor to construct a vehicle crossing?

Yes, we do allow private contractors to construct vehicular accesses. However, we have a responsibility to manage all work on the local highway network and require contractors to have certain personnel to be qualified under the New Roads and Street Works Act accreditation scheme.
The contractor should also carry public liability insurance to a minimum of £5 million.
It is in your interests to ensure that any contractor working for you conforms to these minimum standards as the cost of claims through accidents or utility apparatus damage can be very high and will be passed on to you for settlement.
If the works are undertaken by a private contractor then these works must be guaranteed for two years.
Alternatively you can ask the us to undertake the work in which case we bear all the risks.

cyclonebri1

Cheers Tony,
Yes I had seen that, I trawled through everything on their (our) website, problem was nowhere did it state the fees charged unlike this one here.


http://www.tameside.gov.uk/kerbdropping#cost

The annoying bit is that what I'm wanting would cost £290-90 under that council, not £1000



Derbyshire still insisted it was the same charge for a small extension to the drop as it was for a complete new one, not even a mention of the kerb width like above.

The full picture is that the house next door has recently changed hands and they are moving theirs, I wrongly assumed that there may be a reduction based on them both being done at the same time, wrong again.

The good news is that the father of the girl next door has recently retired from DCC and is working for her along with a few road digging mates, I'm sure we can come to some arrangements, but I was just trying to get the full cost as an idea of what would be fair.