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Post by grindle on Jan 14, 2012 16:58:42 GMT
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Post by cowslip on Jan 14, 2012 17:09:32 GMT
Strange but here our council are proposing that residents take responsibility for the verges outside their homes, particularly for cutting the grass on them, so that the council no longer have to do it! It is all part of the cutbacks for this year.
As I have an electric mower I begrudge paying for the electric in order to save the council money especially when they are also proposing to increase our council tax!!
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Post by Cherry on Jan 14, 2012 17:24:12 GMT
There is a bus stop there, so to make room for a pram passing, the passengers must step onto the gravel verge anyway. I am not happy about this. I think boundaries are being pushed and it probably does not fit in with the area.
In Australia, the house owners are responsible for the nature strip which is placed between the footpath and the road.
Where I lived in Oxfordshire, we mowed the grass on the verge and also the elderly neighbours'.
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Post by wildlifefriendly on Jan 14, 2012 17:25:59 GMT
That is a bit of a tricky one and so typical of a newspaper to sensationalise it and not report all the facts.
If the council did nothing and the couple tended that piece of land for 15 years, they could legally claim it as their own.
I must be reading a different letter to the Mail, the one I read said reinstate, not put the weeds back. Slap your wrists Mail online for making a mountain out of a molehill.
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Post by wildlifefriendly on Jan 14, 2012 17:29:48 GMT
Where I grew up there was a single track road with wide verges each side, now there is a single track road with no verges because the houses both side have claimed the verges and fenced them off.
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Post by merlin on Jan 14, 2012 17:30:31 GMT
It does seem ridiculous but I can see both point of view. Theirs is obvious but the Council may be concerned about setting a precedence or worried about legal eventualities in the event of some sort of accident. I hope they can come to some sort of compromise.
I like many of you have a 'verge' and always mow it but I'll refrain from 'enquiring' about it.
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Post by Louise on Jan 14, 2012 19:40:24 GMT
I saw this article too, it's a difficult one isn't it. Wildlife areas are good but eyesore areas in an urban location ... not so good  |
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Post by peony on Jan 14, 2012 20:02:21 GMT
It does seem ridiculous but I can see both point of view. Theirs is obvious but the Council may be concerned about setting a precedence or worried about legal eventualities in the event of some sort of accident. I hope they can come to some sort of compromise. I like many of you have a 'verge' and always mow it but I'll refrain from 'enquiring' about it. I think you are right Merlin. I live on a hill and where our Close joins the main road, we have to look up the hill to see whether any traffic is coming, and over the years the people who live on the hill had pushed their front gardens foward and planted trees and shrubs, so that we couldn't see whether traffic was coming down the hill. There have been several accidents. One of our neighbours who has lived here a long time approached the Council to complain about this, and when the Council checked their records they found that the land belonged to them and should never have been planted with hedges and trees. After a lot of letter writing it ended up with the Council having to pay to have the trees and hedges taken down and paying compensation to the owners. |
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