Concrete Path

The advice depends on what surface you are going to lay - tarmac, concrete, pavers ?

 

Paving stones aren't the best for driveways as they tend to crack under load and tend to move if there is a slope.

You may find brick sets work out much the same £16 m2 as opposed to £20 for brick pavers. The pavers will give you a much better surface in terms of wear and looks and probably the same effort to lay overall as slabs. Plus you get some nice man hole solutions for pavers

 

Any reason why you must take the path up?

And what will you do about drainage?

Mr. HandyAndy - Really

 

Never heard of them so looked them up, seem they are a North East based company, so maybe they don't sell down South, their web page is very similar to Marshall paving, don't know if they are a subsidiary of them?

£10M2 seems a good price certainly cheaper than a paving slab thats strong enough for driveway use.

As for services all but cable tv should be well below the depth you need to dig out.

 

I miss read your post thinking it was paving slabs

The brick and block are the same size, although can be made of different materials. Some block pavers can be more decorative and used for light traffic areas. So you have to be selective in what you want.

have a look at this site for ideas and techniques http://www.pavingexpert.com/

 

There are building regulations for new drives but since this is an existing one you should be ok. However, you may want to consider a linear drain and a soakaway, there will be some water permeating through the sand between the blocks but most will run with the slope of the drive.

 

Are you sure the council will do the dropped kerbs?, my council has a list of contractors' who have the require public liability insurance as well as street works accreditation.

They may have a list, but they do not recommend any of them.

 

unless the road you're is quite and you have good neighbours'

Also consider planting some nice shrubs

 

We have Direct Labout Organisation (DLO) down here, where the council competes for work and their own Tenders.

It may be so where the OP is but quite often they won't quote as the work is quite small. So I guess the same will happen with the OP

 

I need my kerb dropped in a back lane on my building site. Even though were building a house, had all gear, virtually traffic and pedestrian free lane. We had to get a firm in because we weren't "approved". We couldn't secretly do it ourselves as the Building inspector was around all the time.

 

Was quoted about in the region of £800 - 1100 to have some kerbs lowered.

I think this is about 6 straights and 2 droppers. When they people from the council came out, they took the picture of the wrong house. Normally they will only allow the droppers to be within the boundary line. They will also look for any services that are in the way.

 

Nerve touched

A few years before we purchased the plot the council resurfaced the back lane, fitting new curbs and lowering the surface at the same time. However, there was an old drain which went from my plot across the lane into the mains drain - but they cut through it and capped it because it wasn't being used but didn't inform anyone or keep any records.

So when we came to build the house and connect the toilet it worked for about 3-4 days before it started backing up. Got the excavators back in and found the problem. Of course now, the lane is lower, so even uncapping the pipe and reinstating it wouldn't help as the new pipe would be on the road surface.

Had to run a new pipe to another sewer line and cost me a fortune and would the council accept any responsibility .......

 

Have you got planning permission for your drop crossing?

 

This happened in an area near me, a large mainly social housing area, that was tarmaced over, all the stop tap covers had been covered over. Utilities a few years ago redid the whole water mains and new supply connections to all the flats/houses.

 

Hire a professional contractor.