Concrete driveways in Margate

Margate’s Victorian terraces and Cliftonville flats were built without off-street parking, so the driveway work here is mostly conversion rather than replacement. A single bay taken out of a front garden, a dropped kerb followed by a small hardstanding, or a re-laid entrance where a wall has come out. Areas are small and the frontages are shallow.

On the newer edges of the town the ordinary version exists: full drives, widening and garage aprons on plots with room. And around the seafront and Old Town, commercial premises order small hardstandings and standing areas as uses change.

Laying a bay when the street has nowhere for the lorry

This is where Margate separates from Ramsgate along the same coast. Ramsgate’s obstacle is a basement area and a gradient. Margate’s is that the street is parked on both sides and there is nowhere for a large vehicle to stop.

A driveway makes that worse than any other pour, because the one space the vehicle would naturally use is the space being concreted. So the standing position is somewhere else on a street that had none to spare, and the concrete has to reach across whatever sits between.

Mini-mix is usually the primary answer rather than the fallback. The pour is small, a smaller vehicle finds a legal gap, and the load matches a single bay without waste. Where even that cannot get near, a line pump run from a permitted position further along the street will reach a frontage that nothing else can.

Ordering a Margate driveway pour

Send the bay or drive dimensions, the depth, where the surface water will go, and a photograph of the street if you can. 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.