New gateway onto road

[br jones]

No restrictions so presumably 60..........anyone trying anything like that speed will soon be through the hedge
It’s one of them roads where 30 would be considered speeding by anyone with any sense, I doubt wether there’s anywhere on the lane where you’d get 215m visibility.

Where I’d like to put a gate is the other side of the hedge to a gate into another field though so pretty much the same visibility

Thems the rules and i have fallen foul to them in recent weeks ,the road we are on is the same.and that is what the council tit came up with ,between two 90 deg bends with over 100m each way vision

 

[teslacoils]

I asked the council a few weeks back and they said the only to get it in writing was a apply for a pre app. They came back saying it would need full permission, with vision splays, kerb details, and a hedge removal notice, this is for an unclassified lane.

So I’m a bit stuck now, was just going to go for a separate hedge removal notice, and see what that comes up with.

I think the mistake was asking the council for advice. Verbally they can say no. But now they have got you to draw a sketch, and pay them for a complicated "no".

Could the stretch of hedge not have been removed under one of the very many exemptions? Could it have been coppiced in advance?

I'd never consider a pre-ap until I'd paid a consultant for their advice first.

 

[S J H]

I think the mistake was asking the council for advice. Verbally they can say no. But now they have got you to draw a sketch, and pay them for a complicated "no".

Could the stretch of hedge not have been removed under one of the very many exemptions? Could it have been coppiced in advance?

I'd never consider a pre-ap until I'd paid a consultant for their advice first.

I’ve never done pre app for that reason, but last time we wanted to remove some of the same hedge, as part of another application. They deemed it as ancient and needed a hedgerow report.

No one in the planning would give me a definite answer hence me going for pre app. I’m sure any consultant would have cost me more than the pre app, and came to the same conclusion.

 

[Hard Graft]

Coppice the hedge and dont let it regrow In the bit we’re the gate is to be

 

[michael N123]

Surely the thing to do is stove a scrapped car in it by accident one night and bash a hole in the hedge. Then recover it away, get it scrapped pronto and then just put in a gateway in the resulting hole.

Why not just push it over with tractor bucket rather than buying a car for the job

 

[teslacoils]

"Ancient" has a definition. It either is, or isn't.

"Important" has a definition. It either is or isn't.

But sounds like you've got the t-shirt having done stuff to it before. Still I prefer to have an expert tell me. Planners are often *not* experts. And who knows how many others in the council get to find out / keep an eye out in future I don't know.

 

[Steevo]

“The contractor coppiced the wrong hedge”