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

roni87

It was a shop front at one point and apparently it was where cars use to pull up to go to the shop 🤷‍♀️ Whether that was lawful or not I do not know. 

Thanks for all your comments! 

I am currently awaiting the councils reply in regards to written lawful use of this dropped kerb, but as a back up getting mortgage valuer to re-evaluate house evaluation with potentially no front driveway. 

Just hope it moves quickly, want to be in before Xmas 🙈🤞

unforeseen

Just hope it moves quickly, want to be in before Xmas 🙈🤞

I admire your optimism

Davesnave

Remember there are two council bodies which are involved here: the part that deals with the practical issues like permissions and contractors, and Highways which is concerned with the roads and safety. In my area, Highways is county-wide and thus not local. My local council would have to consult Highways before giving the go ahead to a new dropped kerb, so I think yours will have to do that before formally recognising a long-used access like this.

Aranyani

I'd buy a different house if I were you, the location of that one looks terrible, right on the corner, difficult/no car access, not much separation from the street which seems like it might be quite busy.

Davesnave

Aranyani said:

I'd buy a different house if I were you, the location of that one looks terrible, right on the corner, difficult/no car access, not much separation from the street which seems like it might be quite busy.

You might buy a different house, but that's you, and irrelevant.

Posts which question the basic observational skills of the OP are unlikely to find favour with them. Do you really suppose they don't know all that? It's rather like saying to someone "Did you not notice your wife is at least a size 20?"

(The classic reply is of course, "Yes, but I found she was a lot more fun in bed than yours!")

Many factors go to make up our choices

frogglet

Was it a house which was turned into a shop then back to a house?
If so what do the original plans show? Is it similar to next door and how to they access their drive?

Aranyani

Davesnave said:

Aranyani said:

I'd buy a different house if I were you, the location of that one looks terrible, right on the corner, difficult/no car access, not much separation from the street which seems like it might be quite busy.

You might buy a different house, but that's you, and irrelevant.

Posts which question the basic observational skills of the OP are unlikely to find favour with them. Do you really suppose they don't know all that? It's rather like saying to someone "Did you not notice your wife is at least a size 20?"

(The classic reply is of course, "Yes, but I found she was a lot more fun in bed than yours!")

Many factors go to make up our choices

But the vehicle access issue is why they've posted?  Looking at that picture it is going to be a nightmare, and it doesn't seem like a house that is worth it.  Yes that's my opinion, but people post here to get opinions, the OP is entirely free to ignore mine if they wish, as are you.

Barny1979

Davesnave said:

Remember there are two council bodies which are involved here: the part that deals with the practical issues like permissions and contractors, and Highways which is concerned with the roads and safety. In my area, Highways is county-wide and thus not local. My local council would have to consult Highways before giving the go ahead to a new dropped kerb, so I think yours will have to do that before formally recognising a long-used access like this.

Depends if two--tier or unitary, though even in a unitary, planning and highways don't sing from the same hymn sheet.

Davesnave

Aranyani said:

Davesnave said:

Aranyani said:

I'd buy a different house if I were you, the location of that one looks terrible, right on the corner, difficult/no car access, not much separation from the street which seems like it might be quite busy.

You might buy a different house, but that's you, and irrelevant.

Posts which question the basic observational skills of the OP are unlikely to find favour with them. Do you really suppose they don't know all that? It's rather like saying to someone "Did you not notice your wife is at least a size 20?"

(The classic reply is of course, "Yes, but I found she was a lot more fun in bed than yours!")

Many factors go to make up our choices

But the vehicle access issue is why they've posted?

Indeed, and if you'd confined yourself to that I'd not have commented.

roni87

Aranyani said:

I'd buy a different house if I were you, the location of that one looks terrible, right on the corner, difficult/no car access, not much separation from the street which seems like it might be quite busy.

That’s on the side of the house. The front is on the other road. 

It does have another access point for a drive but we are wanting to use it to extend our garden. So if we don’t have the side drive (in discussion) we would ultimately not have any driveway. There is plenty of road parking but not really what we want to do.