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Originally Posted by Royboy39
Yes they do and pay road tax for that, or is that a taboo subject as well?
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Road tax doesn't pay for local roads Roy. That's HBC and LCC combined. Most of road tax goes to Highways Agency for national road links, maintenance,disabled passes, police and emergency services, logistics maintenance and infrastructure (pipes, transport) and administration agencies DVLA blah, blah, blah.
It
is a sad situation for residents on unadopted roads ... a legacy of years ago, when there were no planning regulations, etc. Was up to the developer to install these roads initially and wouldn't happen now. LCC would then take over these roads for maintenance (not new lay).
Again though, the price of the property would reflect this, in order to allow the residents to have funds to bring it up to spec. to be adopted .
HBC are only offering to fill in the potholes to make it more acceptable, but I think waste of money, but Oh hem .. live and let live hey ?