Apply for permission for a dropped kerb from Surrey County Council

The final step to dropping the kerb outside your property is to ask for permission from Surrey County Council.

The final step is to apply for permission from the highways authority. 

Go to vehicle crossovers and dropped kerbs – Surrey County Council

If you have a notice of planning permission, you will need to submit this along with your application.

After you apply

After considering your application, Surrey County Council may give you their written permission and provide a quote for the work to be completed.

Any roadside land which you do not own is likely to be part of a private road or a public highway. 

It is important to understand that you will make yourself liable to prosecution for trespass and/or causing damage if you do not have a legal right of way to cross over land which you do not own. 

Such liability to prosecution applies to any land which you do not own, no matter how small or how narrow the strip or piece of land may be.