Can you help re i damage my audi last night

[john p]

you want anymore of that timber tommorrow jon?we back there in morn,the neighbours came back as we were finishing,went absolutley ape

[mendiplogs]

you want anymore of that timber tommorrow jon?we back there in morn,the neighbours came back as we were finishing,went absolutley ape

 

HI JON yes mate give me a ring thats the way she see is mate:thumbdown: tomorrow mate thanks jon

[eggsarascal]

Our Parish Council recently sent out a circular to all residents asking that they did not place these stones on the verge, the first metre belongs to the Highways Agency, so technically they are obstructing the highways. Photos and stuff should help your case, and hide the cider By the way, to date no one has moved the stones around here, and no prosecutions, says it all really.

 

Don't believe the "first metre" belongs to the Highways Agency!! Utter rubbish as far as Suffolk CC (Highways department) are concerned!!

 

There was a smash (RTA) outside our place a couple of years ago. Ripped up the verge/ditch out the front that I always maintained. After many phone calls and a site visit.......It was down to me to sort out:thumbdown:

[Andy Collins]

Sorry Eggs, you're wrong. Highways have served notice on several people I know for various infringements of the golden 1.5m. It's nothing to with Planning, but the Highways Dept. I do think that they use whatever rules they can to get their own way when it suits them. One person I know erected a fence within 1.5m of the highway, and they ordered him to remove it to a distance outside of the 1.5 as it was on the highway. I was there when the SCC highways official arrived, we used other similar examples to argue the case, but they stuck to their guns. Hedges must also be maintained 1.5m from the Highway, as I have carried out ordered works on behalf of the clients who have been ordered by Highways.

I think because you had maintained the verge etc previously, you accepted some kind of responsibility for it, I guess that's their angle anyway.

Edited October 17, 2012 by Andy Collins

[mdt]

I have also heard of this 1.5m rule as well, we have an outlying farm but the people who live there own the house they put big stones on the verges leading up to the drive. They were told to shift them as a danger to road traffic, must have have been 8 years ago, yep they are still there today!

 

sent from my office in the field via s3

[Andy Collins]

https://www.csduk.com/CSD/Transportandstreets/Roadandpathwaymaintenance/Grass+cutting+and+verge+maintenance.htm

I've just checked at least half a dozen district council with good old Google, and they all basically say the same thing about the council owned highways and responsibilities.

Mendiplogs, just Google your local council and see what it says.

[eggsarascal]

https://www.csduk.com/CSD/Transportandstreets/Roadandpathwaymaintenance/Grass+cutting+and+verge+maintenance.htm

I've just checked at least half a dozen district council with good old Google, and they all basically say the same thing about the council owned highways and responsibilities.

Mendiplogs, just Google your local council and see what it says.

 

Your link seems to talk the talk, Andy.

 

But in reality the verges around here would never be cut if the locals didn't do it.

 

Lets face it some of us live in the sticks, the closest pub, shop, post office, phone box or even street light is in the next village, ya never see a police officer or even a PCSO.....What chance have we got of getting the grass cut:001_rolleyes:

[Andy Collins]

Yes I know, it's two miles in any direction for me to reach a village with any kind of services too. Our verges are cut once a year, in the winter a gritter occasionally gets lost and turns down our road, of course it's not actually spreading! But yu can't let the truth get in the way of petty beurocrats having their say.

[Goaty]

Round here quite a few hedges have narrowed the roads up and the council hasn't bothered.

Case of let sleeping dogs lie, if they wake up ignore them and they will go back to sleep.

 

I know someone who buckled an alloy wheel in a new pot hole a couple of winters ago. The council had a dedicated team defending such claims.

 

Go to the media Jon make a stink others will jump on bandwagon. Do a mournful pose getting in to the smart car banging your head on the way in and say this is what you are now reduced to.

[mendiplogs]

https://www.csduk.com/CSD/Transportandstreets/Roadandpathwaymaintenance/Grass+cutting+and+verge+maintenance.htm

I've just checked at least half a dozen district council with good old Google, and they all basically say the same thing about the council owned highways and responsibilities.

Mendiplogs, just Google your local council and see what it says.

 

HI ANDY thanks mate will do and hand it to NFU thanks jon