Turn Cul de sac into a private road

davidmcn

p00hsticks wrote: »

Even if you could do it it strikes me as using a sledgehammer to crush a nut. Once the road is private then presumably the residents would have to pick up the cost of maintaining and managing the private road, the gate, streetlighting, organising a place from which refuse can be collected, etc - money which be more effectively spent on individual home security measures.

Or costs which will almost certainly exceed the cost of being occasionally burgled.

Slinky

I'm suprised that you've no idea where the path leads to, why wouldn't you go and have a look? I'd have looked before buying!

martindow

If it were possible to do this you would have to set up some sort of management company and pay for all of the costs you will have taken on. Buyers are (rightly) very wary of buying houses with a set up like this and you could end up devaluing your previously freehold house.

macman

Adereterial wrote: »

My grandparents live on a private, gated (but large) cup de sac in London. The council requires that the gate be left open at all times, and it is only closed once a year to ‘ceremoniously’ remind people its a private road. That was the condition the council insisted on before allowing the gate to be installed.

Even if you were to get it to happen, which you won’t, you can bet the council will impose something similar as a condition.

So, given that the gate is left permanently open, why did they proceed with the installation, under those terms? It seems a pointless expense.