Ramp for entrance

[Photo1250]

Mainly for those in the UK. Sent council an email to see if I needed planning permission to install a dropped kerb over my gateway. They replied. They don't give advice out for free anymore but I was invited to visit council website and complete a form (planning) and they would charge me £25 for the privilege of asking the question. (I don't think I need permission - but having to pay to ask)?

The form covers all sorts. You name it, the form covers it. There is a small question re dropped kerbs, but no way to express what my needs were.

My answer was to knock 3 bits of wood together and form a ramp. Works beautifully, but wanted something a bit more pleasing to look at.

Discovered The Ramp Shop. A business from Aberdeen.

Bought mine last week, and already using it with Adrienne in power chair.

Might be cutting the wooden one a bit shorter to carry round affixed to the back of the wheelchair for when we find the many pavements here without dropped kerbs! Or, indeed, shops, cafes, etc. with an entrance step (you'd be surprised)!

[Photo1250]

On ebay btw

[Andy-man]

Do you mean a 'dropped curb' from the pavement onto the road surface similar to what one has for your car driveway? If so I think that is an issue for your local highways department and the work would be done by a highways approved contractor. I don't think that is a planning issue. If you mean there is a step from your garden path onto the pavement, if your intention is to just replace the step with a small (short) ramp, again I cannot see why planning permission would be required. If this project was a major construction project that would be different. You could ask a local planning consultant for his opinion - they may give basic advice for no charge if it is a simple disability issue (always worth a try worse they could say no we do not give free advice).

[Photo1250 in reply to Andy-man]

Thank you for your response. Think my solution at the moment is worth the £22 I paid for it. Any dropped kerb solution would probably incur much more cost. The ramp works fine. Just put it out there in case it could help others.

Ian