smcapstick
Member
- Location
- Kirkby Lonsdale
They would certainly find it more comfortable.
Narrow lane
- Thread starter Teejay
- Start date
- Location
- Cheshire
Done that a few timesFella down near my parents decided to turn the verge in front of his house into a mini lawn, even hammered in little stakes right at the back of the tarmac to stop people driving on it.
If its wet I often straddle the stakes in the pickup and drive over it just to pass him off.
There is also a new house built on the lane between us who placed some big stones on their drive to stop it being used as a passing place. Oh how I laughed as I accidentally moved them in front of their gate with the loader as I passed
- Location
- Cheshire
Sir loin
Member
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Football sized stones painted white to protect their lawns in our village are pressed out of site as the contractor comes with his combine. We warn them when he is coming but makes no difference, they ask to borrow a crow bar to recover stones when he leaves,
Courier
Member
- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
“Their lawns” ?
- Location
- Romney Marsh
Fence has been removed.
Good result.... Your representations, or have the developers been "seen" by the Council, do you think?
- Location
- Romney Marsh
I told the developers it was in the wrong place as did other neighbours. There was also a visit from the Highways dept.
Methinks it was "official" visit that got it moved so quickly...
Depends how big your stick is
ollie989898
Member
Good result but combine and half the local YFC with camera phones would have been more fun.
I think everyone gets sick of townies moving into areas and trying to take over the place with their peculiar ways. Traffic cones are a classic around here. They often go missing.
Thyey flatten quite nicely!
Exfarmer
Member
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Not so sure local developers here have been walking over planning for years .next door but one 4 new houses had permission to go in behind the building line. They went in front to the ire of my very wealthy neighbour.Methinks it was "official" visit that got it moved so quickly...
Approval was granted after construction was finished. They also were released from an obligation to maintain the ancient meadow in front as they had obliterated it with no consequences, would love to have seen what that would would have happened to a farmer who did likewise. They also have raised the floodplain by up to 2 metres to give the new owners a flat garden rather than a slope to the river
My experience, is that Planners are a joke, whether it's kickbacks or incompetence, I don't know. We all see highly questionable decisions being made, and sudden U turns for no apparent reason.
Highways tend to be a bit more Black and White in areas that they are actually concerned with I have found in my dealings with them. Granted there are some dopes, but they can be managed...
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Were these narrow lanes built with these ginormus machines in mind ?and we wonder why incomers moan that the locals don’t like them…
No they weren't, but the houses along these narrow lanes weren't built for 3 cars that all commute to work everyday
- Location
- south norfolk
Developers do as they please and councils can’t afford to fight them.this is why they get away with things that we can’t.they even use their own building inspectors who must be blind as a lot of the work is atrocious.
nick…
- Location
- Cheshire
No, but they also weren’t built for people too push their boundaries right up too the road from their “little place in the country”
Courier
Member
- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
They were built to match the width of a couple of draft animals pulling a cart passing something similar going the opposite way .
Very few of those are nowadays on the roads - things have moved on.