The architect specified a granite sett to the road, but I am unsure who can install this and whether it requires a drainage channel before the road.  We live on a no through lane, but the council do appear to own a section back from the road edge (hence the not sure).   There was nothing mentioned in our planning conditions and only the "hard and soft landscaping" condition might be relevant.

  

 

The granite setts would be installed on your land, so knowing where this starts would be well worth knowing. You can have this installed, or install in yourself on your land.

 

Are you set (no pun intended) on having this architectural feature? I don't think it would stop building control signoff if it was not there.

 

The dilemma is whether to go to the council to confirm the boundary which may raise questions with the PP/BC, or just making a reasonable estimate about where council section comes to. Are there any other properties on the lane that may indicate where a reasonable line might be between the council and private land.

Good question - I think that on a public road the highways dept might usually own the verge, say, a metre back from the road. Exactly how that all works, I’m not sure, but I think no harm in asking them. Our PP specifically states that our driveway apron should be built according to a standard drawing produced by local highways guys. Your council might have something similar.

Ours sounds similar. The wide verge between my plot and the road edge was officially "land maintened at the public expense" according to highways.

 

We did the crossing ourselves, or rather our builder did. He also installed a linear drain where it met the edge of the road as it slopes down towards the road. The outlet of this goes via a short pipe into the piped ditch that runs under this area. I've no idea if he was allowed to do this but my builder was good at just getting things done. It probably only took him a day or two to prep everything and another 1/2 day for the tarmac crew to surface it. He wasn't in anyone's way and nobody ever questioned if he had or needed paperwork (other than our planning permission).

2 hours ago, flanagaj said:

There was nothing mentioned in our planning conditions and only the "hard and soft landscaping" condition might be relevant.

 

The site plan in our planning application/grant showed where the verge crossing would be and it's rough shape. 

 

Isn't there a set distance back from road edge that has to comply with roads specification? I think it's the same distance as you have to set the gate back from the road edge. So stone sets from gate inwards and build up and tarred to road spec from gate to road edge. The roads spec bit has to be done by a roads certified contractor.