Sold House With Driveway Without Drop Kerb

antrobus

TreeLeaf wrote: »

Thank you in advance for your help.

Apply for a dropped kerb
https://www.gov.uk/apply-dropped-kerb

AdrianC

G_M wrote: »

Is there or is there not a driveway? My guess - yes there is.

Debatable...

A tarmac'd front garden with no hedge - yes.
Driveway - not really, since you can't move a vehicle onto it from the road...

ThePants999

iammumtoone wrote: »

The fact you cannot legally put a car on the driveway and this is what most people use them for, does not change the fact there is a driveway.

How is it a driveway if it isn't a way you can drive on? It's just a paved garden.

iammumtoone

ThePants999 wrote: »

How is it a driveway if it isn't a way you can drive on? It's just a paved garden.

A garden has fence/boundary at the end between the pavement and your land. A driveway doesn't it is open.


As far as I was away their is no definition that a driveway has to have vehicle access but happy to be taught otherwise if I am wrong.

AdrianC

A driveway without vehicular access is just a piece of gravel or tarmac.

There's nothing to say a garden _must_ have a boundary, and many don't.

iammumtoone

Driveway -

a road, especially a private one, leading from a street or other thoroughfare to a building, house, garage, etc.


I see what you mean as a road is built for vehicles however you could still drive a vehicle on a driveway with no dropped curb as long as you don't drive over the pavement, so I still don't see how saying a house has a driveway means the curb must be dropped, they are two different things.

AdrianC

Great. You can drive your car around your garden, once you've had it delivered by Chinook.

Soot2006

The house has a driveway, but no access to that driveway. Not uncommon.



(In my neighbourhood many "driveways" don't have legal access, but they're still used on a daily basis and have been for decades. Until someone complains to the council I guess most people get away with it. There are also some pavement curbs with a concrete "ramp" added to the road - unattractive and illegal, but again it seems to depend on where you live as to whether anyone actually cares about it. I should add I live in a pretty nice, well-maintained neighbourhood with a very active residents' association that harrasses mercilessly if you allow so much as one bit od hedging to overhang your garden wall. However, this driveway/access business doesn't seem to bother anyone, probably because we're all happy the cars aren't on the road!)

Margot123

OP, did you not also read the Estate Agent's disclaimers (of which there are usually many)?

The assumption is that the buyer uses all available means to assess whether or not the property is suitable for their needs at the time of purchase.
In this day of the internet, information is easily accessed; there is no excuse really, even if you can't physically inspect a property for some reason.

LandyAndy

iammumtoone wrote: »

A garden has fence/boundary at the end between the pavement and your land. A driveway doesn't it is open.


As far as I was away their is no definition that a driveway has to have vehicle access but happy to be taught otherwise if I am wrong.

A previous house of mine, and all the houses on the entire estate, had completely open frontages on to the pavement for both the drives and the front lawns and with no fences between the front gardens of the properties. See 'Turnberry Drive, Wilmslow' on streetview.