Sold House With Driveway Without Drop Kerb

elsien

Really hoping the OP comes back to explain in a little more detail but I suspect I'm likely to be disappointed.

Cakeguts

I personally would probably call what this house has as off street parking not a driveway. There are houses near us that have offstreet parking on what used to be the front garden. Driveways tend to go down the side of the house or up the side and round to the front leaving some garden. Offstreet parking is the problem because some councils near us will not allow a dropped kerb if the distance from the house to the pavement is too short. Cars have got bigger and they don't want them overhanging the pavement.

Margot123

As the OP's question was "how I can claim back the cost of installing a drop kerb/vehicle crossover?", I imagine they have had a shock at how much this will cost.

Hopefully they haven't had a ticket for driving over the kerb, but we might never know.

davidmcn

Margot123 wrote: »

As the OP's question was "how I can claim back the cost of installing a drop kerb/vehicle crossover?", I imagine they have had a shock at how much this will cost.

The money-saving answer is of course "don't bother, the previous owners never did". :money:

Smodlet

Dizzy_Ditzy wrote: »

There's a house across the road from me that's just been sold with a driveway but no dropped kerb. It's a double driveway and there is a bloody lamp post in the middle of it :eek:

Piccies, please!

AdrianC wrote: »

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

AdrianC, thank you. I almost cried with laughter. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: PIMP.

parkrunner

Round my way there are plenty of driveways without dropped kerbs. The residents simply use kerb ramps to overcome the problem. I've never seen anyone blocking the driveways even though legally they can. Just a chance you take I suppose.

iammumtoone

AdrianC wrote: »

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

Well exactly, it is still a driveway therefore not missed sold like the OP is trying to claim. Morally miss sold yes, but it needs to be legally miss sold before the OP can claim costs like they are wanting to.



I suspect as Cakeguts points out what it probably is, is off street parking. Proper driveways would probably be built along with the house.


I still don't think there is any comeback on the estate agent as its the buyers responsibility to check.

Smodlet

Semantics gone mad, imho. If you cannot legally drive on to it, how can it be a driveway/drive/parking or anything else implying a vehicle can access it without the Chinook option? It probably should be stated that other makes of helicopter are available.

z1a

Smodlet wrote: »

Semantics gone mad, imho. If you cannot legally drive on to it, how can it be a driveway/drive/parking or anything else implying a vehicle can access it without the Chinook option? It probably should be stated that other makes of helicopter are available.

Chinook isn't a make, it's a model - made by Boeing.

Smodlet

Make, model, again with the semantics. It's a chopper; !!!!!! diff so long as it could transfer a car from the road to a paved front garden without touching the pavement, fgs? A JCB would do as well.