You are likely to 'get done' by the local authority if you do any digging in the road or pavement and be liable for the reinstatement costs. AL
Aint that the truth. You could try asking for planning permission thou. May take a bit longer, but then you would know exactly how the council feels about There are two other option thou. Move to a house with a garage, or park it in the house :wink:
Planning Permission doesn't apply to doing work in the Highway, although creating access to say, a house or new development requires Highways approval......Planning Permission has no relevance to doing 'works' in the actual road or pavement.
There's the rub... Get yr bike nicked and you the victim will have to pay more insurance, secure it and get beaten to death with a clipboard!
There is no actual pavement outside the front of my house... There's the road, a kerb, then muck that my Mrs has planted stuff in, then some paving slabs leading to my front door. I assume I would be within my rights to plant an anchor amongst her flowers (ooohh-err missus!!)?
If the kerb is right against your boundary, then you are at liberty to dig an effing big hole on your property, fill it with concrete and set your anchor in it................if you then chain your bike to the anchor and nobody can get past it without walking round in the road or on your property, you should be safe. AL
If that patch of dirt (oh, sorry.........I don't mean your bike.....:wink........is definitely your property and not part of the Highway verge which is normally assumed to be 500mm wide (Its sometimes difficult to know whether they own it or you do) then you can stick a watch tower and a Maxim machine gun in there (although you will need Planning Permission for a structure)........... ..........so, depending on how wide that earth margin is (looks like about 900mm - 1000mm to me) then put your anchor and concrete 500mm back from the kerb........ .........watch out for your water main / meter though , which I think I can see...........that is normally just on your property.......and I'm guessing it is that far back for the same reason....ie Highway verge. AL
Al, thanks for the info, it's appreciated. I quite like the idea of an automated .50 cal turret with a motion sensor on it watching over my bike but imagine there would be even more paperwork to do when it goes all robo-cop on anyone & everyone who goes past it. On the other side of the road, there's a pavement, so I'm assuming that I own all of the dirt up to the kerb.
Where there is no pavement, there is normally a Notional Highways verge of 500mm.........chance it if you wish, but I wouldn't. I'll attempt to explain why.......The highways (or council) normally legally adopt the road once it is built.........(not because the road is the result of an unwanted pregnancy).......and thus they become the owners of the road, kerbing and pavement. OK....forget the pavement 'cos there isn't one; but if you dig down immediately behind the kerbstones you will very quickly hit something hard.......concrete in fact...... That's known as the haunch and it is part of the bed of concrete that the kerbs sit on; however the haunch rakes back and down at 45 degrees until it reachs the road sub-base.....concrete normally, so you can imagine the road and kerb is a lot wider than you can actually see..... .....that's why in most instances they own the verge so they can access kerbstones etc without trespass on your property.............if there aren't any kerbstones, the verge is there if they ever need to put them in. Although I appear to have a similar situation........kerb, no pavement, when I put the kerbing in I got the express approval of Highways to do it and that there is a detailed drawing which indicates in this instance that the verge is the other side of the kerb, so it looks like part of the road.............but it is a rural location and therefore it was vague anyway. AL
The easiest way of doing it, is to buy a single standard road kerb (might be referred to as a Figure 1 or Figure 7 pattern) which is about 900m to 1000mm long........., Lay it down on its side (so its flat) then get yourself a decent large diameter masonry drill (say, 16mm - 20mm....subject to whatever size bolting you will use) and drill the kerbstone. You have the option of drilling right through and using long bolts, nuts and washers; or shorter expanding bolts (sometimes called rag bolts); or resin filling the holes and inserting studs or whatever........... When its all done, just dig away the soil along the edge of the path to enough depth to cover the kersbstone laid parallel to the path, leaving the shackle or U bolt above the ground...........when you acquire the kerbstone, you will soon find out why it won't be going anywhere when you get it in place. AL
