Private road and pot holes

[hotandpermi]

Hi all

Pretty self explanatory post. We are currently buying a property that's only road to the house is a private road and it has a far few pot holes (big ones). It's a tarmac private road so I know us along with the other houses are liable to pay for road maintenance.

I wouldn't expect others to contribute but I wanted to find out how much pot holes take to get fixed and if there are any legal loopholes that we need to get through with the council to fix generally. I have looked on council website and come up with nothing

Have you asked the vendor what the arrangement is? I live in a private road and we all contribute to a fund for road repairs. The council will do it but we have to pay them.

For most private roads there will be an agreement between the houses that use it about funding repairs.

I'm not sure why you are mentioning the council. They have no role with regards to private roads.

Don't worry, public roads are catching up on the pothole front.

At least you can legally fix yours yourself.

some, not all residents in this situation create a group of residents to jointly maintain the road. Ask the agent to confirm.

my parents have an access road running behind their house, no one maintains it and the neighbors have never come together to arrange anything, someone puts some stones and soil in them sometimes but it needs a professional repair. It dirty and at times unusable. I wouldn’t buy a property with an unmaintained road that didn’t have some sort of agreement in place.

Thanks all - dare I ask a rough ball park of who eye watering ?

I ask not because I think the council should or would fund any part of this. I'm asking because I don't know if they would object or if there are any rules we have to abide by ?

I actually don't know what type of trades person we would need to fix it ? If it's done by the council but we pay them etc or I can someone privately to do it. It feels like a minefield tbh and I'm asking for mumsnet wisdom here as I'm well out of my comfort zone.

Thanks

My dad has a private road. Around £5k to redo the area -size I'd say is 30 by 30m (but weird shapes into drives)

Needs doing every 20 or so years. The other neighbors paid their share (it's in their deeds)

So work out how it's organised or if you have to rely on you doing your bit but others not bothering but you still need to drive over their bit!

This is fab thank you ! We have some money set aside to do various things that have fallen to wrack and ruin so this is on my list.

I was like ok we will get it repaired and then had the horrible thought of hold on do I need to tell the council. Seems like a daft grey area to me