Private Vehicular Access (Dropped Kerbs)

If Planning Permission is not required, the following Design Criteria will apply:

Width
The dropped kerbs should be a minimum of 2.7m driveway width at your boundary, together with the adjoining sloped (taper) kerbs (4.6m overall).

Alignment
Accesses should emerge onto the highway at right angles, as far as possible, to the road.

Gradient
Driveways should generally be no steeper than 1 in 12 (approx 8%) and extend from the road to your boundary.

Turning Space
On busier roads or where driver’s vision is limited, the applicant should endeavour to provide on site turning space for vehicles.

Driver Visibility
When emerging from an access, the driver of a car is located about 2m (X) back from the nearside carriageway edge and their eye level is about 1m above the surface.  From this point, the driver needs to be able to see as far as possible along the road in both directions.  On through routes, the following distances should be achieved in either direction, measured along the nearside carriageway edge:

30mph - Y = 90m
40mph - Y = 120m
50mph - Y = 160m
60mph - Y = 215m

Where these distances cannot be achieved, the applicant should clear their site frontage of all obstructions over 1m in height (600mm in the case of vegetation) for as far as possible in either direction from the access and ask the advice of this Authority.

Parking Spaces
Vehicles must be parked completely off the highway; no part of your vehicle should overhang the footway.  The minimum depth of parking space shall be 5m and have a width of 2.7m.

Surfacing
Within the property, the driveway should be surfaced with a solid bound material (i.e. not loose chippings) for a minimum of 1m inside the property.  This will avoid material being carried out onto the highway.

Surface Water
Where a driveway slopes down towards the road, measures must be taken to avoid surface water run-off from discharging across the adjacent footway.

If you satisfy the above reqirements, you can proceed to the next step.