We'd like to remind Forumites to please avoid political debate on the Forum... Read More »
📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!
Getting permission to open access to land and to drive through private road
Comments
-
OK then I'll ask the soppy question.
Surely you already have vehicular access from the top of your picture?
CheersThe difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. - Einstein0 -
The adoption of the road is something that needs to be agreed by all the houses....and even though there are only a few involved...we can not come to an agreement that everyone is happy about.
You touch on a point that has been a contentious issue for at least one of our neighbours and thats over the fact that you would only want to pay a smaller portion of the maintanence of the area because you see that you wouldnt use it as much as the others.....in our situation we have a similar sticking point of one housholer not owning a car,hence not wanting to pay anything,therefore increasing the burden on the other owners....
Unless everyone is willing to share costs evenly then I think you will find it difficult to agree who pays what portion for maintainence
We have looked into having our road adopted...however again at least one neighbour is against it...therefore its not an option at present...
Its a very tricky situation you are in...although Im sure you think its a perfectly reasonable request you go to your neighbours with..im willing to bet that at least one of them will raise an objection
Flustrating....
It is not easy to get private roads adopted. Our local council refuse to adopt ours.
We all used to pay a regular amount to one neighbour that went into a kitty for repairs whenever the road needed it but he got fed up with having to chase people up for the money and stopped doing it, so now we all just do our own bit outside our property.
This is not ideal and very often the road is in a very bad state especially after the bad weather we have been having.0 -
Its a very tricky situation you are in...although Im sure you think its a perfectly reasonable request you go to your neighbours with..im willing to bet that at least one of them will raise an objection
Flustrating....
Oh don't get me wrong, I am sure someone will object and I can see their point. But it seems perfectly reasonable as long as I pay for what I will wear off the road.Goal: Win a car (or cash to buy one
)! -- Haha goal from when I was a student. Never actually won this but got a good job instead.
What I achieved:
Car paid in full straightaway.
Two properties fully paid. Wohhoooo!0 -
OK then I'll ask the soppy question.
Surely you already have vehicular access from the top of your picture?
Cheers
Yes, why do you ask? I have access to parking at the front but not access to the land by car.Goal: Win a car (or cash to buy one)! -- Haha goal from when I was a student. Never actually won this but got a good job instead.
What I achieved:
Car paid in full straightaway.
Two properties fully paid. Wohhoooo!0 -
It's just that those three boxes North West (north being up whether it is or it isn't) of your yellow dot look like garages. Could be wrong - hence the question.
CheersThe difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. - Einstein0 -
Yes, it's garages.It's just that those three boxes North West (north being up whether it is or it isn't) of your yellow dot look like garages. Could be wrong - hence the question.
Cheers Goal: Win a car (or cash to buy one)! -- Haha goal from when I was a student. Never actually won this but got a good job instead.
What I achieved:
Car paid in full straightaway.
Two properties fully paid. Wohhoooo!0 -
So you already have some sort of access to that land or am I being truly thick tonight?
CheersThe difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. - Einstein0 -
-
As I said before, I have access to parking not to the land (can access the land by foot obviously).So you already have some sort of access to that land or am I being truly thick tonight?
CheersGoal: Win a car (or cash to buy one)! -- Haha goal from when I was a student. Never actually won this but got a good job instead.
What I achieved:
Car paid in full straightaway.
Two properties fully paid. Wohhoooo!0 -
POPPYOSCAR wrote: »But there lies the rub.
Getting several people to agree what is reasonable can sometimes be a major problem.
Yes, that's exactly why I have posted here: to get ideas on how to approach them and what to offer in return. And also to know the legal stuff involved.These households won't gain anything from letting us use their road. (...)
We know they will approach us soon regarding the removal of the trees and we would like to offer then a fair exchange but we don't want to sound like we are "blackmailing" them. Regarding the remaining households, we are lost as what to offer them as an exchange for their agreement to give us right of way. Any ideas of how we should do this? Thank you for any help!Goal: Win a car (or cash to buy one)! -- Haha goal from when I was a student. Never actually won this but got a good job instead.
What I achieved:
Car paid in full straightaway.
Two properties fully paid. Wohhoooo!0
This discussion has been closed.
Confirm your email address to Create Threads and Reply
Categories
- All Categories
- 351.3K Banking & Borrowing
- 253.2K Reduce Debt & Boost Income
- 453.8K Spending & Discounts
- 244.3K Work, Benefits & Business
- 599.5K Mortgages, Homes & Bills
- 177.1K Life & Family
- 257.8K Travel & Transport
- 1.5M Hobbies & Leisure
- 16.2K Discuss & Feedback
- 37.6K Read-Only Boards