Help With Dropped Curb Application

ma9gm

Hi,


I'm really sorry if this is a stupid question, or is in the wrong place. We would like to put a drive at the front of our house. Currently it's just grass. There isn't any walls or hedges in the way! Both next doors have a drive.


When I apply to the council to get the curb dropped, will I have to use the same workman to "transform" my front lawn into a drive? Or do I need to get someone else in to do that? I was wondering if all the council people do is drop the curb, and I need to sort someone else out to do the drive bit, or if they have to do everything?


Thank you


Glen

maninthestreet

The council won't lay your drive for, but you may need planning permission to convert your front lawn to hard standing.

force_ten

It depends how your council works and only they will be able to tell you that

I applied to our local council for permission to drop the kerb and it cost £80.00 our local council do not do this type of work in house anymore and when the application was approved it had a list of council approved contractors that you could contact to carry out the work for you

mine was quoted at £800.00 for two droppers and and four dropped kerbs and the pavement re tarmaced, i asked the same contractor to do the drive as well but he was happy to do just the kerbs and by doing that the contractor did all the work on the drive before ripping up the old pavement so heavy machinery did not need to run over newly laid tarmac on the pavement

as for the driveway surface we were told the drive had to meet the SUDS (sustainable urban drainage system) we went for a marshalls priora block drive but you could have part gravel part hardstanding or a water permeable tarmac

also you may be allowed non permeable surface with the water directed into a soakaway

ma9gm

force_ten wrote: »

It depends how your council works and only they will be able to tell you that

I applied to our local council for permission to drop the kerb and it cost £80.00 our local council do not do this type of work in house anymore and when the application was approved it had a list of council approved contractors that you could contact to carry out the work for you

mine was quoted at £800.00 for two droppers and and four dropped kerbs and the pavement re tarmaced, i asked the same contractor to do the drive as well but he was happy to do just the kerbs and by doing that the contractor did all the work on the drive before ripping up the old pavement so heavy machinery did not need to run over newly laid tarmac on the pavement

as for the driveway surface we were told the drive had to meet the SUDS (sustainable urban drainage system) we went for a marshalls priora block drive but you could have part gravel part hardstanding or a water permeable tarmac

also you may be allowed non permeable surface with the water directed into a soakaway

Hi That is really helpful.

It'll give me some idea of what's going on. Hopefully it's a fairly easy process!

Thank you

Glen

keith969

ma9gm wrote: »

Hi,


I'm really sorry if this is a stupid question, or is in the wrong place. We would like to put a drive at the front of our house. Currently it's just grass. There isn't any walls or hedges in the way! Both next doors have a drive.


When I apply to the council to get the curb dropped, will I have to use the same workman to "transform" my front lawn into a drive? Or do I need to get someone else in to do that? I was wondering if all the council people do is drop the curb, and I need to sort someone else out to do the drive bit, or if they have to do everything?


Thank you


Glen

Have you got planning permission from the council yet? I applied to drop the kerb for existing access (which had been granted previously) but still had to apply for the council's 'opinion' as to whether a drop kerb was going to need separate permission, and that 'opinion' cost £45. Then, an application to the highways dept. for permission for the drop kerb, that was £100 a month ago. I'm still waiting to hear from them. Finally will need a contractor approved by the council to do the work - in my case no drive laying required, you can get your own contractor in for that but there will be conditions e.g drainage or a surface to separate a gravel drive from pavement etc. Good luck!

force_ten

I did not require planning permission to do mine

our council stated that planning permission was required where the access was entering a road of class C and above so class A,B, or C roads all require planning permission

my access is on to a residential cul d sac which is unclassified so that was the first hurdle cleared, if your driveway is entering a busy A road then things will be a lot more difficult

all i needed was a Dropped kerb (vehicle access) licence which was supplied within about four weeks and then the contractor gave a notice of opening three weeks prior to starting and have to give a duration of works so the the council could check if sufficient roadworks garding was being provided, then when works were competed we sent in notice that works were closed so they could check the quality of reinstatement

google ?????? county council dropped kerb application to see what info they have available online for your area

keith969

force_ten wrote: »

I did not require planning permission to do mine

our council stated that planning permission was required where the access was entering a road of class C and above so class A,B, or C roads all require planning permission

I guess it depends on the council. When I first talked to the highways people they told me I needed to verify if planning permission was required, regardless of the road type.