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House situated on a farmers track, local authority+police no teeth
Hi, I live in Lincolnshire and our house is situated down a track. This track is owned by the farmers who lives further up the lane. The lane itself is a public highway and a no through road. These farmers are well known for their lack of thoughtlessness to all of us that live around their land. There are two houses down the track (us and a neighbour) and further at the end of the no through road is a house there. The farmers have it seems used the road as if it were theirs. The road is a one-vehicle rural road. They do not clean the road at any time at all unless asked several times. The road is now in a complete mess, and this is mud and slurry along with a very broken potholed road, which is mainly due to their usage. I ride a motorbike and I cannot always use the road, therefore I have been inconvenienced many times, by cancelling appointments or just cancelling a ride out. Do they care? After my conversation with one of the farm owners (owned by two brothers), I felt more threatened than at ease with the situation. I wrote down as much as I could remember straight after the man left. The police have told me that my situation does not warrant their help and to ask the farmers to clear the road. The council are no better either. We go on fix my street every week to complain and nothing gets done. Although they have said it is due for repair. We were given a date between November 25th to Dec 12th 2018.
I love my bike and I love to go out as a sufferer of deep depression my bike gives me relief from my chronic pain world. Sorry, the meeting with the farmer. He didn't want to take responsibility for the mud, as he said it was the local authorities job to ensure the drainage to the ditches was their job. And that the mud, when cleaned up with the brushes would just go to the sides. Therefore it wasn't worth their time doing it. All of our cars are thick with mud and our cars are being constantly repaired. For these, the authority gets a bill and they are supposed to pay for the damage. I recently put in a request for payment as my £200 motorcycle boots now were useless as I had to keep my feet on the ground to stop me falling. My bike is heavy and trying to control it on two wheels on mud and grit is horrendous.
So there is my problem. I need to know what the law is with regard to the mud as the authorities do not want to deal with it. And my guess they have had enough dealings with these farmers they want no more to do with them. And what rights do we have living down a track that allows us to live in our homes? We own our land and home, but we don't own the track/road. The farmers want us to pay for repairing the track and they would lay it. Well, this has been done before and later when the farmer needs to get to the land their machinery tears it all up and they won't repair it.
These are nasty farmers. I await your replies.
I love my bike and I love to go out as a sufferer of deep depression my bike gives me relief from my chronic pain world. Sorry, the meeting with the farmer. He didn't want to take responsibility for the mud, as he said it was the local authorities job to ensure the drainage to the ditches was their job. And that the mud, when cleaned up with the brushes would just go to the sides. Therefore it wasn't worth their time doing it. All of our cars are thick with mud and our cars are being constantly repaired. For these, the authority gets a bill and they are supposed to pay for the damage. I recently put in a request for payment as my £200 motorcycle boots now were useless as I had to keep my feet on the ground to stop me falling. My bike is heavy and trying to control it on two wheels on mud and grit is horrendous.
So there is my problem. I need to know what the law is with regard to the mud as the authorities do not want to deal with it. And my guess they have had enough dealings with these farmers they want no more to do with them. And what rights do we have living down a track that allows us to live in our homes? We own our land and home, but we don't own the track/road. The farmers want us to pay for repairing the track and they would lay it. Well, this has been done before and later when the farmer needs to get to the land their machinery tears it all up and they won't repair it.
These are nasty farmers. I await your replies.
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