Outside my new property my driveway is 50% high kerb and 50% lowered. Unfortunately the layout is like this...
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Whereby the raised kerb is basically occupying the middle area of the driveway. I thought this wasn't an issue at first, however, managed to thoroughly scuff the underside of my car when reversing off the drive (front of car landed on the kerb as suspension levelled off).
Quite irate I expected the council to fix this free of charge (Naive here) and looked into the kerb issue.
It appears that as a basic price, it is £140 application/planning and £1000 drop-kerb manual work.
As an extra headache, in front of the raised kerb on the pavement between my driveway and the road is a BT access panel which would appear to be higher than the slope (so would need additional recessing).
This comes back with a total cost of £140 application/planning and £3000 for the manual works.
Is there any other way to get this done?! I've received damage to my vehicle from the kerb, so isn't this classed as an accident on the public highway (just like pothole damage?)
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Whereby the raised kerb is basically occupying the middle area of the driveway. I thought this wasn't an issue at first, however, managed to thoroughly scuff the underside of my car when reversing off the drive (front of car landed on the kerb as suspension levelled off).
Quite irate I expected the council to fix this free of charge (Naive here) and looked into the kerb issue.
It appears that as a basic price, it is £140 application/planning and £1000 drop-kerb manual work.
As an extra headache, in front of the raised kerb on the pavement between my driveway and the road is a BT access panel which would appear to be higher than the slope (so would need additional recessing).
This comes back with a total cost of £140 application/planning and £3000 for the manual works.
Is there any other way to get this done?! I've received damage to my vehicle from the kerb, so isn't this classed as an accident on the public highway (just like pothole damage?)