Recently moved into house, dropped kerb application refused. What can I do?

elverson

Would your potential dropped kerb result in the removal of an existing on-street parking space? If so this could present its own issues.

eddddy

D6TMC wrote: »

I'm going to appeal as all of my neighbors have dropped kerbs, I have the deepest drive out the lot, 5 doors up the road the rear end of cars partially block the foot path.

Maybe be a little careful. Supporting your appeal by informing the council that one of your neighbours is blocking the footpath with their parking, might result in the council giving that neighbour some grief.

It may make you a little unpopular.

moneyistooshorttomention

mattyprice4004 wrote: »

While I can understand it's frustrating, I'm glad councils are clamping down on this.
The amount of tiny driveways around here with a stupid Audi Q7 / Range Rover / some long Mercedes blocking half of the pavement is ridiculous.

I can only agree.

I shall be amending my garden when I can afford it and (though I'm not a car-owner) had worked out on my plans that I will have to allow around 4.6 metres length for my visitors to park in.

I can quite see that some vehicles need that length of space in order for their vehicles not to overlap onto the pavement - I'm forcibly reminded every time the back of a vehicle is poking out onto the pavement that I am walking along and I belong on that pavement (as a pedestrian) and they don't (as a vehicle)....and I'm having to walk around the wrong-doer because of it. At least I am physically capable of walking round the wrong-doer vehicle - others are in wheelchairs or pushing prams or struggling to walk due to health concerns or blind and can't even see a vehicle is in their way on "their" pavement.

lincroft1710

There is a way round this, but it may not accord with council regulations and may not be economically or physically viable, would a sloping drive be permissible? If you remember geometry the base of a right angle triangle is shorter than the hypotenuse, so it would not have to be too much of a slope to achieve the right length

paddycharlie

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5685530


Just because other neighbours have dropped kerbs with smaller 'drives' doesn't mean they will get away with parking with the vehicle over the public footpath. All it would take is some complaints and your car could be ticketed by the council even if you do have a dropped kerb already

moneyistooshorttomention

paddycharlie wrote: »

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5685530


Just because other neighbours have dropped kerbs with smaller 'drives' doesn't mean they will get away with parking with the vehicle over the public footpath. All it would take is some complaints and your car could be ticketed by the council even if you do have a dropped kerb already

Valid point:T. I'd forgotten that I did exactly that (ie reported them) about a repeat offender that was on our pavement. I guess something has been done about them - as they arent doing it any longer.

EachPenny

lincroft1710 wrote: »

There is a way round this, but it may not accord with council regulations and may not be economically or physically viable, would a sloping drive be permissible? If you remember geometry the base of a right angle triangle is shorter than the hypotenuse, so it would not have to be too much of a slope to achieve the right length

OP has 4.6m, the council want 4.8m. My maths says that requires a vertical fall of nearly 1.4m :eek:

Unless the existing ground levels really help you that is quite a hole to dig in your front garden, with the issue of drainage also to be resolved, even assuming the council would accept a slope-length drive to meet their criteria.

You also have to consider the costs of making a 1.4m deep hole right next to the house foundations - and the likely impact that might have on the value of the house. It is likely to be cheaper to just move house.

unforeseen

Also council would look very closely at it considering that they have rejected it once already

lincroft1710

EachPenny wrote: »

OP has 4.6m, the council want 4.8m. My maths says that requires a vertical fall of nearly 1.4m :eek:

Agreed it won't work.

G_M

EachPenny wrote: »

OP has 4.6m, the council want 4.8m. My maths says that requires a vertical fall of nearly 1.4m :eek:

Unless the existing ground levels really help you that is quite a hole to dig in your front garden, with the issue of drainage also to be resolved, even assuming the council would accept a slope-length drive to meet their criteria.

You also have to consider the costs of making a 1.4m deep hole right next to the house foundations - and the likely impact that might have on the value of the house. It is likely to be cheaper to just move house.

I think you're approaching this wrong.

I'll accept your maths (as eating dinner is more important to me than checking it), but you're wrong about the hole and the drainage.

The obvious solution is to build an uphill slope.