Pedestrian Dropped kerb for crossing, do we have permission to use for driveway

roni87

Davesnave said:

The pavement hasn't been reinforced to accept vehicle weights and you can see how this has affected the crossing place paving.

Tricky! Looking at the location, it's not the sort of place Highways normally allow formal dropped kerbs to be.

It is a tricky! Apparently the council said they did it

davidmcn

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3315980/Council-workers-block-family-s-driveway-BOLLARDS-cars-parked-it.html

is an example of what could happen - just because the council don't actively tell you to undo the driveway doesn't mean you'll have the right to continue to drive across the pavement.

DayDreamerandGeneralWaster

That is clearly not there for a vehicle to cross. They have taken advantage of it. Complete !!!!!! take. It could be a danger to pedestrians to cross that. If you hit a small child by accident you would be up !!!!!! creek.

roni87

DayDreamerandGeneralWaster said:

That is clearly not there for a vehicle to cross. They have taken advantage of it. Complete !!!!!! take. It could be a danger to pedestrians to cross that. If you hit a small child by accident you would be up !!!!!! creek.

The kerb is dropped all the way up to the grid- which is the post to the drive- I have queried it with the council and they said they dropped it, and access has been given to all drives on that road.

It’s just so strange because it has never come up in the past but our solicitors are pushing for something lawful to written 

NameUnavailable

I think that kerb is dropped purely for the benfit of pedestrians, people with prams, mobility scooters, wheelchair users etc. Your solicitor is quite right to query it. Presumably if it is also there for access to the drive, someone from the council can confirm that in writing?

sheramber

But is the drive official. I wouldn't have thought a drive so close to a corner would be given permission.

mistrihelen

If you are happy to accept that it might disappear one day (which will affect the value), then you don't need to listen to the solicitor. If it was the house of your dreams you could do that.

But if you would rely on that drive, I'd be a little nervous in that position. They would never agree to a proper dropped access for a car there. 

Barny1979

sheramber said:

But is the drive official. I wouldn't have thought a drive so close to a corner would be given permission.

A drive doesn't need permission typically, it's just the access across the highway to it that does.

NameUnavailable

sheramber said:

But is the drive official. I wouldn't have thought a drive so close to a corner would be given permission.

My guess is that a previous owner simply paved their garden and removed some of the wall - it's not technically a drive IMHO.

As others have said, it seems highly unlikely that the council would agree to make a driveway access at that point, being on a junction (and a pedestrian crossing point).

SpiderLegs

mistrihelen said:

If you are happy to accept that it might disappear one day (which will affect the value), then you don't need to listen to the solicitor. If it was the house of your dreams you could do that.

But if you would rely on that drive, I'd be a little nervous in that position. They would never agree to a proper dropped access for a car there. 

Yep I agree with this.
One day the OP might wake up to find the council have installed some nice safety barriers and that there is knack all they can do about it.