Road To Rented Property
Sun, 02/20/2011 - 10:58
by the.gofaI rent a property like many other people do and have a side road / lane of the main country road to get to it. This is a highway so if you park your car on it with no tax for example you would be breaking the law.
Anyway. . . It has no end of pot holes in it and I recantly hit one of the large pot holes and it has thrown the tracking out on my car and has now cost me £95 for two new front tyres and to have the tracking done.
The council just don't seem to be bothered about it what so ever. Hell I can't afford to have that amount of work done everytime it has already knocked me for six in getting it put right.
I saw some council type people put a few spoon fulls of tarmac in the holes and still there was water in the hole when they did it. It lasted about two weeks at the most.
Well I am completely fuming about this as I have never had the tracking done on any of my cars. Has anyone else got a similar problems where they live. ?
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Hello all.
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Once a illegal Immigrant enters the united kingdom , said person can claim asylum if there country is either at war? Or there are problems in said persons country.
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Do you think it was right to deprive a old man of his home 2 months after his wife passing?
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Why don't you go back to reading "The Sun"?what are driveway rights?
the landlord next door when she was living there knocked down her wall and parked her car inside, without the council paving the floor, now she's rented the property to the council and I have asylum somalian neighbours. The man who lives there comes and goes and rarely stays there, however when you park in front of the house and he comes he beeps the horn until someone moves their car, surely this can't be right? i'm parked on a public road without marking or permits and he wants me to move, what are my rights in relation to this?
if the pavement is not dropped then you can park there, anyone with tax on their car can park in any street as long as its not across someones driveway, it is only someones driveway if the pavement is dropped
You should bill the blooming council for that. Someone should help you with that cost on the lane. It is a lot of money to fork out and if like me you have very limited funds then it can mean jacket tateys for a week or so.
My car is just covered in muck head to toe and I find myself ducking and diving to try and avoid every pot hole possible. I am just waiting for someone to say what the hell are you doing.
Hope you can get the lane sorted as it will only get worse and damage your car even more.
Mouse
Hi there. You should take photos of the holes and the vehicles making a mess of that track / lane and send them to the council that covers your area and ask them to contribute to your rather large bill.
That is a lot of money for the majority of people to pay out at the best of times. I know for sure it would kill my finances to pay it out and I would be going without a few things for a while.
But good luck if you can get anything out of a council.
Alexender
That happend to me once where I used to live. The road was just a nightmare. Everytime you drove down it you did not know if you was going to be sucked up in to a hole. Well one day it had been raining hard and I hit a hole and it had knocked the tracking out and of course I had to have new tyres at the front. It cost me a damn fortune.
I compalined to the local council and they were just no help what so ever. It really dose make you mad. You pay all this money in council tax and road tax but you do not expect to have your car damaged in this day and age. This country is meant to have some of the best roads well I keep seeing more and more pot holes and am wondering where these roads are.
I tell you what it is they do and that is they just chuck a bit of cheap tarmac in the hole stamp on it and it lasts for about a week then we seem to get an even bigger hole.
You are right mate. They just chuck a bit of cheap tarmac in then it only lasts five minutes.
The said lane / track in question has currently dried out now and not only do you have to dodge the pot holes, well crators but it is just a dust storm when you go down it and the car is totally covered in dust.
So you have to wash it to get the worst of the wet muck stuff off it to try and protect it as much as you can then your covered in dust. You can't win.
But that £95 really knocked me back a lot.
Jamie
That is a costly exspence is that. No one needs that carry on at the best of times.
I tell you the local council and other comapanys soon find the money to dig a hole in the road or footpath but you never seem to see anyone there doing anything to it.
They fill it it in sometime after and that bit is never right again and of course the rest of the road starts to break up and yes you get the pot holes and it is us poor car drivers who have to suffer.
Mouse
To right Mouse. Is it to much to ask for a bit of the that goes to your property to be in a fair condition I ask you.
I mean to say you are already paying rent for the place where you live then you have to pay for costly reapairs to your car to get to your home.
I bet you any money that the road to this home is a public high way so you have to have your car tax, m.o.t etc along with insurance so why can't the council just make it a little better. You leave your car on the side with no tax and see how long before pc plod turns up and gives you a ticket.
If there is a a few of you that live where you do may be you could all write to the council. May be take photos and send in proof of the work you have had to have done to your car relating to the lane / road.