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I have a plan. Am I thinking this through correctly ? Particularly the drainage bit. Im not sure what to use.  All the other drives in the road have a road type gulley into the tarmac drives and none have channel drainage across the threshold..

 

All of a sudden I need to block pave my driveways. I need to leave a temporary boarder of about 450 mm between the footpath and the start of the driveway. This is because the pavement and its edgings will (hopefully) be replaced in 2026 when I get the dropped kerbs installed. With this in mind I wanted to install a new bull nosed edging approx 450 mm away  to retain the new driveway. This would be temporarily infilled with MOT until a later date. The pavers would then be laid to the lower edge of the bullnose to assist guiding the rainwater from the drive into a road type gulley at the lower end of the 2 driveways.  I wanted to connect this to the new (existing) storm drain on our land that then runs to the road then to a large attenuation pond system before heading down into the Avon. 

 

It's complicated ( as always) I now can't get the dropped kerbs installed to the pavement until 2026 at the earliest. The length of pavement has just been repaired and re surfaced ready for us to dig it all back out again. This was done by the developer that we bought the plot off so that they can start to try to get the roads and pavements adopted by the council. We offered to pay them the going rate for the final dropped kerbs to be installed while they did this work but they steamed on regardless and replaced like for like. There is now a 12 month maintenance period before we can request the council to provide the dropped kerbs. When the new design installed the edgings to the pavement will need to be removed and replaced to adhere to the council spec. at this point I plan to infill the void with granite sets. 

 

 

 

We have one dropped kerb for 2 properties which we can manage with for now.

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13 minutes ago, Alan Ambrose said:

Don't suppose you have a drawing or photo rather than us all trying to imagine this in 3D?

I thought I had a photo but no. I’ll get one tomorrow. A quick sketch ( road to the bottom) red arrows indicate the fall  A3A36C62-1173-4BD1-9056-F3A4C68E8171.thumb.jpeg.9e54fa08a54ac0c1fd450266af08f34f.jpeg2E275AC1-C773-42F6-9D5F-566082B39966.thumb.jpeg.e9fbc0819f28b36caf1ab421b7d8b314.jpeg

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