Tactile/deterrent paving - suppliers/advice?

[pmetcalfe]

Hi all,

I would like to have installed some sort of tactile (or deterrent) paving on my driveway ramp to prevent local youths skateboarding/playing football there.

My builder wishes to finish up the driveway ramp (as part of our back garden landscaping) within the next week or so, so I desperately need to find within the next few days a supplier/retailer of tactile paving in/around East London/Essex. Can anyone help?

In the absence of any such paving, can anyone suggest a method of laying/surfacing a concrete driveway ramp that would deter skateboarders/football players?

All serious suggestions/advice/help gratefully received.

Thanks in advance
pmetcalfe

[Dave_L]

Some retractable nails set into the surface might do the trick!

[pmetcalfe]

Hi,

The problem is sadly one we are all seeing more and more of these days: not the feral kids per se, but their idiotic take-no-responsibility-for-my-children parents. I have asked these people repeatedly to keep their kids from playing on my property, with little success. Hence my original request.

Has anyone else got any serious advice/help to offer?

Thanks in advance
pmetcalfe

[Mikey_C]

gravel?

[pmetcalfe]

Hi Mikey_C,

Thanks very much for your suggestion. However, having had gravel on driveways before at previous houses, I'd prefer something relatively solid/static/maintenance free, hence the concrete/paving approach.

Once again, all serious suggestions/advice/help gratefully received.

Regards
pmetcalfe

[Pablo]

Cattle grid. But seriously a 1 metre wide stip of granite setts would do the trick for skateboards etc nothing is going to stop a football or a bike though. Most merchants would carry a stock of tactile flags failing that try groundwork firms that specialise in dropkerbs etc they could maybe sell you a few from stock.

[seanandruby]

tamp finish to concrete.

[pmetcalfe]

Hi Pablo and seanandruby,

Thank you for your suggestions. I will discuss them with my builder tomorrow (Monday 21st).

So far my builder doesn't wish to use the concrete tactile slabs, he has (reluctantly) suggested that we use the resin stick-down ones.

One further question for the forum: I want to place these flags/slabs on a small part of my side of a shared driveway. I take it that this is legal? If there's no new slab/flag on my neighbour's side, and it doesn't impede his access, then that is legally ok?

Once again, all serious suggestions/advice/help gratefully received.

Regards
pmetcalfe

[Dave_L]

I can't see a problem with the proposed slab-laying on YOUR area.

[lutonlagerlout]

Hi all,

I would like to have installed some sort of tactile (or deterrent) paving on my driveway ramp to prevent local youths skateboarding/playing football there.

My builder wishes to finish up the driveway ramp (as part of our back garden landscaping) within the next week or so, so I desperately need to find within the next few days a supplier/retailer of tactile paving in/around East London/Essex. Can anyone help?

In the absence of any such paving, can anyone suggest a method of laying/surfacing a concrete driveway ramp that would deter skateboarders/football players?

All serious suggestions/advice/help gratefully received.

Thanks in advance
pmetcalfe

an edging sticking up 15 mm at the bottom
LLL

[matt h]

buy a staffie and give him enough chain to reach the edge of your proprty. bikes and footballs will probably be littering along with remnants of the seat of the intruders pants:D

[Tony McC]

Probably too late now but you can normally buy tactile paving off-the-shelf from a civils merchant. These are specialist versions of a builder's merchant supplying the groundworks trade. In your part of the world, there is probably a branch of Burdens or UGS that would be able to deliver blister or corduroy paving ex-stock, but there are other forms of deterrent paving that can be constructed using standard materials - a simple example would be a standard block paved area where some of the (say) 50mm blocks are replaced with 80mm versions, creating an uneven and definitely skateboard unfriendly surface.