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  1. thats such a good point. i'm glad for your input!! i did a trawl of the council website and no indication of any parking size requirements on there that i can see. and yeh absolutely nothing at either end of the bay. its just marked out in standard dash white markings. nothing marked internally within the bay etc. i just really need to get someone out to so we can have a sensible conversation! councillors have been very responsive despite being on holiday so will see what they come back with next week.
  2. just measured it, its 18.5. so that would be 3 spaces right ?
  3. i will go out this eve and do it. when you say 5.5m is that from the furthest end of the car to the other?
  4. yeh, basically theres a long bay probably about 20m long? there are no defined spaces within so you just park whereever alongside the kerb. the end of the bay stops pretty much at the boundary with the semi next to us. we are so keen to press on however, if we really aren't allowed the dropped kerb, then we'd have to turn it into a garden or something i think rather than hardstanding. so would mean ripping it all up if unsuccesful to do a garden. ah yes i am feeling quite inclined at the moment!! i actually was thinking how easy it would be to scrub out the edge of the bay on the road and make it shorter ? i keep reading horror stories where people have done that and the council made them put it back!!
  5. the electric car is a good point, it came to me this morning as well. my fiance and i are actually discussing it at the moment as it happens. i'm a bit reluctant to press that point though as they might volunteer to put a charging point on the road for us? we at the border of surrey / greater london
  6. i will ask! his manager interestingly hasn't replied to me yet when i forwarded all the correspondence to him that i'd had with this guy over email. it's weird as he has sent me a 2019 guide, i think he's sent me an out of date doc. there is nothing on the council website other than a 1 page checklist. no guidance alongside or anything. but i found something on their sister council website for 2020, for my council (i know this because it has the name of my council on the front page). when i compare what he has sent ovre, with this doc i found on the sister council website, both say exactly the same thing about the CPZ. both say it has to be assessed on its own merits. so what hes saying about being unable to vary it, i dont know. it just doesn't seem to make sense! i have been reading lots online for other london borough councils and they elaborate alot more on the matter i notice. i was measuring out today and with our crossover approach, you would actually only need to lose 'half' a car length worth of bay.
  7. awful!! it seems like councils just can't make sensible decisions at all.
  8. Hello, Ive been reading through some posts on here with interest. New to posting on this forum and hope I haven’t put it in the wrong place. I have a kerb drop issue with the council (a Greater London one). My fiancé and I bought a semi detached house at the end of 2018. It was very run down internally and we refurbished and gutted the whole thing, extended etc and we are very proud of how it looks now. There is a front ‘garden’ area which is currently very run down because of all the building works, skips etc. but we always planned and hoped to convert it to a driveway like the semi next to us has. You would easily be able to get 2 cars on the drive. We never thought we would encounter any issues. Lots of the neighbours have a driveway etc. There is never any issues parking on the street, some of it is residents only and some is ticketed but you can mostly always find a spot to park near your house. It is 12 mins walk from a popular zone 6 suburb for context. Anyway long and short of it is that I went to email the relevant person today about applying for a vehicle crossover. I didn’t do the formal process online where you pay £128 as I had his email from when I enquired when we bought the house. So I dropped him an informal email and asked when he was free to come out to assess the vehicle crossover at our home. I was always happy to fill out the form I just wanted to keep it informal initially. Anyway he has said he would refuse our application. He sent us some guidance document via email (which is not on the council website) and said the following alongside it: “I do not have any records of your application for a crossover to the property, if you had applied I would have been able to advise you that you cannot have a crossover to this property, your application would be refused. The reason is; there is a "permit parking" bay outside the property and under the 2019 policy I am unable to remove the parking bay. Prior to April 2019 under the old policy I would have been able to help by seeking an amendment to the "Traffic Order" which may have been agreed but also could have been objected to. I am as keen to provide off street parking whenever possible, the permission from the surveyor is not the issue in your case., From "highways " i have a policy regarding crossovers and it does not allow removal of any parking bay.” He has given me his managers email. However the guidance he attached to the email says the following: Traffic Management Orders – A proposed vehicle crossover must not result in the need to amend an existing Traffic Management Order (TMO), e.g. the removal or amendment of existing waiting and loading restrictions, or parking bay. This includes all designated parking bays, permit holder parking bays in Controlled Parking Zones (CPZ’s), paid for bays, marked parking bays in areas of permitted footway parking, restricted zones, home zones, permit parking areas etc. However each application will considered on its own merits. The full cost of amending both the TMO and road markings should be met by an applicant. Applicants must be aware that there could be objections to amending TMO, and objections may not be resolved. this seems at odds with what he’s saying about not being able to remove the space ? I basically said that none of this appears on the council website , only the checklist where one of the questions asks if the street is a controlled parking zone. And then it says if answering yes, the application may initially be rejected and/or delayed. Also I mentioned that the guidance he sent over says there is a possibility of amending the TMO. And he is saying it’s a flat out no? His final response when I pressed him on this said the ‘traffic order part is a bit confusing’ please email his boss who might be able to clarify. Which I have done. Can anyone help? At my wits end here we were getting quotes only last week for the driveway work and I feel like this will seriously impact our house value. So many other houses on the road have a driveway. I know precedence means jack all in this situation , or so I am led to believe. But his emails just aren’t making sense. I’ve emailed local councillors for some guidance on this. Just wondered if anyone else has experience with this?! What should we do
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