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New build road nearby

Notebook
Notebook Posts: 296 Forumite
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Hi
Apologies if I am in the wrong part of the forum, but cant see where to post.

A huge new sainsburys is being built about 100 yards away from my house on land that was an old gass works 20 years ago. A new road, not much further away is being built to bring the traffic in and out.

AmI entitled to any compensation due to the noise - to have my house double gazed etc?
If so, who do I approach / hire.

Thanks

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  • GDB2222
    GDB2222 Posts: 26,349 Forumite
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    Who's building the road? Highways Authority, or local authority, or Sainsburys?
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • mumcoll
    mumcoll Posts: 393 Forumite
    When the second severn crossing was built all the houses in surrounding village were written to by a legal company advising us we were entitled to compensation.

    This was one year and one day after the bridge opened - some legal thing I think. We had a few hundred pounds, with those nearest getting more. We had to do nothing, I presume it was a sort of 'no win no fee' thing, even though they weren't as common as they are now. I don't know if you can instigate this sort of thing yourself.
  • Notebook
    Notebook Posts: 296 Forumite
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    mumcoll wrote: »
    When the second severn crossing was built all the houses in surrounding village were written to by a legal company advising us we were entitled to compensation.

    This was one year and one day after the bridge opened - some legal thing I think. We had a few hundred pounds, with those nearest getting more. We had to do nothing, I presume it was a sort of 'no win no fee' thing, even though they weren't as common as they are now. I don't know if you can instigate this sort of thing yourself.

    Found a mention about waiitng for it to be opened - possibly for a year
    thanks
  • Notebook
    Notebook Posts: 296 Forumite
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    Highways Authority, or local authority - whats the difference?
  • Barny1979
    Barny1979 Posts: 7,921 Forumite
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    Notebook wrote: »
    Highways Authority, or local authority - whats the difference?

    The local authority is usually the Highways Authority, sometimes you'll have a Highways Authority like in Lancashire which is the County Council and the smaller borough councils do not have a Highways department. Or they could mean the Highways Agency.
  • Notebook
    Notebook Posts: 296 Forumite
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    Apologies - the difference to my claim?
  • GDB2222
    GDB2222 Posts: 26,349 Forumite
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    If it's the Highways Agency (sorry Agency not Authority - did they change their name whilst I wasn't looking?) details are here:
    http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/2568.aspx

    BTW, if it's just a road serving a single store and it's 100m away, don't get your hopes up.
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • Notebook
    Notebook Posts: 296 Forumite
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    If it's the Highways Agency (sorry Agency not Authority - did they change their name whilst I wasn't looking?) details are here:
    http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/2568.aspx

    BTW, if it's just a road serving a single store and it's 100m away, don't get your hopes up.

    I think that you will be able to leave the store via the existing road whereby it was originally a dead end.
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