Moving Driveway Pier

ScallionAyter

hi folks, we're doing our Driveway soon and intend to widen the driveway entrance by moving one of the Piers a couple of foot to the right.

One company we had out said they'd just lift the Pier, without needing to knock and re-build it. It's a block built Pier as far as i know.

Is this the recommended way of moving a Pier? I would have thought lifting it would cause the blocks to shift position and crumble apart. I also assume there's some concrete / foundations which would make lifting it impossible.

thanks.

jmBuildExt

ScallionAyter wrote: »

hi folks, we're doing our Driveway soon and intend to widen the driveway entrance by moving one of the Piers a couple of foot to the right.

One company we had out said they'd just lift the Pier, without needing to knock and re-build it. It's a block built Pier as far as i know.

Is this the recommended way of moving a Pier? I would have thought lifting it would cause the blocks to shift position and crumble apart. I also assume there's some concrete / foundations which would make lifting it impossible.

thanks.

Search the forum for "lift driveway pier" or pillar or variation thereof.
I got dejavu when i read your post, somebody posted almost exactly the same thing recently enough - I cant remember how it ended. Its probably the same driveway company.... The original poster might have some info for you.

Sounds unusual to me, but i suppose in practice could be done as long as they are able to separate it from the foundation without damaging/weakening it, and then clean off the concrete from underneath it.

Gumbo

ScallionAyter wrote: »

hi folks, we're doing our Driveway soon and intend to widen the driveway entrance by moving one of the Piers a couple of foot to the right.

One company we had out said they'd just lift the Pier, without needing to knock and re-build it. It's a block built Pier as far as i know.

Is this the recommended way of moving a Pier? I would have thought lifting it would cause the blocks to shift position and crumble apart. I also assume there's some concrete / foundations which would make lifting it impossible.

thanks.

Don't forget, Planning Permission is required for the widening of the vehicle entrance.

jmBuildExt

kceire wrote: »

Don't forget, Planning Permission is required for the widening of the vehicle entrance.

Really!??
In my estate the houses were most probably built with no front walls (40 yrs ago) - but there is a dish in the kerb in front of all the houses. It typically prob only covers half the width of the garden.
Some houses have built front walls with wide entrances (wider than the dish), some have short entrances only as wide as the dish in the kerb. Some have hedges of varying lengths. Some still have no wall at all.

I assume you dont need permission to build a wall if there is none there to start with? And if OP happened to have no wall originally, he can do what he likes with the pillar as long as he stays within the height limits?

listermint

You can easily shift a pier by movement depending on its constuction.

Its not actually difficult to do nor is it overly troublesome.

Gumbo

jmBuildExt wrote: »

Really!??
In my estate the houses were most probably built with no front walls (40 yrs ago) - but there is a dish in the kerb in front of all the houses. It typically prob only covers half the width of the garden.
Some houses have built front walls with wide entrances (wider than the dish), some have short entrances only as wide as the dish in the kerb. Some have hedges of varying lengths. Some still have no wall at all.

I assume you dont need permission to build a wall if there is none there to start with? And if OP happened to have no wall originally, he can do what he likes with the pillar as long as he stays within the height limits?

Wall exemptions and vehicular entrance regulations are different.
You can build a wall up to 1.2m at the front but you can’t alter, create or widen a vehicular entrance without planning.