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HELP!! Builders caused damage and deny liability!!

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  • elsien
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  • ashtriplett
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    Can anyone put this up for me please??
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  • AdrianC
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    This is a privately maintained road that the residents are responsible for? And it has been handed over from the developer to the residents?

    Then the developer is not responsible. The residents are.

    Either way, whether there is an issue with the road surface or not, the driver holds ultimate responsibility for deciding whether to proceed or not.
  • ashtriplett
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    This is still the developers road as they have not completed the development.
    We are responsible now for the private road, but there is still surfacing work to be completed on the road into the private part. If you bought a house, queried the road, were told by the developer it was fine and there had been no previous issues. Would you not take in good faith the road was 'sound' and drive up it to go to your new house? We were the first people to move into the street so the first to report the issue.
  • AdrianC
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    Can you just clarify, please? Did this damage happen the very first time your partner drove up the road? Or have you been using the road regularly since moving in six months ago, and the damage has just happened?
  • lee111s
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    Go into the sales office on a busy weekend and make some noise about it when prospective buyers are in.

    Watch how quick something happens.
  • ashtriplett
    ashtriplett Posts: 11 Forumite
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    Happened the very first day, the first time she drove over it!!!! We reported it as soon as I saw the damage which was the same day
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  • pimento
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    PasturesNew wrote: »

    On the balance of probabilities, I'd stick my £1 on it not being the developer's fault, but being an issue over driver choices. Some surfaces are "too high to get my car over" - and a driver has an amount of responsibility to think "ooh god... won't get it over that, I'd better not try".

    What if that obstacle was in the way of your only access to your house?
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