Block paved driveway and dropped kerb, Ryhall
An old slabbed frontage rebuilt as a block paved drive for three cars, with a side channel drain and a wider dropped crossing onto the road.
A block paved driveway with room for three cars, a steel-grated channel drain along the side boundary and an extended dropped kerb, completed in Ryhall in October 2026. The footway crossing was widened under a Section 184 licence from Rutland County Council, as the planning approval for the house required.
- Where
- Ryhall, near Stamford (Rutland, PE9)
- Work
- Block paved driveway, channel drainage, dropped kerb extension
- Finish
- Brindle block, charcoal double border, concrete edging kerb
- Completed
- October 2026
Real photos from the finished job, taken by us. House numbers, number plates and anything identifying have been blurred.
Before and after
The brief
This house in Ryhall was being extended and remodelled, and its planning approval came with conditions for the frontage: three off-road parking spaces, a sealed surface rather than loose gravel, surface water dealt with on the property, and the existing dropped crossing extended under a Section 184 licence from Rutland County Council.
What we built
The old slabs and hardstanding came out first, as the before photo shows, and the drive was rebuilt across the whole frontage, around 90m² of new paving. The field is a brindle block framed by a charcoal double border, with a concrete edging kerb holding the edges where the paving meets the footway and the neighbouring drives.
A steel-grated channel drain runs the length of the side boundary, so water falling across the drive is collected on the property instead of running onto the next drive or the road. It is the kind of detail that is easy to leave out on a big frontage and hard to add later.
At the road, the crossing was extended to suit the wider drive and the footway reinstated in fresh tarmac, all under the council's licence. Dropped kerbs are part of most of our driveway jobs, and we hold the street works qualification needed to build them.
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