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Successful Reduction in Council Tax for Unadopted Road?
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Which is generally what happens with new developments, because the planners will require it. Most of the "odd" private roads are historical anomalies.
On that front - do you have any "chapter and verse" on when that became the case? I am imagining that its a rather recent requirement for "planners to require it" - but you never know...0 -
On paper yes, but in reality I don't think they actaully follow through with it very often.Which is generally what happens with new developments, because the planners will require it. Most of the "odd" private roads are historical anomalies.Changing the world, one sarcastic comment at a time.0 -
On paper yes, but in reality I don't think they actaully follow through with it very often.
Not sure what the procedure is in the rest of the UK, but in Scotland developers need to lodge a bond with the council before they start work, which pays for completing the road to adoptable standard in case the developer goes bust etc. That's been the case since the 1980s.0 -
Thanks for that. Now wondering what the case is in England and Wales. Would imagine it might be the 1980s too?
Am very un "au fait" with private roads - as, in England, there are so few of them and the houses in them are obviously for people who are rather "comfortably off" financially. Here in Wales - there seem to be quite a few of them and some very "ordinary people level" houses can be sited in them (mine only being an Ordinary Person House, rather than a Wealthy Person House iyswim). At least that was the case in the area of England I come from.0
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