crossing footpath to access driveway?

Furts

sajjed wrote: »

Furts not sure if I explained my post very well, I had planning/building permission and the garage built and signed off 25+ year ago.

That is fine but you did have a duty to sort out the dropped kerb and footpath at that stage. This was procedure - I recall being involved in this at that time, albeit not for your Local Authority. However, their procedures should have followed national guidedlines at that time. Of course, in those days there was scope and flexibility. Employees of the councils had ways around some rules! All sorts occurred which I will not go into to.

Norman_Castle

it turns out after speaking to neighbours they are only doing the pavement outside the first 20 houses, which don't seem to be in that bad condition to me, but I am no expert

Possibly hidden damage from cars driving across them:)

As above, see if you can get the price reduced as they will be doing a proportion of the work to renew the pavement.

dave030445

I had one done about 1year ago and it was £650 in the surrey area Its not the council that do it but a council approved contractor (in this area).

sajjed

Furts wrote: »

That is fine but you did have a duty to sort out the dropped kerb and footpath at that stage. This was procedure - I recall being involved in this at that time, albeit not for your Local Authority. However, their procedures should have followed national guidedlines at that time. Of course, in those days there was scope and flexibility. Employees of the councils had ways around some rules! All sorts occurred which I will not go into to.

It honestly did not cross my mind at the time, I did not know I should not have been crossing the footpath. Thinking about it now though before planning was granted I feel I should have had it pointed out to me at the time.
houses are all pre-war all with drives garages everyone on the road uses their driveways.
the council employee I spoke to acknowledged that the full road/area are doing the same.Did not lecture me or try to tell me I should not be crossing the path.

sajjed

force_ten wrote: »

I would say if it is a reasonable quote then accept it and pay it and then it will all be official and you will have the correct permission to cross the pavement

there are a couple of problems if you dont want to go ahead and pay for the work on drop kerbs, worst case is they install a 100 mm/ four inch high standard kerb when the redo the pavement and that would make your access difficult

you also say that many slabs are cracked where people have got drop kerbs, do you have any cracked slabs outside your house?

if you do have cracked or damaged slabs and you refuse to pay for drop kerbs, the council could potentially bill you for repairs to the pavement saying the damage was caused by crossing the pavements with a vehicle

I hope it goes well for you on friday and they come up with a reasonable figure for the proposed works

thanks
No cracked broken paving outside my house.
I did ask when I phoned council yesterday if they are planning to raise the kerb they said no.The kerb now is around 1 inch high.

sajjed

missprice wrote: »

I get what your saying,but over time things change. A street over from me when I moved here had all of 4 cars ever parked overnight.
Now its a free for all, and on any given night there will be cars parked anywhere nearby.
Granted they have no drives and its on street only, but still its change.

Plus think of ever selling your house, you will have the proper permission to cross the path, sells better than a house on the same street that does not have the same permission.

doubt there will be a problem parking we all have driveways over 100ft long plus parking at the front of the drive for a few cars.
good point about selling, I have no intention of moving but you never know. But houses seem to sell quickly in the road, with or without drop kerbs.
been driving up and down road today looking at houses that I know have sold in recent times lol

sajjed

dave030445 wrote: »

I had one done about 1year ago and it was £650 in the surrey area Its not the council that do it but a council approved contractor (in this area).

not really sure if it is contractors or local council but it is council employee that is coming out to give me a quote.
Was your £650 bill for them coming out to do your drop kerb only?, or were they doing several in your neighbourhood?

force_ten

sajjed wrote: »

thanks
No cracked broken paving outside my house.
I did ask when I phoned council yesterday if they are planning to raise the kerb they said no.The kerb now is around 1 inch high.

well if it was me and the quote was reasonable then i would still go for the drop kerbs, if you do this then you will have all the bases covered and you can if you ever decide to sell your house legally say it has a private drive/ off street parking

if you are happy to carry on as you have for the past 30 odd years and do nothing then that is up to you and i would very much doubt anybody would advise that as you may have problems if you ever try to sell your property

sajjed

thanks, will see what tomorrow brings.

force_ten

sajjed wrote: »

not really sure if it is contractors or local council but it is council employee that is coming out to give me a quote.
Was your £650 bill for them coming out to do your drop kerb only?, or were they doing several in your neighbourhood?

I have just had mine done in august this year and again in this area it is not the council that do this work anymore

I had to apply to the council for the licence to drop the kerbs and the permission to cross the pavement and then they approved the works i had to find my own contractor to carry out the work from a list of approved contractors that the council sent me it cost me £700.00 and the contractor did mine and my next door neighbour at the same time

you will be in a different position as they are working on your frontage as it is so hopefully their quote will come out cheaper

A few years ago a friend of mine was in the similar situation to you and the council were doing the paths outside his property and he had the kerbs dropped for £250.00 but up to that point had never parked off street as they had four inch kerbs so a bit high to drive over