A relative's house is only accessible via an unadopted road, which due to potholes and neglect has now become completely impassable except to 4x4s. Ordnance Survey depict the road as being a 'public right of way - footpath', although it is becoming quite dangerous to pedestrians because 4x4s now fling up rocks and bricks as they bounce down the lane.
The landowner is Lord Sutch-and-sutch and he has never paid for the upkeep of the road and has refused to when asked in the past.
Is there any scope to force him to repair the road under the 1980 Highways Act?
"Statutory provision also enables the street works authority to require frontagers to undertake repairs if there is a danger to traffic in a private street. Where the frontagers fail to act as required the authority may execute the repairs itself and recover the costs from the frontagers."
https://tinyurl.com/yygkopql
The road in question only really has two frontagers along a short part of it (houses that need the road for access shown in red):
The landowner is Lord Sutch-and-sutch and he has never paid for the upkeep of the road and has refused to when asked in the past.
Is there any scope to force him to repair the road under the 1980 Highways Act?
"Statutory provision also enables the street works authority to require frontagers to undertake repairs if there is a danger to traffic in a private street. Where the frontagers fail to act as required the authority may execute the repairs itself and recover the costs from the frontagers."
https://tinyurl.com/yygkopql
The road in question only really has two frontagers along a short part of it (houses that need the road for access shown in red):
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