Very many years ago, I applied to have my kerb dropped, within weeks two council blokes turned up and carried out the work in a few hours with no fuss at a reasonable cost. The kerb to my current home is fairly low, so I just drive over it onto my drive, but some time ago, I applied to have it dropped properly, the now outsourced bunch of **** wrote back and wanted me contact Gas, electricity water companies, individually and get assurances from them all that dropping the kerb would not effect the services, and despite me doing half their job still wanted to charge a fortune, this is yet another example of the rush to outsource services to [censored] companies over the years.