Has anyone had a kerb dropped?

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If so, how much did the council charge you to do it?

Kerb?

Varies from Council to Council - I know someone who got charged £80 and someone who got charged 2k

I was looking at house recently for sale without a dropped kerb. I was shocked to see that Birmingham council charge around 2k for it

I'm south east London we paid £1,200. The worst bit was being refused permission three times. We thought they'd want to take our money but they made it really hard. Finally after three months and three appeals with Google maps, line drawings and a bullet point list of benefits to the council they finally agreed.

Sorry, yes Kerb!

It's Worcester Park in Sutton Borough... we've already spoken to the council and had someone say it would be approved, so now just have to actually apply. A friend said 3.5k so I'm pleasantly surprised by the responses so far...!

We were quoted £320 in 2009 and £1100 last week (same council, same kerb!) We are using a private contractor to do it (£600 plus VAT) at the council's suggestion, as they have a backlog of work and we need to get it done to get our house on the market. There are a number of contractors who are council approved in our area, may be worth asking your council if they allow private companies to do it and if theu have a list of approved ones?

wirral council quoted me £1200

I'm on the Wirral too BornStroppy

ooh, really?! Im in heswall, where are you?

£1k for council approved man to do it. Less than a year ago.

We did but it was a long time ago and fairly cheap.

We're in east London and it costs a fee to apply for a dropped kerb then costs £1,000.00 for the actual thing.

I think the council offer grants for it too (not sure what the requirements are), or it can be paid in instalments.

We're in Meols. Not far at all!

I'm looking into this too. My council requires you to apply for it first, at a cost of some £250, and that's just for a surveyor to come out and look at it.

A neighbour had theirs done a couple of years ago and it was approx £1k and then he did the driveway himself. Mine is complicated because there is a parking space partly in front of where my drive would be, and it will probably cost a fair bit more to have that moved a couple of metres to the right. So I'm expecting more in the region of £2-3k. But it will be worth it, because it'll have a knock-on effect on my house's value.

The reason for the huge variance in costs is it actually only costs a few hundred quid in actual labour do do the job.

But for the supervising engineer to do the necessary paperwork, then get the van and crew for a day is around £1-2000.

So if you are one of several in the area that need doing and can they can all be done in a day, or multiples of days you will benefit from economy of scale and get it done for the £350. If you are the only one, all the paperwork still needs doing and there be a minimum day rate on a vehicle and crew so you will pay upwards of £2000.

In Kent, approx £330 to the council - you have to submit an application and drawing the use a contractor from a 'recommended list.

Contactor charged £2k incl vat. He was cheapest. Some quoted over £4k

Council specified footpath part must be concrete to match path. Some allow tarmac.

Change of bushy garden to gravel driveway using different contractor cost another £4k ish - for 35 sq metres approx

Included about £1k worth of drainage work re-routing downpipes and installing soakaway