New Road Drain

[Phil P]

Ok, so the council want to replace road drain/grid opposite the end of our drive. The one that is already there has never run for years as it has been cut off or block somewhere under a barn conversion opposite us that was done some time ago!
Now, they want to run it into a piped brook that runs partly in our field and partly under our drive, this means digging across some of our drive and possibly just into the field.

So, the question is do I just let them get on with it and make sure everything is reinstated as was or do I ask to be compensated for granting access?

The works won’t block our farm access as we have a second entrance, although it isn’t good turning into it from one direction due to a blind corner.

 

[Andy26]

If the boot was on the other foot and you needed to do similar what hoops would you have to jump through, that's your answer.

Will it benefit you at all?

 

[Phil P]

If the boot was on the other foot and you needed to do similar what hoops would you have to jump through, that's your answer.

Will it benefit you at all?

Won’t make any difference to us, if anything will be a hindering us while the work is been done. I’m just trying to convince me old man that we should be asking to be compensated!

 

[steveR]

Ok, so the council want to replace road drain/grid opposite the end of our drive. The one that is already there has never run for years as it has been cut off or block somewhere under a barn conversion opposite us that was done some time ago!
Now, they want to run it into a piped brook that runs partly in our field and partly under our drive, this means digging across some of our drive and possibly just into the field.

So, the question is do I just let them get on with it and make sure everything is reinstated as was or do I ask to be compensated for granting access?

The works won’t block our farm access as we have a second entrance, although it isn’t good turning into it from one direction due to a blind corner.

On the phone ASAP to your friendly local Land Agent...

Unless of course, you are getting some major benefits from the project, and it really doesn't sound as if you are!

 

[farmerste]

as above, get your land agent involved

 

[Lazy Sod]

Do you want a stripe across your drive that you'll always be able to see.

 

[Pebd99]

If you give them a favour and let them get on with it you’ll never likely see the favour returned. That’s the way it is round here with our council. All the good lads retired a good while ago.

 

[steveR]

If you give them a favour and let them get on with it you’ll never likely see the favour returned. That’s the way it is round here with our council. All the good lads retired a good while ago.

The Office wallahs all move on after a couple of years, Engineers not much longer. No continuity at all.

 

[CPF]

If you want to dig the road up for some reason it will cost thousands . So charge the council thousands for digging your drive up. Plus all the diversion signs and traffic lights you will need . Plus all your surveys to
be done .

 

[Phil P]

Do you want a stripe across your drive that you'll always be able to see.

It’s a gravel entrance so not to bad in that respect.

 

[betweenthelines]

It’s a gravel entrance so not to bad in that respect.

Get 'em to concrete it as a quid pro quo

 

[7610 super q]

Other parts of the country must be blessed with more / better land agents than Crapweathershire.

 

[Steevo]

Do you want a stripe across your drive that you'll always be able to see.

Or worse a cracked strip across your drive!

 

[kiwi pom]

Clicked on the thread asking myself, how many posts before the all powerful Land Agent was mentioned.
Post 4

People wonder why nothing gets done in Britain

 

[Agri Spec Solicitor]

Is all the work within the highway?

 

[Phil P]

Is all the work within the highway?

No.

 

[Agri Spec Solicitor]

Ask them why they think they have the right to enter your land. When you have their answer you have something to work with.

 

[Kidds]

Tell them to bugger off. If anything like the ones around here they will take 4 times as long as needed with 4 times more men and equipment than needed and at the end of it the drain won't ever work anyway.

 

[Dry Rot]

I'd be grateful if they'd got the levels right. Luckily I was passing when my local roads department were laying a new culvert -- 30mm higher than the ditches either side. "We didn't think it would matter".

I was too late in the laying of 250 metres of roadside French drain that created a rather spectacular water feature at one end. They had to dig that one up again and relay it to the correct levels. At least I'd predicted that so could feel rather smug! "I did tell you!". What the hell. The public will pay!

 

[Y Fan Wen]

as above, get your land agent involved

And your parish and district councillor.