Dropped kerb (vehicle crossover) applications 2023–2025
Case reference FOI2026/02472
Received 14 October 2026
Published 9 November 2026
Request
Please provide the following information about applications for a new or widened domestic dropped kerb (vehicle crossover / vehicle crossing, for example under section 184 of the Highways Act 1980, or the equivalent consent in Northern Ireland). Please give each item separately for calendar years 2023, 2024 and 2025 (or financial years, if that's how you hold the data; please say which):
1. The number of applications received.
2. The number approved. 3. The number refused.
4. The most common reasons for refusal (for example the top three, with counts if you hold them).
5. The average (mean or median, please say which) time from receiving a valid application to the decision, in working or calendar days.
6. The current fee(s) you charge a householder for a dropped kerb application and any licence, inspection or supervision fee. A link to your published fee schedule is fine.
A spreadsheet or CSV would be ideal.
Response
Please provide the following information about applications for a new or widened domestic dropped kerb (vehicle crossover / vehicle crossing, for example under section 184 of the Highways Act 1980, or the equivalent consent in Northern Ireland).
Please give each item separately for calendar years 2023, 2024 and 2025 (or financial years, if that's how you hold the data; please say which):
1. The number of applications received.
Answer: Please see attached spreadsheet.
2. The number approved.
Answer: Please see attached spreadsheet.
3. The number refused.
Answer: Please see attached spreadsheet.
4. The most common reasons for refusal (for example the top three, with counts if you hold them).
Answer: Please see attached spreadsheet.
5. The average (mean or median, please say which) time from receiving a valid application to the decision, in working or calendar days.
Answer: Please see attached spreadsheet.
6. The current fee(s) you charge a householder for a dropped kerb application and any licence, inspection or supervision fee. A link to your published fee schedule is fine.
This information is publically available on the Herefordshire Council Website and can be viewed via the following link:
Apply for a dropped kerb - Herefordshire Council
As such we consider this information to be exempt under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 because it is reasonably accessible to you via other means. Please take this letter as a refusal notice under S17 of the Act.
A spreadsheet or CSV would be ideal.
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