Concrete driveways in Folkestone

On the Shorncliffe land the driveway work is what you would expect from a modern development: house drives, garage aprons and parking bays, laid to a consistent depth on plots with the space to work and the access to match.

Above the Leas it is the opposite exercise. Period buildings divided into flats need parking that the original frontage never provided, so the work is small hardstandings, a single bay cut from a front garden, or a re-laid entrance where a wall or railings have been altered. Because those frontages are often protected or restricted, the permitted development and surface water question is a real one here rather than a formality.

Where the drive is, and whether a vehicle can get to it

Folkestone gives you two delivery conditions in one town, and on a driveway they lead to opposite answers.

On the Shorncliffe land a full mixer stands at the kerb, the drive is discharged from the road and worked back from the far end, and a boom pump has room where the parking sits away from the carriageway.

In old Folkestone the descent zig-zags and some lanes in the creative quarter are stepped and cobbled, which no vehicle enters. Where a frontage sits on one of those, the honest answer is that a hardstanding there is a mini-mix and barrow job, or a line pump job, and it is worth knowing that before the sub-base goes in rather than after.

Setting up a Folkestone driveway pour

Say which part of town the frontage is in, whether the approach involves steps, and give the drive dimensions and depth. Your quotation, delivery and payment are agreed directly with the approved supplier appointed to your pour.

Send the detail to hello@kentreadymix.co.uk and an approved supplier will confirm the mix, the volume and the delivery window.