Installing speed ramps on a private road

[davidjpowell]

Usually this is dealt with in one of two ways. Either one person owns the road and can recover maintenance costs from other users. I guess this is where you see the very dilapidated roads as that one person is usually not very keen to do any work and then fight for repayment.

Otherwise as above a company owns the land, and usually the land is then let on a 999 year lease. The leaseholders are then shareholders in the company. It's a bit more complicated, but means that fund cans be setup for maintenace and it's easier to enforce covenants.

David

 

[DITTRICH]

Not necessarily a company, but a trust could own the road. But who owns it? That is the question. Do you have tame solicitor living there? In my parent case, the tame solicitor handled all the legal guff, atrust was set up and legal title to the road transferred to the trust. All the residents make annual contributions to the trust for upkeep of the road. However, I don't think this is going to help in your case. Poking neighbours with sharp sticks is fraught with danger as everyone has to rub along together and they all know where you live. Any aggressive retaliation has to be untraceable. Legal and conventional steps will merely identify you to the nutter who may decide to take his own measures. A rather tough one this.
Les

 

[PJH]

Maybe someone else in the close has "friends" who could "persuade" him to be more considerate towards his neighbours. .....

Are you suggesting that Ratz might send some forum members around ?

 

[Ratz]

Are you suggesting that Ratz might send some forum members around ?

I suspect that after all the MB cosseting over the years most of the forum members won't be very street-tough .

 

[TonyVianoAmbiente]

I suspect that after all the MB cosseting over the years most of the forum members won't be very street-tough .

Certainly nowhere near as "brave" as some of them would like to appear on here!

 

[Carrotchomper]

Certainly nowhere near as "brave" as some of them would like to appear on here!

Who you callin' a keyboard warrior bro'?!

 

[BTB 500]

Hey, welcome back! Have a :bannana:

 

[IanA2]

Who you callin' a keyboard warrior bro'?!

Splendid avatar.....

 

[verytalldave]

And have another from me...................:bannana:

 

[kwakdonut]

Ratz, you have my 100% sympathy - I thought my neighbour was a psycho but yours makes mine look like a pussy cat!!!

Oh, covenants are a COMPLETE waste of space btw unless you upset the council (if you're lucky enough to be covered by them...)

Best of luck mate

 

[GazCaff]

Are you suggesting that Ratz might send some forum members around ?

He could have a GTG at his house, Wilmslow isn't too far for me.

 

[stevesey]

Rather than a speed bump, could a couple of strategically placed pot holes appear after a strong frost/downpoor?

 

[verytalldave]

A rather nasty thing is for a chipolata sausage (or two) to be poked up the exhast pipe with a small flexible stick until it gets lodged into the back box. And there it will remain for many weeks, if not months, causing horrendous smoke and smells to the owner. Often many hundreds of pounds can be spent trying to rectify this rather unusual problem by garages and often the problem is never ever discovered. It doesnt really help the problem you are experiencing, but you can at least derive a degree of pleasure knowing that the driver of the car in question is also having to put up with discomfort and unpleasantness.
Not that I have ever done anything like that of course.