Cost of turning front garden into driveway?

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I’d like to extend the drive by turning the front garden which is currently just grass into a permeable block driveway.
The area is roughly 3m x 5m.

Just had a quote for £2900 which seems incredibly high? Online says the higher end price should be around £120 a sqm. We’re not in an expensive area.
Getting another quote for a resin driveway.

What have you all paid for something similar?

Thanks

I have had 3 quotes for an almost identical size, all very different:
1st - £60k
2nd - £40k but he knew more about the underpinning and drainage
3rd - said the biggest cost would be the dropped curb which apparently now costs appx £17k. He never came back with his smaller cost for the actual driveway (although I live in hope he has just been away for a month).

Sorry, as a result of the differences I haven't a clue either! Am in SE but not London by any stretch.

£60k for 15 square meters?!?! Surely not! That’s absurd.
Makes the nearly £3k far more reasonable! 😂

Sounds very cheap to me. Before Covid I got quotes for a similar size area which is currently part concrete and part gravel. I got quotes for concrete, tarmac and resin and think the cheapest quote was 6k and he seemed very dodgy……and that was 6 years ago before building type work prices went crazy.

I’ve no dropped curb to worry about, it is just turning grass into drive.

So you already have a dropped curb? People can still legally park in front of your driveway unless you get one and they have to be from a council approved supplier.

Sounds cheap op.

No need for a dropped curb, it’s a shared ‘private’ drive with 3 other houses, and I’d like the front garden bit in front of mine to be extra driveway.

Your quote seems very good. I paid about £4k for about 8x3 ten years ago. some of that was for a small added wall.
It will take two people a few days and trades need to make at least £300 a day before costs. Then materials! Trades near me are more like £500/day.
Those guesstimate sites for costs are ridiculous. Have never had a quote anywhere near.

I agree that’s ridiculous
Youre being scammed @6thformoptions

Seems v cheap. I replaced concrete with block in Surrey and was 7k

Call your local planning if you opt for resin
some areas need planning permission for areas over approx 5m2

It would probably help to say what part of the country you are in OP.

We are south east but ours cost £5.5k for a similar size 😂and we thought that was very reasonable! You are paying labour/materials/waste materials/tax. Costs of all 3 have skyrocketed.

We are in the middle of getting parking put at the end of pur back garden (backs on to a lane so no need for a dropped curb)

permable resin (cheaper ones are not permeable) for an area 7.5 x 3.5, including digging out, hardcore, resin, edging blocks and a new fence and gate is £8k

we had a cheaper quote of 4k but bloke seemed quite dodgy and he was trying to fob the non permable resin on us. We did have a more expensive quote of 12k.

We extended ours when we moved into our new build, block paving extended out from drive way turning it into 3 car drive and block paving steps to the door.
The same contractors who were on site still working on the houses (with permission from developers!) so they could work of an evening/ when they were free.

Our bricks were ordered as part of their next big order to save on cost, it was the width of our door way and about 2 car lengths down- cost us around £5k a few years ago and that was a big saving for us by doing it that way!

NE based (so I assume our quotes as on the cheaper side) and I paid double that last summer for a similar sized area. Your quote is very cheap (I would maybe go so far as to say too good to be true so make sure you see their previous work beforehand)

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I did my own, the cost of materials (slabs, sand, cement) was about £400. I borrowed my dads mixer and bribed him with pizza to help!

£2900 seems cheap to me.

We are in the Midlands and quotes for a (slightly bigger) drive have come in mostly between £7K and £10K

And hopefully got planning

What the plastic grids and keep grass growing through? I imagine that would be cheaper. But if a cat is permanently parked I don't imagine the grass would grow.

My parents had two tyre tracks of paving slabs laid to create a second drive years ago.

It’s “kerb” not “curb”.

We had similar maybe 3/4 years ago now. We paid £2400 for the front garden to be block paved .. big enough area for 2 more cars (just). All dug up and removed, filled and flattened etc. I’d imagine we’d be looking at least a grand more for the same today. We’re in South Yorkshire

I recently had a quote for a new block paved drive and rear patio (about 60 square metres) and it came in at £9500. £7500 if they re-used the old blocks.
I am in the NW.

Paid £10k for this in south wales