Dropped kerb pricing

[s--p--o--n--i--x]

Has anyone had a dropped kerb installed? If so how much did it cost?

I'm looking at a 4.5m dropped kerb. The quote I have had seems awfully high.

sPoNiX

[Broadback]

Where I now live, and under a different council previously, only the council permitted themselves to do the work, it was rather expensive, several hundred £, but no choice.

[Colin]

Id love a cheap method .....coucil quoted me between 800 and 1000 squids!

[Mungo "two sheds" Toadfoot]

My local council were doing a "special offer" a while back - they were charging around £250. I suppose the price was so low because they had pre-booked so many to do at one time.

Worth asking your council in case they intend to do something similar.

Si

[s--p--o--n--i--x]

They have quoted me about the same, however Google throws up various people hwo have had it done for £250-£450.

I could get a contractor in to do it but they need to be licenced by the council so would be well aware what the council charge and would quote accordingly!

sPoNiX

[adder1969]

Do you not also need to get planning permission for a dropped curb?

[Andy R]

I had it done the same time as a planned footpath resurface and they only charged £75. Find out from the council when the next planned footpath resuface is and if it's ages in the future get some lorry drivers to park on the path and damage it then complain to the council about the state of the paths.

Rgds

Andy R

[Paul King]

I've recently (this month) had a quote of £661 for 2.7 metres of dropped kerb from my local council. Needless to say, it isn't gonna be done this close to christmas, and the quotation is only valid for 28 days! So, if I want it done, I'll have to go through the whole application/surveying/quotation process again...

[Mungo "two sheds" Toadfoot]

Probably - especially if you're near a corner/junction.

Si

[Owain]

"Mungo "two sheds" Toadfoot" wrote | [e-mail] wrote: | > Do you not also need to get planning permission for a dropped curb? | Probably - especially if you're near a corner/junction.

PP is not needed for the dropped kerb per se. It might be needed, and the consent of the LA as landowner and highway authority would be needed, to create a new vehicular access to your land across the pavement.

Many LAs will do a dropped kerb at a subsidised price if it's to provide access for a wheelchair user.

Owain

[Broadback]

I wonder if this would work. If you already have a gateway onto your property apply for wheelchair access. My neighbour has, and they dropped the curb outside their house and on the pavement opposite. No charge.

[s--p--o--n--i--x]

Presumably someone in the family would need to be a wheelchair user?

[David W.E. Roberts]

My mother-in-law just supplied the pavement resurfacers with loads of tea and biscuits for a few days.

They dropped the kerb for her (at their suggestion) for free.

Doubt the council has even noticed.

Drive had been previously created and accessed over an undropped kerb.

So you could just create your drive and put up with the 'bump' as you go over the kerb then (if you are lucky) it will get dropped next time they resurface the pavement.

Similarly, next door has just had their drive block paved and widened and when the workmen came to do the pavement they just put in a wider dropped kerb.

HTH

Dave R

[dmc]

This is what the previous owners of our house had been doing - a couple of months after we moved in we got a letter from the council telling us to stop or face legal action.

Several others in the street got the same.

When I questioned them for a price I seem to remember 650 quid being suggested (about 6 years ago). Neighbour recently looked into it again and I think he said they now want nearly 1200 quid. This is in folkestone.

Darren - still parking on the street :)

[RichardS]

Leaves yourself somewhat open to being blocked in by a car legitimately parked in the street, though, and without a legit bona fide dropped kerb and access there might not be an awful lot that you can do about it.

All depends upon the particular area, I suppose, it'd be a 100% dead cert to happen round here.

[s--p--o--n--i--x]

That's the problem...I want a dropped kerb because parking spaces are in short supply. An unofficfial droped kerb is 100% likely to get blocked.

[Rick Hughes]

It is whatever the council will charge ... they either insist on them being the supplier, or have an approved contractor who will work off their set fee.

It will also put up the RV of your house.

[Frank Erskine]

4 1/2 m seems an awfully deep drop for a kerb.

Our LA insists on doing any dropped kerbs itself. When done for disabled access, such as street corners, and where a reasonable request is made, this is done FOC.

[nog]

Some years ago, we had ours done for nowt. The whole road (a minor thoroughfare) was re-curbed and re-surfaced so the new kerb was lowered as a matter or course.