Lamp post on front garden/driveway, can they legally enforce me to put concrete bollards around it?

teddysmum

I'd choose the round design and put some curved planters inside, using climbing plants to hide the metal.

si90

teddysmum said:

I'd choose the round design and put some curved planters inside, using climbing plants to hide the metal.

yeah, i just think the type of bollards hes suggested generally look very commercial, you find them in car parks, not residential areas and certainly not on private developments. i am a bit shocked they have suggested it to be honest. I'd imagine my neighbors would likely complain also if we were to install them.

I guess i will just ask them under which law and legislation are they operating under and see what they come back with. I imagine it isnt any, and its just some guy at a desk whos decided he wants us to have it...

DaveHedgehog1955

Quite surprised to see how many people think this is a reasonable request. Those barriers are horrendous i wouldn't put one within a mile radius of my home they belong in supermarket car parks only! I can only assume theres a few educated fools here (naming no names) but this is beyond excessive to put these industrial barriers to stop a car reversing from only a few feet away???!!! I've seen cars that have hit these at ridiculous speeds and it takes a lot to really damage these lamp posts. They're built the way they are for a reason. I would seek legal advice on whether there is any legal requirement for this to be done as it seems ridiculously overkill to me.

AdrianC

si90 said: yeah, i just think the type of bollards hes suggested generally look very commercial, you find them in car parks, not residential areas and certainly not on private developments. i am a bit shocked they have suggested it to be honest. I'd imagine my neighbors would likely complain also if we were to install them.

DaveHedgehog1955 said: Quite surprised to see how many people think this is a reasonable request. Those barriers are horrendous i wouldn't put one within a mile radius of my home they belong in supermarket car parks only!

They're making a suggestion, not stating that these are the ONLY designs you could possible use. If you think you can come up with a better design of vehicle protection for the lamp post, talk to them... Show them your design. They may well agree to it. They just don't want their lamppost unprotected in the middle of the OP's drive...

(I'll figure multiquoting on the new site later...)

GaleSF63

If you do have to do it, and I think it would be sensible to, go for something that is tall enough to be seen by the driver or it will probably be hit at some point. Grow a trailing plant round it. 

pattypan4

I would choose the round one and be glad to have it, it is to safeguard communal property and will protect you from further expense if someone chips the lamp post or worse, bends it. That tree is horrible btw, no sense of style putting that in front of the house

Lorian

If I was determined to do this I'd ask them if a recycled plastic bollard either side would meet their protection criteria, something like this.

martinthebandit

How about building a concrete planter in front of the lamppost and rendering it to match the house?

General_Grant

ciderboy2009 said:

Presumably you've checked whether or not you need planning consent to do this?  Bear in mind that, on a lot of these modern developments, signing away any permitted development rights is part of the original planning consent for the estate.

Also, quite often the limited parking is deliberate in an attempt to get people to use public transport so planning consent might not be easy to obtain.

And then provide no walkway (grass directly at side of road) so people only use cars (or bikes) to leave and return home.  (But that's another topic entirely.)

AdrianC

General_Grant said:

ciderboy2009 said:

Presumably you've checked whether or not you need planning consent to do this?  Bear in mind that, on a lot of these modern developments, signing away any permitted development rights is part of the original planning consent for the estate.

Also, quite often the limited parking is deliberate in an attempt to get people to use public transport so planning consent might not be easy to obtain.

And then provide no walkway (grass directly at side of road) so people only use cars (or bikes) to leave and return home.  (But that's another topic entirely.)

There's nothing to stop you walking down the roadway. Cars have to go round you, same as any other road user.

Out here in the sticks, we don't have pavements. Or lamp posts.