Responsibility of Retaining Wall onto an unadopted road

mikehope1991

Hi all,

Apologies if this is in the wrong forum.

I am the Chairman of a Community Centre. We have a large car park and on our western & part of our northern border runs an unadopted that slopes downward. This results in a 3-4 meter retaining wall which runs along the length of this unadopted road.

This wall is starting to fall into disrepair and I was wondering who would be responsible for this?

Owain_Moneysaver

Probably the community centre (and if it's not a legally incorporated body, that might mean you, personally).

You need to check who the owner of the land that forms the road is, and also the property deeds.

eddddy

In simple terms, it's the owner of the wall who has responsibility for maintaining it.

i.e.

If it was built by the community centre land owner to allow them to raise the level of their land by 3 to 4 meters - then it continues to be the community centre land owner's responsibility.

But if it was built by the road owner to allow them to have their road 3 to 4 meters lower - then it continues to be the road owner's responsibility.