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You clearly have a proper drive and not a front garden off the North Circular that someone decided should be a car park for their fleet of battered Mercs…
With that in mind, I don’t think you’ll have any issue getting an application through. Your survey should have identified it.
Looks like you’re not in a busy area, on a quiet road? Part of me would be considering reinstating the asphalt ramp…
Ben689908
I could do with some advice.
We've been in our place for two years now and last week the council resurfaced our road. This has revealed an issue that had completely passed me by somehow - that we don't have a dropped curb leading to our drive. Now that I look at photos from before the resurfacing (see attached) it's glaringly obvious that when the previous owners had the drive done sometime around 2015 (based on historical street view images) they added a tarmac ramp from road to curb.
Is this something that should've been flagged in the survey or questioned during the conveyancing process and searches? Obviously I should've clocked it, but didn't.
What to do next? Should I be searching to see if any application was ever made? Or if there had been would that have come up during conveyancing?
Or do I just have to crack on and shell out for an application asap? How big of a deal is this?
Cheers