Council spending £250,000 repairing unadopted road

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KeithW
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Re: Council spending £250,000 repairing unadopted road

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avtur wrote: Tue Nov 16, 2021 20:15 The local council have contracts placed with waste collection contractors which require a significant number of the contractor's trucks to use this road everyday, yet the council deny any responsibility for maintaining the road that is used by the public delivering their waste to the facility and the contractor's vehicles that have to use this road to remove the waste from the site.
I am sure that if you look at the contract you will find its the responsibility of the company running the site to maintain the roads. One of the biggest such companies is Suez Recycling which has around 300 operating sites including Haverton Hill which handles waster collection and recycling for Stockton and Middlesbrough council. Now they do maintain the access road and site to a decent standard.

https://quotes.suez.co.uk/about-us
https://www.suez.co.uk/en-gb/who-we-are ... -locations
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.59587 ... 6656?hl=en

The council do have some leverage if the contract specifies that access must be to an acceptable standard but if they just went for the cheapest quote then all bets are off.
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Re: Council spending £250,000 repairing unadopted road

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avtur wrote: Tue Nov 16, 2021 20:15The local council have contracts placed with waste collection contractors which require a significant number of the contractor's trucks to use this road everyday, yet the council deny any responsibility for maintaining the road that is used by the public delivering their waste to the facility and the contractor's vehicles that have to use this road to remove the waste from the site.
Which feels unfair but is probably entirely correct. If the road is unadopted, it is a public road on which the local authority has no liability for maintenance. Whether the council themselves regularly send heavy trucks down it is neither here nor there: they are as entitled as anybody else to use the road.

The landowner could attempt to get the council to adopt the road, which they ought to at least consider if it is asked of them. But they're unlikely to agree without either the landowner paying to bring the road up to suitable standard, or making a payment for the council to do the same.

If you are neither the landowner nor the council then there probably isn't a lot you can do besides keep up the pressure on them to do something about it. Not an easy situation.
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