driveway who is responsible for repair

CaptainKidd

Why not look into buying a few 1 ton bags of gravel or however much you need and just spreading it over the drive, would save you the agro and stress with the housing. A ton of gravel starts from around £100 and although not cheap it would let you use the drive and save the walk with the kids and would help prevent damage to your car, even see if the housing may go halfs as a compromise?

ormus

my MIL lives in a council house. the main path to the front door is covered but not the driveway.
as the driveways were all added at a later date/s.

richkaren

we have appealed the decision not to do our drive and the council get out clause is we did a mutual exchange 3 years ago and therefore they are not responsible how long can they use a mutual exchange as a valid reason for not doing a repair also the council man said it will cost about £6k !!!!!!!
we have had quotes already for a 1/3 of that price this is really starting to annoy us now
any advice plz

Hintza

It won't cost too much to get a load of scalpings put down. Might need a digger to level site first.

14Westfield

are the kerbs lowered at your driveway entrance?

if they are not it is almost certainly a home made drive and the LHA wont touch it.

dropping a kerb costs about £1000 so this might be why the quotes you've received are so high. although hearing the £6k Council quote is really taking the mick.

can you post a picture up of the drive? from what has been described i'd think the adding lot of gravel ideas is the best..

richkaren

the kerbs are all lowered and the drive has been there over 40 years

iamcornholio

richkaren wrote: »

we have appealed the decision not to do our drive and the council get out clause is we did a mutual exchange 3 years ago and therefore they are not responsible

That is a very common thing which councils bring up, but the fact is that they can not opt-out of their statutory repairing obligations.

Take the complaint to the next stage, you may need to get some specific advice to help you ,as most likely the council will repeat things parrot fashion

I would ask them for their interpretation of L&T precedent on repairing obligations and access paths

Otherwise do the other options I mentioned previously

If you feel the path is unsafe, then you could get work done and then re-charge this to the council - but you need to be sure of your position if you take this route