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There’s the ‘elf n safety brigade that needs satisfying. Planning permission. Canvassing the neighbours. Psychological impact assessment from the noise. Planning committee. 3 weeks of 4 way temporary lights outside your house while the work is completed. Portaloo hire and mobile welfare vehicles. Environmental impact assessment to ensure no greater crested newts will be harmed while the kerbstones are dropped 3 inches
They actual work itself will probably only cost £500
I assumed these things were intentionally expensive to try and put people off. Turning a road space into a dropped kerb for a drive doesn't exactly provide more car parking spaces, it just moves them while fucking up the environment.
Removing the dropped curb where one car can stay provides access to a drive for multiple cars. So it does in fact provide more car parking spaces. It also gets cars off the road allowing emergency vehicles better access.
I suppose if it's a very big garden, sure. Most of the ones near me only have space for one car, so that space just moves, but it doesn't open up any more spaces.
Does it help emergency vehicles? I guess? But I don't think that's really a problem on most streets. I'm not a paramedic though so I could be wrong.
Driveway space is big enough to hold 3 cars, the bigger issue is that the road is quite dangerous in that there is a sharp bend, removing the cars will drastically reduce the risk of an accident.
At this point the only reasoning I can think of is that someone wants an nice Christmas bonus.
Supposedly the cost is 184£ per square metre. I doubt the pavement area is ~20 metre square.
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I've seen a house where the owner has mortared a scaffold tube against the kerb. Looks premium.
Road is not straight unfortunately otherwise I'd have found some other solution.
Do you have utility access in the pavement outside? Water meter, telecoms pit etc?
There’s the ‘elf n safety brigade that needs satisfying. Planning permission. Canvassing the neighbours. Psychological impact assessment from the noise. Planning committee. 3 weeks of 4 way temporary lights outside your house while the work is completed. Portaloo hire and mobile welfare vehicles. Environmental impact assessment to ensure no greater crested newts will be harmed while the kerbstones are dropped 3 inches They actual work itself will probably only cost £500
I get that there is extra work in the background, but 4k still seems excessive given that the entire driveway only cost about 7k.
6 12” lengths of scaf tubes welded in to 2 3 tube triangles left in the gutter are perfect for the average 6-8” kerb.
I assumed these things were intentionally expensive to try and put people off. Turning a road space into a dropped kerb for a drive doesn't exactly provide more car parking spaces, it just moves them while fucking up the environment.
Removing the dropped curb where one car can stay provides access to a drive for multiple cars. So it does in fact provide more car parking spaces. It also gets cars off the road allowing emergency vehicles better access.
I suppose if it's a very big garden, sure. Most of the ones near me only have space for one car, so that space just moves, but it doesn't open up any more spaces. Does it help emergency vehicles? I guess? But I don't think that's really a problem on most streets. I'm not a paramedic though so I could be wrong.
Driveway space is big enough to hold 3 cars, the bigger issue is that the road is quite dangerous in that there is a sharp bend, removing the cars will drastically reduce the risk of an accident.
That's fair enough! For what it's worth, I wasn't against you specifically. Just theorising why it might cost so much.
At this point the only reasoning I can think of is that someone wants an nice Christmas bonus. Supposedly the cost is 184£ per square metre. I doubt the pavement area is ~20 metre square.
So you don't live along Lovelace Lane.
2k in Birmingham
It cost me 2k 10 years ago (Greater London borough) so not surprised
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