Road Maintenance Adopted Or Unadopted Road | Friday Q&A [ Video #19 ]

Jonathan Rolande from housebuyfast.co.uk answers your property related questions in our weekly Friday Q&A video.
Question: Road Maintenance Adopted Or Unadopted Road.
Who has taken responsibility of the road maintenance for Brigadier Drive?
The next one is from lenny1986, so adopted or unadopted road. Who's taking responsibility of road maintenance for brigadier drive. Now I am afraid I don't know individual roads, but what I am able to say to you is that you can look for clues with any road to find out if it's adopted or unadopted.
Adopted means that the council, local authorities look after it. Unadopted means that it's in effect a private road that residents will all contribute to maintaining. So look to see if there are any council road signs on the road and also things like tarmac that they've used is similar to surrounding roads or if it has a different surface gravel or something like that.
If it is gravel or there is no street sign chances are that it is a private road. You'll want to have a word with people in the area to see what the arrangements are, of course ultimately your solicitor will be able to look on the deeds and find out exactly the arrangements. If there is doubt about what it is you can always take out insurances to cover you if anything goes wrong called indemnity insurances and your solicitor will tell you more about those.
One word of caution for unadopted roads and private roads you are sometimes responsible for things like water, gas pipes and electricity cables that run under that road and so if something goes wrong with them the electricity or utility company may not necessarily pay for the repair because it's under private property in effect, they may look to the residents of the street to pay for example a new drain to be fitted so it is just something to be cautious of. So I hope that helps and there is a few clues there to finding out who does actually own brigadier drive.
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