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[Tamworthbay]

Looking to get our drive done. It is approx 12m x 4m or about 5 cars side by side. Anyone had either block paving or patterned concrete done recently and goy any ideas on price? Got a few people coming to quote but I always like to have a heads up on price before hand if I can and I have no idea on this one.

[acrowot]

usually around £60  a meter but theres no work about at the min so u should get a good price

[Tamworthbay]

usually around £60  a meter but theres no work about at the min so u should get a good price

Thanks mate, just what I needed!

[Dan]

  It depends massively on where you are in the country and what quality of work you expect.  Just before Christmas I had roughly the same area done.  It's quite complex here though and wraps around the house, including massive steps built of kerb blocks, blocked in drain covers, a channel drain at the front and a single bay of grass paving too.  It was about £5000 so probably £100.00 per meter averaged out but it is an excellent bit of work.  I am just outside London.  I assume you know about planning if you have the whole front of the house paved?

Edited by Dan, 24 May 2013 - 04:56 PM.

[Tamworthbay]

It depends massively on where you are in the country and what quality of work you expect.  Just before Christmas I had roughly the same area done.  It's quite complex here though and wraps around the house, including massive steps built of kerb blocks, blocked in drain covers, a channel drain at the front and a single bay of grass paving too.  It was about £5000 so probably £100.00 per meter averaged out but it is an excellent bit of work.  I am just outside London.  I assume you know about planning if you have the whole front of the house paved?

Yup, already concreted so not a problem, plus there is precedent on pretty much every house in the street.

[Dan]

  Sadly precedent doesn't matter as it's a new rule but the fact that it's already paved will probably save you.  You should check though, they can make you rip it up if they don't like it and if you don't already have a drop kerb they will never allow one without the relevant permissions.  It's not hard to get it to drain, we were going to get the drain through blocks but the cost is far higher and you also need about twice as much aggregate and twice as much waste removal.  A simple plastic cell soakaway under the front part of the drive and a channel drain is quick and easy.  Ours is the same area of drive as yours more or less and we only required one box of plastic cell for all that surface.  Although having the single grass paving bay gives us a good drain facility also, it's great for an extra space that isn't used all the time.

[Tamworthbay]

Sadly precedent doesn't matter as it's a new rule but the fact that it's already paved will probably save you.  You should check though, they can make you rip it up if they don't like it and if you don't already have a drop kerb they will never allow one without the relevant permissions.  It's not hard to get it to drain, we were going to get the drain through blocks but the cost is far higher and you also need about twice as much aggregate and twice as much waste removal.  A simple plastic cell soakaway under the front part of the drive and a channel drain is quick and easy.  Ours is the same area of drive as yours more or less and we only required one box of plastic cell for all that surface.  Although having the single grass paving bay gives us a good drain facility also, it's great for an extra space that isn't used all the time.

We checked with the local planning office and there have been 5 approvals since new regs came in so we will be ok, it's not the whole front anyway and has been concreted for 30+ years. Drainage is no problem as we are uphill of the road so it continue to drain to the path then the drain on the road. The drop kerb is there already too, nice and wide which is an advantage of being right at the end.

[Dan]

  Fair enough, at least you've checked and they can't say you haven't!  I am surprised though as draining into the road is exactly what it's not allowed to do now.

[Tamworthbay]

Fair enough, at least you've checked and they can't say you haven't!  I am surprised though as draining into the road is exactly what it's not allowed to do now.

I don't think we would get away with it if it didn't do that already but the planning officer seemed happy that it was a like for like change and was happy with that. We will still have to submit once we know for sure what is happening but I have his comments in writing so I don't foresee any problems.