Developers digging up our road without permission

vax2002

Turnpike the road, it is still law, as long as you dont charge those who have right of access you can get your bum bag and charge them to drive over it.
If nothing else it will drag them to attention.

vax2002

Roll of red hazzard tape, £5 and under you go lifted with the broom, next please, those with rights of passage are free...

Sugared-frog

Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »

Surely they should have obtained a wayleave before touching your unadopted road. However it may just be the contractors have made spurious assumptions about the unadopted road and if you mention their errors something should be sorted out. You could end up with the whole road repaired and benefit the neighbours too.

No - hadn't even heard of that term before. But we haven't given permission to do anything in our road (and there is a sign up saying private road!), and told them that they shouldn't be using it for anything several times during the development.

paddedjohn

OP, do you definately own the road? i ask because you mentioned access for the binmen and where i live they dont go down private roads, housholders have to bring their bins to public highway.
If as you say its private then try and bargain with the council/developers to get the road upgraded and adopted.

Mrs_Arcanum

paddedjohn wrote: »

OP, do you definately own the road? i ask because you mentioned access for the binmen and where i live they dont go down private roads, housholders have to bring their bins to public highway.
If as you say its private then try and bargain with the council/developers to get the road upgraded and adopted.

Not necessarily. A local unadopted road has recently had a beautiful layer of tarmac put down (though this road is odd in that it is a public right of way) and the bin men do collect along this road and other known private roads. Private roads can give permission for access by particular groups such as the post or bin men.

Sugared-frog

Definitely on our deeds - my husband worked from home all day waiting for the meeting that they implied was going to happen, I had to go to work and got back to find that nobody had called and when I tried making phone calls it was obviously gone home time! I'm hoping to go into work late tomorrow - but I'm not trusting the developers not to have phoned anyone, so I will make some calls myself.