Maintenance of private road

moneyistooshorttomention

Agrinall - not sure if you've missed the bit whereby this farmer has upgraded the road from farm track standard to tarmacked standard purely to suit himself personally?

Old_Grey_Mare

agrinnall wrote: »

Perhaps you should invest in an hour with a solicitor, ensuring that you take all the paperwork and provide all the information that you have drip fed into this thread, plus anything else that has slipped your mind.

Yes I will do. The information on this thread has been very helpful and stopped me panicking too much. I will definitely see a solicitor and take some notes from here.

tom9980

I wouldnt pay either, I would want multiple quotes and breakdowns of costs. I would then want a breakdown of costs of who is paying and what percentages each landowner is expected to pay.

I can tell you it is costing about £30k to build a 700 meter farm track from scratch over a field here in the midlands.

moneyistooshorttomention

Old_Grey_Mare wrote: »

Actually, it has completely slipped my mind that there are three families living at the farm, his mother and his sister and family, each in their own cottages, so if they are all paying a contribution, then it's looking more and more as if he's just split the total bill between all residents/field owners regardless of road use.

Re that - if his farm has changed ownership in recent years it will be Registered with the Land Registry. It may still be Registered under the modern system even if it hasnt changed hands in recent years.

It costs £3 online or £7 on paper to get a copy of the Register entry from the Land Registry. Best to have both "bits of paper" - ie the Title Plan and there's another "bit of paper" also - ie Register entry. So it's £3 (or £7) per each of those two "bits of paper".

On that - you would be able to see whether the farm is being treated as one entity so to say (ie including those cottages) or as several different dwellings (each with their own Title Plan and Register entry). I'm guessing that would give you the clue as to the official position on whether farm + cottages counts as one property or several properties.

Personally - I doubt he is charging the farm cottages money towards this. Though it would be useful to know.