My house needs a pavement at the side to protect it

loveandlight

I have a house that has no pavement at the side of it. It is also an end of terrace and cars are coming around the corner and banging into the wall which is the gable end wall.

It has had no pavement for a number of years but the past couple of years the side of the house has been damaged in various places with cars coming around the corner and hitting the gable end wall and taking chunks out of the bricks leaving some of the bricks exposed (the wall is painted) and in need of filling.

The side of the house is also being used as a parking area as there's no pavement and that is also causing damage to the gable end wall as they are hitting it as well. The house is empty at the moment.

I am thinking of writing to the council and seeing if they will instal some bollards or a pavement and send them the photos of the damaged side of my house.

What do you think?

theartfullodger

Do the deeds show boundary of property on edge of wall or further out?

G_M

Has it always been like this, or has a pavement been removed?

How long has the house (and road) been there?

where exactly is the boundary of your property?

Certainly it is worth talking to the Highways Dept at the council, but if, for example this is a 17th Centuary house abutting an ancient road, it's probably up to you to add some reinforcement to the walls and/or reflectors/lights and/or bollards (assuming there is space withing your boundary between the road and the wall.)

loveandlight

I will get a copy plan of my boundary and have a look. I'll post again as I need some help with this. It's just an average house in an average street but the house itself is about 100 years old. I don't know how long the road has been there.

Thrugelmir

loveandlight wrote: »

It's just an average house in an average street but the house itself is about 100 years old. I don't know how long the road has been there.

Most likely no cars around when it was built.

loveandlight

The title plan show the boundary is the gable end wall and then the road starts. I will speak to the highways dept because even if I get the side of the house fixed it will get smashed into again.

stator

Yes hopefully the council will be amenable. Is it a public road that runs right up to the wall of your house, or is there some kind of verge?
Perhaps the cheapest option would be to buy a scrap car and permanently park it next to your house to act as a buffer :rotfl:

bris

stator wrote: »

Yes hopefully the council will be amenable. Is it a public road that runs right up to the wall of your house, or is there some kind of verge?
Perhaps the cheapest option would be to buy a scrap car and permanently park it next to your house to act as a buffer :rotfl:

And is he prepared to tax and insure that scrap car every year to keep it on the road? He may also have a problem MOTing it

SG27

I have a similar problem although not quite as bad as yours I think mine is mainly pedestrians and bikes knocking chunks off! I have a placed a fairly large plant pot on the corner of my property meaning people need to go a bit wider around the corner. Now anyone who would have clipped the wall will hit the plant pot instead. Much easier and cheaper to replace the pot than constantly re plastering the wall!

moneyistooshorttomention

Bollards one way or another on that road I would say.

Wondering if large white-painted boulders there would do the trick as well.

It may be that you have to investigate whether you could get the Council to pay up if people using their road damage your house through carelessness? Don't know if that's possible. Assuming it is...fingers crossed that you don't have one of these cash-strapped little rural councils that would try to get out of that. After all, as we know there are quite a few uninsured drivers motoring round illicitly, so presumably the local Council would have to "take the hit" if one of them hit your house whilst using their road???

N9eav

A friend of mine had a similar problem and fixed a very heavy piece of galvanised angle iron to the corner. The iron gets scratched, but the masonry is protected.... Must tear heck out of the vehicles that drive too close.