Soldato
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My local council doesn't even offer to do it. It's £114 for application + inspection etc. then just says to contact an approved contractor.
Parking Issue
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Hmm, you might be okay then.
I think the councils have realised what a moneyspinner it is. Mine has their road-repair teams putting them in when they have no other work to do. With parking pressure rising and multiple car households all over the place, everyone is grabbing a drive and the councils are cashing in using their spare manpower.
We did ours because we were fed up of parking hassle with our old small drive - often from other neighbours who have massive drives, but still not enough space to store their multiple cars, or they are parking on the roads to hold places rather than park over their drives where they park their other cars.
The pavement was the final stage of a massive renovation project by the council of all the social housing stock (Rendering on outside, new plumbing)
We had a driveway built (privately as ours is not council) during these works.
I can only assume the inspector wasn't that thorough just to get through it, saw our drive and kerb and signed it off as part of the works.
I agree. It's a bit different paying for a drop curve to allow vehicle access for a driveway, but unless you've got a buggy/wheelchair there's really much utility to be gained from it in this scenario. I don't think I'd be happy paying more than few hundred.
I'm not suggesting this, but hypothetically - if you had the means to acquire a dropped kerb and the means to discretely replace the kerb yourself - what would happen? Does the council seriously keep records of where dropped kerbs have been installed, and if yours isn't on the list then it gets ripped out? What about double yellow lines? I've thought similar about those. I'd love a ~10ft double yellow line down the side of my house. If I was somehow able to paint a decent straight line with genuine road paint in the dead of night, who's to say what was and wasn't there previously?
Again I'm not suggesting this. But I can appreciate the OP's annoyance, my mind is just wandering on a lazy afternoon at work
Again I'm not suggesting this. But I can appreciate the OP's annoyance, my mind is just wandering on a lazy afternoon at work
I'm not suggesting this, but hypothetically - if you had the means to acquire a dropped kerb and the means to discretely replace the kerb yourself - what would happen? Does the council seriously keep records of where dropped kerbs have been installed, and if yours isn't on the list then it gets ripped out? What about double yellow lines? I've thought similar about those. I'd love a ~10ft double yellow line down the side of my house. If I was somehow able to paint a decent straight line with genuine road paint in the dead of night, who's to say what was and wasn't there previously?
Again I'm not suggesting this. But I can appreciate the OP's annoyance, my mind is just wandering on a lazy afternoon at work
Of course the council (or responsible party for the road) keeps records on where dropped kerbs are, same goes for yellow lines and everything else...
So you have to walk on your grass to get inside your house? I’d be walking on his grass, I would also by a moped or a bike and ride it though their grass. Moped the better option Because it makes a mess of their lawn, but then again with a bike you can accidentally on pourpose fall off and scratch their car. Every were you go you’ll always find one ar** hole.
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Maybe there was a car in the way
.So you're telling me the council have a record of every single dropped kerb, and every yellow line painted on the road? dot dot dot (I don't believe you, council's don't know what day it is).
Having access to my local council's drawings I can confirm they do.
My council keep records. A few years ago like one of the posters above the council redid the paving on our road together with every bodies dropped kerbs. When they did mine it was around 1.5m shorter and shifted over to the right of my house. I complained and a guy came out inspected the old plans and then the pictures that were taken before the work started, agreed and had it moved and enlarged. He even commented that my dropped kerb was slightly shorter than I had originally paid for so added another foot to it.
As said above they'll have them.
Yellow lines IIRC need the paperwork to be correct to be enforceable, so that's logged (and presumably corrected if anyone challenges them
), and things like dropped kerbs will be logged because the council needs to know what they're responsible for and how they relate to things like street lighting and utilities.I suspect 20 years ago it wouldn't have been quite so well documented (or at least not as easily checked), but these days you can be fairly sure most/everything is on computer, and what isn't is getting added as it's discovered.
We had to contact the council about a wall that had fallen down, after we'd pointed out it was theirs and given them the land registry references showing where it was and that no one else owned the land they repaired it, and as a side effect the hedge on that bit of land is now (after 40 years) routinely getting dealt with at the same time as other bushes that they're responsible for
(previously it tended to get missed and we had to deal with it as it was next to our garden).My guess is that that little bit of land hadn't been on their computer as theirs as it probably hadn't had any query for 20 odd years
Can be done by a single guy but most places have a no lone working policy. Drops on to grass so very little to dig out even by hand, never mind a mini digger. We pay about £150 for a guy per 8 hour day. Materials you're talking £100 tops.
Holy thread revival!
So, the issue with parking settled as the next door neighbors moved. The new neighbors, we explained the situation and have been fantastic. We both share the space when a visitor comes and we both leave it free as needed. We both also both make an effort to never park our own cars there.
However, half the street including people living 200+ yards away have seen this as an opportunity! oh look a space. We had my wife's grandmother over today (she uses a walking frame) we opened the door and was greeted by this, just some random deciding to leave their car there, probably over the weekend.
From the the horizontal flag stone, the highway agency actually own that piece of grass and land. I think i explain this further in my original post with diagrams. My wife is also 7 months pregnant, so prams and all that are now going be in the not so distant future.
I decided to call the council today and complain about the situation. Initially, they palmed me off, As above as soon as mentioned the issue with a family member with disabled access the tone changed. They spoke with the highway agency and transferred me directly. They are coming out on Tuesday to review the situation.
Here is another example, people now think they can fit' two cars across the verge.
It's not a huge problem, but do you think the highway agency would just say, surely people can walk on a bit of grass? It's sounds kind of trivial but i don't really want to open my door to be walking around a car or struggling with a pram or helping an 80 year old women across wet grass when she should be able to have the car pull right up to door and be helped in?
So, the issue with parking settled as the next door neighbors moved. The new neighbors, we explained the situation and have been fantastic. We both share the space when a visitor comes and we both leave it free as needed. We both also both make an effort to never park our own cars there.
However, half the street including people living 200+ yards away have seen this as an opportunity! oh look a space. We had my wife's grandmother over today (she uses a walking frame) we opened the door and was greeted by this, just some random deciding to leave their car there, probably over the weekend.
From the the horizontal flag stone, the highway agency actually own that piece of grass and land. I think i explain this further in my original post with diagrams. My wife is also 7 months pregnant, so prams and all that are now going be in the not so distant future.
I decided to call the council today and complain about the situation. Initially, they palmed me off, As above as soon as mentioned the issue with a family member with disabled access the tone changed. They spoke with the highway agency and transferred me directly. They are coming out on Tuesday to review the situation.
Here is another example, people now think they can fit' two cars across the verge.
It's not a huge problem, but do you think the highway agency would just say, surely people can walk on a bit of grass? It's sounds kind of trivial but i don't really want to open my door to be walking around a car or struggling with a pram or helping an 80 year old women across wet grass when she should be able to have the car pull right up to door and be helped in?
I think I may have mentioned this early, but a drop kerb to the path would technically stop parking there. With a drop kerb I think you can also get those lines to span it to show where you're not allowed to block e.g. |------|
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That looks like a bit of a **** up when the contractors built the place to be honest. Either the pavement or your path has been put in wrong.