jai_landrover
Well-Known Member
I would think you would need to get permission or at least notify the local council authority. Tell them that they are failing in their bid to keep and maintain this particular unserfaced byway, lay it on a bit and say we are more than happy to do the work in a structured clearance day. If they will let us, the council may have to send out a man to check and we wil have to submit helth and saftey reports, method, what we intend to, how we go about it in a of this I'm sure I can sort out given a bit of time.
There is a short lane in Sundon Park which was re classified as a byway from a footpath after it was found to have ancient rights. However when I rang the council to say I couldn't drive down it because of bollards and it being too narrow, their response was well not really what I wanted to hear! They said that they have no intention of making it driveable due to the ammount of stolen cars that could get through it onto the farmers land opposite, (The farmers field has access from the road anyway furthur up) also that they have had no complaints in the last however many years so it will remain undriveable although open to motorvehicles. The first thing he asked me was if i was plannng to walk it when i said drive, he seemed very arsey. I think it may be worth going for this aswell it's local, its not very scenic but it has a patch of land for picnics/kids, its just about a safe distance from the motorway.
Ryder if you wanna see it give me a buzz I can take you there one evening/after work Jai
Jai
There is a short lane in Sundon Park which was re classified as a byway from a footpath after it was found to have ancient rights. However when I rang the council to say I couldn't drive down it because of bollards and it being too narrow, their response was well not really what I wanted to hear! They said that they have no intention of making it driveable due to the ammount of stolen cars that could get through it onto the farmers land opposite, (The farmers field has access from the road anyway furthur up) also that they have had no complaints in the last however many years so it will remain undriveable although open to motorvehicles. The first thing he asked me was if i was plannng to walk it when i said drive, he seemed very arsey. I think it may be worth going for this aswell it's local, its not very scenic but it has a patch of land for picnics/kids, its just about a safe distance from the motorway.
Ryder if you wanna see it give me a buzz I can take you there one evening/after work Jai
Jai
