"PLUSH street in Morningside is home to the city's most potholed road - because of a row over whether to fix it."
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Neighbours-driven-potty-in-war.6728377.jp
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"Neighbours driven potty in war over city's worst road"
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Posted 13 years ago #
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I'd wondered why it was like that!
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Yes it is quite odd - out of date image.
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This sounds very much like the Statutory Notice changes ~7 years ago in Edinburgh. Many Properties were lacking maintainance due to uncooperative flat owners failing to agree on repairs resulting in an incident of falling masonary at the top of Queensferry Street (for those who didn't know). I wonder if the council could use the same legislation to instruct work to commence?
Actually this reminds me of a private road in my home town. They refussed to allow it to become a through road to the scheme built at the end of it, and as a result the council didn't adopt it, and it became the most potholled rutted strip of tarmac in the town. Made all the more funny as the local big wig company owner (in his rolls) used to complain about repairs to his road barge, though I'm sure he could have afforded to have it resurfaced at his own expense, he was so well off.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Considine Gardens, uphill from the roundabout at the north east end of Holyrood Park is like that as well.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Dave - yes, section 13(1) of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 allows a local authority to serve a notice on the "frontagers" (i.e. those with properties next to the road) of a private road requring them to repair it to a reasonable standards as set out in the notice.
If the frontagers refuse to do so then the local authority can carry out the work itself and recover the costs from the frontagers. I have never heard of this happening though - too much hassle for the local authority involved.
If the road is entirely in the ownership of the nursing home, which seems odd as this is far newer than the other properties, then I'm not quite sure how this would work. Still, that's what keeps lawyers in a job I suppose.
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I imagine the nursing home was once a large private house with a private road/drive, or was demolished to make rom for for current, and newer, nursing home. The owner probably sold the land off the road to the builders of the private homes along it.
The UK is full of newer schemes of granny flats which were occupied by large grand homes which were sold off once the old owners had died, leaving the legacy to their children.
Perhaps someone should mention to the owners the legislation you pointed out to me. Might spur them on to self improvement.
Posted 13 years ago # -
cb - those roads are in Bonaly, not Balerno and they aren't the responsibility of the council either.
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