Can I put wooden posts right up to the road in cul-de-sac?

PasturesNew

If it's your land, on your deeds, you can do that. You have to do something that doesn't look like you're being an 4rse, something subtle that says "Get off my land ... look how lovely I'm making my garden".

chrisw

I would agree with the suggestion of large rocks placed every couple of yards.

thebaldwindowfitter

i also agree with rocks to

thebigstillmeister

...thanks for the replies, was also thinking about rocks, will check on costs etc,

many thanks,

Davesnave

thebigstillmeister wrote: »

...thanks for the replies, was also thinking about rocks, will check on costs etc,

many thanks,

If you want to buy rocks that aren't easily moved, you will find they cost much more than posts!

Someone near me decided unilaterally to install rocks on a piece of grass often traversed by delivery drivers, attempting to make a tight turn.

It was only a week or so before they vanished.

Those rocks were expensive, but not expensive enough!

warehouse

PasturesNew wrote: »

If it's your land, on your deeds, you can do that. You have to do something that doesn't look like you're being an 4rse, something subtle that says "Get off my land ... look how lovely I'm making my garden".

Exactly this. A large flowerbed would have the same effect and look so much better than rocks or posts.

moneyistooshorttomention

Money_maker wrote: »

Some peeps round our way use extra large rocks, you could paint them so they can be seen in the dark.

Personally - I'd also go for the really huge decorative boulders there. That will do the job of keeping intruders out - but wouldn't involve digging down into ground with services underneath. I'd have visions of accidentally hitting a pipe or cable in a service strip - and hence I'd put something of a "garden" nature there to stay safe. The downside to a flower bed is some people are "ignorant" enough they'd drive over it - and, if challenged about it, would say it was "an accident" (unless you did a raised one - say in stone or brick).

I wouldn't think it very likely they would be stolen. Guess it happened near Dave because it's "farming country" and there's a variety of hefty men with hefty lorries to hand to get up to stuff like that.

bloss0m

Its fairly cheap to put a fence up all you need is posts, post create and rails and some nails or screws. Dont put tacks down think of animals that may use the land, pets, foxes etc.

Large boulders are very heavy, not cheap if you dont have a free source and expensive to put down

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I wouldn't think it very likely they would be stolen. Guess it happened near Dave because it's "farming country" and there's a variety of hefty men with hefty lorries to hand to get up to stuff like that.

Errr... My point was that they must be hefty enough to be moved only by a person with a tractor/lorry etc.....which makes them very expensive vs a post or two or a raised bed.

It has nothing to do with where I live, which is among places with the lowest crime rates in England.