Scaffolding over my back wall using private road

housebuyer7

Hello,

I live in a mid-terrace. I need scaffolding put up at the rear of my property due to needing to remove and re-render. In order to access my garden, the options are to take the scaffolding through my house (which is looking tricky due to narrow access), or go round the back of the house and pass over my back garden wall. The issue is my back garden wall backs onto a private road across which other residents live. I’ve been informed by multiple people on the street that they don’t like anyone using the road (I.e they complained when it was used for another person on my street to dispose of a tree). 

I guess my next step is to ask their permission to use the road briefly to pass over the scaffolding. If they say no do I have any way around it? 

CSI_Yorkshire

Do you have any access rights over the road?

user1977

housebuyer7 said:

I live in a mid-terrace. I need scaffolding put up at the rear of my property due to needing to remove and re-render. In order to access my garden, the options are to take the scaffolding through my house (which is looking tricky due to narrow access)

Actually tricky, or just the scaffolders can't be bothered? It seems unlikely that you can't take the bits through a house.

housebuyer7

I don’t think we have any access rights, think it’s just for the residents who live on that road (approx 7-8 houses).

I am not sure how tricky it will be, but if that’s our only option it will have to get through that way. We did have a lot of trouble getting our table through and in the end that had to come over the wall on the day we moved in, before I realised about the access issues.

caprikid1

I would challenge what they can actually do about ? Worse case scenario they call the police out and suggest you stop due to a potential breach of the peace....

housebuyer7

I guess I may be fined for trespassing?!

eddddy

Is the plan for the scaffold truck to drive down that road, or for the scaffolders to walk along the road carrying poles?

Does it look like a 'properly made' road which can take the weight of a HGV - as opposed to more of a driveway for cars - for example, made with blockwork paving? 

For example, do bin lorries go down that road?

A scaffolding lorry could weigh up to 26 tonnes, whereas a car weighs about 2 tonnes. If the road isn't designed to take that kind of weight, there could be expensive damage.



Maybe that's why the residents didn't mind you carrying a table over the wall, but were unhappy about a heavier vehicle being used to dispose of a tree.

Lomast

user1977 said:

housebuyer7 said:

I live in a mid-terrace. I need scaffolding put up at the rear of my property due to needing to remove and re-render. In order to access my garden, the options are to take the scaffolding through my house (which is looking tricky due to narrow access)

Actually tricky, or just the scaffolders can't be bothered? It seems unlikely that you can't take the bits through a house.

A standard scaffold tube is 21' long and weighs around 25kg I would not fancy trying to carry them through a house

Tucosalamanca

Have you spoken to the scaffolders to get their opinion?

Short pole scaffolding will almost certainly go through the house and might even be their preferred way of doing the job to avoid any hassle from neighbours?

Dustyevsky

More detail about the scaffolding being used and the road surfacing required, but knowing scaffolders, they might not be too concerned about the private road! I expect other deliveries are made on it. Our private road is regularly traversed by builders' merchants lorries without appearing to create problems.

Dustyevsky

housebuyer7 said:

I guess I may be fined for trespassing?!

Unless someone is abusive or violent enough to cause a criminal offence, you probably have more chance of being struck by lightning!