Road closure charges

[Topcat]

Just got a big Beech take down job( £4k) The council have said the tree is dangerous and must come down asap. It's in the beer garden but over a road and if it fell would wipe out a house or two.

 

The highways dept are insisting on a payment for road closure of £330 and £49 for a permit to use the crane on the highway. I've paid only once in 20 odd years but that job was booked 6 wks in advance. Never paid before in this sort of case. Luckily the planning dept is going to give a grant to cover the payment to the highways dept.

 

Feel sorry for the lanlord who's only been in the pub for two years and the brewery are just been tight.

 

Just wondered what other councils charged,if anything. We now have to apply for a permit and pay £49 just to use a mewp on any council road within the ring road. Crazy.....

[Yorkshireman]

Nycc highways Did it for nothing again Dangerous trees near the roadside

[Dean Lofthouse]

The highways dept are insisting on a payment for road closure of £330 and £49 for a permit to use the crane on the highway.

 

We now have to apply for a permit and pay £49 just to use a mewp on any council road within the ring road. Crazy.....

 

Haha, the council really know how to screw us over don't they ?

 

Mewp permit

Crane permit

Road closure charge

Waste carriers charge

 

When are we going to stop being wimps and laying down and accepting all this crap, the french have it sussed.

 

I think we should nip off to hull and dover do a port blockade, any of us with boats get them out in harbour entrances.

 

We british are really stupid, I'm ashamed

[Yorkshireman]

I have in the past ,turned up to a dangerous tree, promptly phoned the police , they closed the road & I dropped the tree ........ FREE closure due to an emergency

[Sciadopitys]

With charges like that it must be down south!!??

[nepia]

The highways dept are insisting on a payment for road closure of £330 and £49 for a permit to use the crane on the highway. I've paid only once in 20 odd years but that job was booked 6 wks in advance. Never paid before in this sort of case. Luckily the planning dept is going to give a grant to cover the payment to the highways dept.

 

 

 

 

Planning department...highways department... ***** bureaucracy. Why can't a person from one just get on the phone to a person from the other and tell them 'we've got to close the road for 8 hours Saturday for a dangerous tree to be felled'?

Oops; I feel an attack of common sense coming on. Naughty boy.

[Yorkshireman]

Planning department...highways department... ***** bureaucracy. Why can't a person from one just get on the phone to a person from the other and tell them 'we've got to close the road for 8 hours Saturday for a dangerous tree to be felled'?

Oops; I feel an attack of common sense coming on. Naughty boy.

 

:congrats::banghead:

[Graham]

Staffs County Council wanted £1400. Evidently that covers newspaper announcement and some blokes to turn up on the day with a few diversion signs on their tranny.

[Highland Forestry]

Just paid £480 for a 30 min closure with traffic control through Bear Scotland.

Interestingly I just found out today that if you have all the right road signs etc and a chapter8/signage ticket you can legally close a carriageway or part of a carriageway with traffic control for 20 minutes, which is a statutory right..

 

is this true, does anybody know?

[Dean Lofthouse]

That's what I was told