Private road

[JumpRope]

Imagine your journey to school drop off and thence on to work was made, although not shorter, much faster if you drove along a 3/4 mile long private residential road. Faster because other routes are conjested with much traffic, and the private road is quiet with only residents supposedly driving along it.

The road is unadopted by the council, hence private - ie services not paid out of council and local taxes.

Would you do it?

Did you stop the parents, song?

Sorry, got distracted by the phone and crossed loads of posts.

I probably wouldn't as I'd assume I'm not allowed to.

If legally "the public" can drive on it then I wouldn't think badly of anyone who did.

Yes, we did stop it.

We spoke to the primary school who sent out letters to parents.

We also started shutting and locking the gate. We had to have one of those electronic lock things installed on the gates.

We wouldn't have minded too much if people had been considerate but they royally took the piss with it, and once one parent discovered it, we were inundated

It depends on whether it's also a public bridleway, in which case people can drive over it.

If it's not a PBW you need to get the other residents to agree to put an electric gate in, or bollards (one in the middle would do), otherwise as has been posted above you run the risk of a public ROW being established. The cost of installing a barrier will be cheap compared to the long term cost of resurfacing the road due to overuse.