How to go about dropping your kerb
Dropping the kerb outside your house has loads of benefits. It can widen your driveway, save your car’s tyres and make the approach to your house look more attractive: adding value to the house.
Dropped kerbs
Did you know that you don’t have to use the contractor your local council supplies?
You do have have to go through the council for the legalities, but you don’t have to go to them to source a contractor. They have to be aware of the fact that you will be dropping the kerb, but they don’t physically have to be the ones to carry out the work.
Here’s how it works:
1) Contact your borough council and tell them you want to drop your kerb
2) Fill in the form they send you and pay for the licence of the kerb
3) Find a contractor – it doesn’t have to be the one the council would supply, but does have to be one licenced by the council
4) Let the council know who the contractor will be
5) The council will liaise with the contractor
6) You can set a date for the work to be done
We are licenced by local councils to drop kerbs and are regularly in contact with the relevant departments to arrange dropping kerbs at domestic properties. In fact, we’re dropping a kerb tomorrow. This is how the process happened: the home-owner range the council, said they wanted to drop their kerb but that they wanted S Church Groundworks and Surfacing to do it. The council got in touch with me (they know us well already and already have all the details of our licence and insurance) and now we are getting ready to drop the client’s kerb tomorrow.
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Hi Sam – love the site; looks good and reads well.
Question: Are you an approved contractor with South Oxfordshire District Council? We’re about to move house and will have some groundwork to be done (including a drop kerb).
Gloria
Hi Gloria, thanks for commenting.
Yes, we’re an approved contractor with South Oxfordshire District Council (and, if it helps, we’re also approved and trained by Marshalls to lay their products). I’d be happy to help out with your groundworks and dropped kerb and I look forward to speaking to you.
Best wishes, Sam