My house needs a pavement at the side to protect it

LandyAndy

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

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

I'd be quite wary of randomly placing rocks on the public road.

Davesnave

LandyAndy wrote: »

I'd be quite wary of randomly placing rocks on the public road.

Yes, or angle iron, or anything that makes an accident more severe than it needs to be. If you do this sort of thing you lay yourself wide open to legal action if the materials aren't standard bollards or deflective barriers designed for the job.

I have a distant neighbour who lives at a pinch-point and he's placed vertical reinforced concrete lintels (!) in a line, 2' from his property's wall. Could be a big problem for him if, say, a motorcyclist is killed there as a result of colliding with them.

bouicca21

Do the accidents get reported? If the highways/road safety bit of the council know of the number of times the house has been hit, then it should be on their radar to think of a solution. I once did a driving course where the council accident person described some of the things they did to prevent such things, sometimes as simple as just painting the road.

Running_Horse

loveandlight wrote: »

The house is empty at the moment.

What do you think?

Sell up and pass the problem onto someone else.

TBagpuss

Maybe something like these would work?

http://starttraffic.co.uk/verge-post-flexible-bollard?language=en&currency=GBP&gclid=CMXa7_jG1sECFSXKtAodrBgApg

You might be able to find some which you could attach to the wall rather than the ground.

Is the issue people misjudging the corer and 'clipping' it? of so, reflective strips on the corner might help.

Is there a pavement on the opposite side of the street? If not, then you may also, in speaking to the council, be able to make a point about the danger to pedestrians, as presumably anyone walking along the street would be at risk as well.

davidmcn

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

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 this is just down to the historical layout of the roads and buildings, I can't see why the council would be liable for the incompetence of the drivers.

Davesnave

bouicca21 wrote: »

Do the accidents get reported? If the highways/road safety bit of the council know of the number of times the house has been hit, then it should be on their radar to think of a solution.

Reporting and chivvying is always key.

There was a problem with the road by our house, which I managed to trace back at least as far as 1990. The highways chap admitted privately, "The more you hassle us, the more likely it is that something will happen," so I made it my business to keep hassling.

It took about 2 years, but the problem was sorted.

G_M

N9eav wrote: »

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.

That was my thought when I suggested

add some reinforcement to the walls and/or reflectors/lights

large white-painted boulders

This is a common solution provided there is some land (which you own) on which to place them. But if your boundary is the house wall there is nowhere for the bollards to go.

Since the house is 100 years old, clearly the road was not designed for cars driving round the corner at 30, 40 mph

I doubt the council has a legal duty to do anything, but still worth asking.

The legal remedy is to sue the drivers involved for damage. CCTV?

G_M

Is the set-up anything like this?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236746/Road-built-building-couple-refuse-China.html

aileth

Can't help with any advice but this is terrible! We are right next to a road but we have a payment. The road sign is in our front garden and it's pretty much contorted beyond belief and covered in car paint due to the amount of people who are incapable of turning a corner.

Really fills you with comfort about general driving standards!