Get H Bar Marking Application - Wigan Council

Planning permission is usually required if you wish to drop the kerb outside your property to allow a car to cross the pavement. This is because the pavement may need to be strengthened to take the weight of vehicles and prevent them from damaging the surface or any pipes or cables underneath.

The average cost to drop a kerb is usually around £800 - £1,200 for the installation. Although, we advise you to contact your Local Authority to get a quote as many councils may charge differently.

Kerbs can only be dropped by applying through us - you must not carry out the work yourself. You will need planning permission if you are surfacing over 5 square metres (approx. 54 square feet) of your front garden or your property is: on a classified road (typically a main road)

Parking across a dropped kerb is a parking contravention for which a Penalty Charge Notice can be issued. This means if you park in across a dropped kerb you are committing an offence unless you have permission. ...

Put simply, if you park in a part of a road where there is a dropped kerb you are committing an offence UNLESS you have the permission of the owner of the property, or properties, using that dropped kerb.

leave enough room for you to park your vehicle completely on the property. be at least 4.8m long between the back of the pavement or property boundary (the face of any wall, fence or hedge for example) and the front of your building. ... be a minimum width of 2.4m.

Planning permission is usually required if you wish to drop the kerb outside your property to allow a car to cross the pavement. This is because the pavement may need to be strengthened to take the weight of vehicles and prevent them from damaging the surface or any pipes or cables underneath.

If the property has a marking that looks like an elongated 'H' Bar on the road outside, then it is not there as a disabled parking bay, it is actually there to remind other road users that there is a need for constant access to the driveway or entrance and that they should not park there under any circumstances.

If you are disabled, you may be able to have a dropped kerb to allow access onto a driveway. There is a cost of £77.50 to make this application. ... Someone will then visit the site and assess whether it will be possible for a dropped kerb to be installed. There may be a cost incurred for this visit.