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Can you claim compensation when diversion increases mileage?
lucylocket1983
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We live in a rural area in Cumbria. Our nearest town is 7 miles away. There has been a diversion at the bottom of the road for the past 6 weeks. This has increased the time it takes to leave our village and significantly increased our mileage costs. Are we able to complain to the council and try to reclaim any of these additional costs? I appreciate road works do happen but I do feel we're at a major disadvantage because of where we live. Would appreciate any help!
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Not a chance!0
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lucylocket1983 wrote: »We live in a rural area in Cumbria. Our nearest town is 7 miles away. There has been a diversion at the bottom of the road for the past 6 weeks. This has increased the time it takes to leave our village and significantly increased our mileage costs. Are we able to complain to the council and try to reclaim any of these additional costs? I appreciate road works do happen but I do feel we're at a major disadvantage because of where we live. Would appreciate any help!
Did you not choose to move to where you live now? As the above poster informs, not a chance, on top of that with the road closed for so long, there would have been plenty of notice about the impending work and planned outage.0 -
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Did you not choose to move to where you live now?
Believe it or not, not everyone who lives in rural locations chose to do so. Some actually get born there and then can't afford to move away as they reach adulthood because they're too busy trying to make ends meet on high costs / low wages.
That said, to the OP - not a snowball's chance in hell of claiming for this!DaveTheMus wrote: »Take a bus next time.......
Have you seen the price of rural public transport lately?0 -
You are lucky you don't travel on the A82, landslides have closed it nine times in 5 years and the diversion is 50 miles. If you want to come back that's another 50 miles.
Compensation? No chance.0 -
Joe_Horner wrote: »Believe it or not, not everyone who lives in rural locations chose to do so. Some actually get born there and then can't afford to move away as they reach adulthood because they're too busy trying to make ends meet on high costs / low wages.
That said, to the OP - not a snowball's chance in hell of claiming for this!
Have you seen the price of rural public transport lately?
Part of my reply was based on this thread .0 -
Sigh.. some people want to sue other people for anything and everything.0
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Lobby your council and councillors to complete the work faster.0
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Always amazes me that barratts can get an estate of houses built ground up in just a few months yet the highway agency can't fix some roads in a timely manner. Where we are they not so long ago completed a road re-jig and some traffic light re-jigging after 5 months, wouldn't have been so bad had it not been the main road through the city0
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Joe_Horner wrote: »Believe it or not, not everyone who lives in rural locations chose to do so. Some actually get born there and then can't afford to move away as they reach adulthood because they're too busy trying to make ends meet on high costs / low wages.
That said, to the OP - not a snowball's chance in hell of claiming for this!
Have you seen the price of rural public transport lately?
Not only rural, in sunny Surrey, it costs more for me and the wife to get a bus into town than it does to drive and park for a couple of hours.Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today!:mad:
Cos if you do it today and like it...You can do it again tomorrow..
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