Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 8:11 am
I have had various run-ins with highways about this issue.
They want to charge £40 for a temp permit for storage of building materials on the road.
But, you are allowed a reasonable amount of time to move materials off the road that have been put there.
What is 'reasonable'. This is a very arguable point in these matters.
If there is only 1 person moving 10 ton of sand with a shovel and barrow, a reasonable amount of time would be 1 or 2 days. But if you have a digger and dumper and 2 men, then half an hour is a reasonable time.
What we do is organize for the delivery of blocks to come at 9am, just as we have finished screeding the drive, then we start laying right away. By midday, most of the blocks if not all of them will have been laid, then we move the remaining blocks by Probst cart and put on the drive we have laid.
Thus we have removed the materials from the road in what I would call a 'reasonable' time.
We put out road signs, cones, barriers etc etc.
If it is a large drive, then we organise the deliveries to come so that the 2nd or 3rd drops can be off loaded directly onto the blocks we have just laid.
If it is a large job and the only way is for storing materials on the road that are gonna be there overnight or for a few days, then we apply for a permit, but for only 6 packs of blocks for half a day - no chance !!
What does annoy me is the half empty bulk bag of sand still outside someones house on the road that has been there for 3 months !!
They want to charge £40 for a temp permit for storage of building materials on the road.
But, you are allowed a reasonable amount of time to move materials off the road that have been put there.
What is 'reasonable'. This is a very arguable point in these matters.
If there is only 1 person moving 10 ton of sand with a shovel and barrow, a reasonable amount of time would be 1 or 2 days. But if you have a digger and dumper and 2 men, then half an hour is a reasonable time.
What we do is organize for the delivery of blocks to come at 9am, just as we have finished screeding the drive, then we start laying right away. By midday, most of the blocks if not all of them will have been laid, then we move the remaining blocks by Probst cart and put on the drive we have laid.
Thus we have removed the materials from the road in what I would call a 'reasonable' time.
We put out road signs, cones, barriers etc etc.
If it is a large drive, then we organise the deliveries to come so that the 2nd or 3rd drops can be off loaded directly onto the blocks we have just laid.
If it is a large job and the only way is for storing materials on the road that are gonna be there overnight or for a few days, then we apply for a permit, but for only 6 packs of blocks for half a day - no chance !!
What does annoy me is the half empty bulk bag of sand still outside someones house on the road that has been there for 3 months !!
