Unadopted road and surface water drainage

Isle_of_Wight_man

If anyone has any thoughts on this problem I would be pleased to hear.

I will post this as a number of bullet points to make it easier to understand.

1. I live on an unadopted / private road with approx 38 houses.
2. Although I say private it has never been closed for a 24 hour period in the 32 years I have lived here.
   
3. The majority of houses are victorian on one side with the rest being back garden infill on the other.
4. The road surface is made of compacted stone and gravel and has a gradual slope from one end to the other. But then joins a T junction of two other unadopted roads which are higher. Thus creating a large puddle at the junction.
   
5. There are no surface drains on the road but it does have a sewer maintained by the water company.
6. Any holes in the surface are occasionally filled with brick rubble or stone by some residents, there is a large percentage of older residents in the road.
7. The problem we have is that any heavy rain flows down the road and with the help of vehicles, potholes appear which become 'lakes' in the winter.
8. The question is, with no surface water drainage installed into the sewer and no place to create soakaways do the council have any obligation to provide drainage gullys into the sewer?
9. Are there any other options we could look at? We are about to have our doorstep refuse collections suspended which means we have to take 38 wheely bins to a collection point. But that's another story! Thanks for reading and if anyone has a similar problem and resolved it would be interested to hear.
   

societys_child

It's not the councils' problem if it's not their road, and I'm pretty sure surface water shouldn't be drained into a sewer.

I lived on an unadopted road for 30 odd years, it was down to the residents to sort any problems with it.