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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 8:08 pm
by keithroddy
i have had 3 pallets of paving stones delivered to my house the driver left them on the pavement against my wall there is plenty of room to get past because it is a wide pavement.is this illegal or does anyone know the rules on this.
thanks for any help
keith
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 8:40 pm
by Nigel Walker
I hope it is not illegal as I have been breaking the law for years !!!
Quite a lot of my deliverys are dropped off either on the road or on the footpath. They are usually gone within the day or maybe 2 days. I always barrier them off using cones and barrier tape, thus warning the general public.
I suppose if you leave the pallets there a while you may run into trouble. Or someone may help themselves to a few peices of paving.
Either get them laid quick or move them onto your property
Nigel
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:20 pm
by Tony McC
Technically, it could be classed as 'Obstructing a public highway' (usually described as the Queen's Highway, even though she's never been anywhere near it!) but most LAs take a relaxed attitude to occasional and temporary 'obstructions' such as those caused by driveway installation. However, if your materials were to completely block the path, forcing peds to walk in the road or to cross over, the Highways Dept might want to have a word in your shell-like. For those jobs where we know we'll have to block or obstruct a busy footpath for more than a couple of days, we always try to obtain a 'consent' from the LA.
Very occasionally, you get some git of a neighbour who continually phones the council, complaining that mums with prams are having to walk in the middle of the road, and that there's been half-a-dozen near misses in the last 12 hours, all because you have an agg bag of sand and two packs of Drivline 50s on the public footpath. The council are in a no-win situation: they don't want to give you grief, but they know that, unless they are seen on site in a dayglow jacket, wagging their finger at you, the git neighbour will be writing to the local paper and complaining that s/he was totally ignored when they made a legitimate enquiry regarding public safety. So they often come out, ask how long the materials will be there, have a nosey around the place, ask how much it would cost to have their drive done, make sure the git neighbour behind the twitching curtains has seen them, and then bugger off back to their busy life balancing paper clips on the edge of a desk somewhere in the bowels of the town hall. 