New driveway.

[Beezerk]

assuming that you have footway adjoining your existing crossover, you'll be looking for something like this on your local council website;

https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/roads-a...-licences/vehicle-crossovers-or-dropped-kerbs

In layman's terms, you won't be allowed near doing it (nor do you want to) because of the possibility of damage to services in the footway. The council will need to approve the works & the contractors.

Aaah thanks for that, I'd not considered it from that perspective. I imagined I'd just be cutting down a couple of metres of my hedge to make the entrance wider, I never thought about the fact I'd also be using another couple of metres of pavement to drive over.
Got a guy coming over tomorrow tea time to have a look, hopefully he can advise me ?

 

[Blue in Munich]

Aaah thanks for that, I'd not considered it from that perspective. I imagined I'd just be cutting down a couple of metres of my hedge to make the entrance wider, I never thought about the fact I'd also be using another couple of metres of pavement to drive over.
Got a guy coming over tomorrow tea time to have a look, hopefully he can advise me ?

I'm not often useful, bookmark the post!

 

[clubchamp98]

Thanks for the replies, I've done a bit of reading, maybe a permeable block paving may be the route for us, no planning permission required from what I gather if we go down that route.
I'm struggling to find if I need permission to widen the entrance though, it's just on a cul de sac so not onto a main road as such.

Just check your water main.
If it’s an old lead one it might be worth replacing as you don’t want to dig up your new drive if you have a problem in future.

 

[Blue in Munich]

Aaah thanks for that, I'd not considered it from that perspective. I imagined I'd just be cutting down a couple of metres of my hedge to make the entrance wider, I never thought about the fact I'd also be using another couple of metres of pavement to drive over.
Got a guy coming over tomorrow tea time to have a look, hopefully he can advise me ?

I'm going for useful twice in one day...

https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/article/4421/Dropped-kerbs

If I've succeeded for Christ's sake don't tell Mrs BiM, she'll expect higher standards.

Now off for a lie down.

 

[GreiginFife]

I'm going for useful twice in one day...

https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/article/4421/Dropped-kerbs

If I've succeeded for Christ's sake don't tell Mrs BiM, she'll expect higher standards.

Now off for a lie down.

We were quite clever (or at least I'd like to think I was) when it came to this in that I calculated the width and position of the extended drive/wall with the angle of reversing so that the existing single dropped kerb can be used for reversing in to both "sides" of the driveway. Because I come in at a steep angle "across" the drive initially and then square up along the wall, all 4 wheels hit the lowered kerb and I never "bump" up the raised section.

Saved a fair bit of time and effort all round

 

[chrisd]

If I've succeeded for Christ's sake don't tell Mrs BiM, she'll expect higher standards.

I think she rightly sets the bar at a point that an experienced limbo dancer might struggle ?

 

[Blue in Munich]

I think she rightly sets the bar at a point that an experienced limbo dancer might struggle ?

At least she has a bar, unlike your carer.

 

[chrisd]

At least she has a bar, unlike your carer.

Course she has a bar

Can be found under the affluence of incohol at it most evenings ??

 

[Blue in Munich]

Course she has a bar

Can be found under the affluence of incohol at it most evenings ??

Driven to it by you, no doubt.

 

[chrisd]

Driven to it by you, no doubt.

She has her own mode of transport!

 

[Pin-seeker]

Mother in law had the resin done a few years ago.
Personally I don’t think you can fault it.
Really good for grip & so far as shown no signs of ageing with no maintenance.

 

[Fade and Die]

We had some pikeys do our block paving drive about 10 years ago and to be fair they did a great job but we do get weeds and it does need cleaning. Neighbour a few doors a long had a resin drive done two years ago and it still looks cracking. If I was doing it again that would be my choice.

 

[rulefan]

I'm going for useful twice in one day...

https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/article/4421/Dropped-kerbs

Gosh application £200+ in Gateshead, only £40 in Leeds.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Gosh application £200+ in Gateshead, only £40 in Leeds.

Gateshead council need all the money they can get ?

 

[Beezerk]

Fella came around tonight instead as the football is on tomorrow, can't blame him
To widen the entrance by 2 metres, dig out for the driveway for widening and lay a new drive in dark grey paving tile things, £5,300 all in.
He said it was 70 metres square with the new section of driveway.
Does that sound reasonable?

 

[Fade and Die]

Fella came around tonight instead as the football is on tomorrow, can't blame him
To widen the entrance by 2 metres, dig out for the driveway for widening and lay a new drive in dark grey paving tile things, £5,300 all in.
He said it was 70 metres square with the new section of driveway.
Does that sound reasonable?

Yes I think so. Have you seen any of his work?

 

[Deleted member 21784]

We had some pikeys do our block paving drive about 10 years ago and to be fair they did a great job but we do get weeds and it does need cleaning. Neighbour a few doors a long had a resin drive done two years ago and it still looks cracking. If I was doing it again that would be my choice.

Long as you get someone who knows what their doing

My neighbour (the one who moved) had a resin drive .. it kept crumbling as was done poorly so he got it ripped up 6 months before they moved and put down a block paving one

 

[Mudball]

We have gravel.. it sounds posh when we walk on it. However in the past couple of years, increasingly weed coming thru.. bloody painful abs ugly looking as there is more green on the driveway than the front garden. If I pull it out, it seems to leave a hole in the concrete underneath- which brings more weeds.
Not sure how to deal with it. Relaying the concrete means moving a few tons of gravel.
other minor irritant is that the gravel seems to slowly moving to the road and there is always a few stones inside the house.

 

[Beezerk]

Yes I think so. Have you seen any of his work?

He was recommended by a friend, his driveway looks pretty good

 

[Tashyboy]

Whatever you choose. My advice would be to make sure they are reputable. Living on an estate where half have had there drives done. Some look a real pigs ear.