Do you live on a private road and if so would you mind...

[Moredofbumsnet]

telling me how much you pay each year?
We pay £50 per year and the road is narrow and about 1.5 miles long (40 or so houses). We have no mgt company and things are getting in a bit of a state.
And if anyone could tell me how much their road pays for a mgt company it would be really helpful.

[UterusUterusGhouli]

£8.50 per month. Small road. God knows what they do tbh! I think its changed recently, but I couldn't attend the residents meeting.
I'm in a HA house though, and it's part of the rent.

[Busyoldfool]

About £200 per year but difficult to assess exactly as we pay for gardening, repairs to fences, lighting and communal cleaning too so not easy to break it down.

We don't use a management company as they ripped us off, (charging £10 admin charge for example to provide us with a receipt for the money we had jsut paid and adding hefty percentages to bills). We do it all ourselves and it works well.

[Youaresoright]

My Mum does, I think it is only £15 a year - they use that to resurface the road every few years, and any potholes in the meantime the individual houses are responsible for (for the bits in front of their property up to the middle).
To give you an idea of properties-to-road ratio - I'm no good with distances and I have no idea how many houses there are (60 maybe?), but they are basically all detached properties with a bit of space to each side (not huge houses and not huge gardens, but neither are they right up against each other, all 3 or 4 bed old properties). Your road sounds much more spaced out, so £50 a year to resurface when needed is probably right?

[Xenia]

We paid £20k to resurface part of one road this year. I think it's hard to generalise but if you can get residents to manage not use a management company (we don't use one) it can help.

[Rhubarbgarden]

My Dad lives on one. There's no management company and whenever repairs are needed it just leads to bickering. There are only 8 houses but they can never reach agreement - the "we should do it properly " and the "we should do it cheaply" camps can never agree. Recently the potholes got so bad my Dad ended up paying for resurfacing out of his own pocket from the entrance of the road down as far as his drive. I think they hate him.

[Moredofbumsnet]

Thanks everyone. At the moment we manage by residents committee but things are not going too well. We have potholes and can't agree on how to deal with it. We have 30k or so as an emergency fund but when the road is starting to look like rural west africa I feel this is time to start spending money.I was thinking of going to the AGM with the suggestion that we should either charge more (so we don't need to think too carefully about repair costs) or get a mgt company in which would cost us more anyway.The bickering about the nonpayers takes up most of the meeting and dh refuses to go these days.
Anyone know how you go about getting a road adopted by the council?