On 12 Oct, 17:45, Maurice W wrote:
Chums

I'm slowly (as is my wont) progressing thoughts about asking for a
dropped kerb permission, to park on the front garden. (The nature of
the road is that is required planning permission).

The local council are being helpful in email communication, but their
latest states



xxx Rd is classified as a Secondary Distributor Road and the Highway
Authority would not allow the formation of a vehicle access without an
off street turning arrangement. Clearly, this would not be achievable
within the dimensions of your front garden and any planning
application would be recommended for refusal.



which appears to be saying that they're expecting the vehicle access
to be big enough to turn a vehicle around on it. The neighbouring
houses all have narrower gardens, being terraced, and one actually has
a picasso parked on it, which pretty much takes up all the available
space when its parked on there, never mind being able to turn it!

Of all the houses, ours has the widest garden, but on account of a bay
window, it's not as deep. On account of this, our intention is to buy
a super-mini, which would actually be small enough to turn on the
parking space in front of the house.

Anyone had experience of this specific objections to a dropped kerb?

M

Yes i had a run in with my local council on a similar issue . I live
in a street in which every house with a car owner was given a dropped
kerb free if charge . My house previously was owned by an old lady so
she never applied for one . So i have been driving up the kerb with a
little piece of timber snuggling the kerb , and parking on my garden
without problem .

Then i got a letter through my door saying i was breaking some by-law
dating from 1878 ? stating i was driving illegally over a highway and
byway . LOL i could face criminal prosecution ! . So i rang the
council and i asked if i could have a dropped kerb like my
nieghbours , they promptly sent a guy round , and this guy spent an
hour with is little book and pen scribbling notes . then he went .

3 weeks later i got a letter saying it would cost me 699 quid ! ,
lol , it would cost of me a bag of bitumen and two kerbs at the time
around 20 quid all in , i just ripped up the letter and threw it
away .

Im still the only one without a dropped kerb , i still drive over the
path ( like my neighbors ) and i have never heard from them since ( 10
years ago ). If i do i will fight them . This is sheer lunacy .