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The grass verge

  • 05-01-2010 4:05pm
    #1
    racso1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭


    Out for a drive last night and noticed a house with fenced garden. There is a grass verge in front of the fence. At the edge where the grass meets the road is row of large granite stood this is to stop cars parking there i presume. Just wondering as this is on a bad bend if i skidde into the verge and damaged my car due to these stones Would i have any sort of come back


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  • #2
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    racso1975 wrote: »
    Out for a drive last night and noticed a house with fenced garden. There is a grass verge in front of the fence. At the edge where the grass meets the road is row of large granite stood this is to stop cars parking there i presume. Just wondering as this is on a bad bend if i skidde into the verge and damaged my car due to these stones Would i have any sort of come back
    I'd imagine it depends on exactly where the garden ends and the road begins.


  • #3
    Padraig Mor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,610 ✭✭✭Padraig Mor


    Ìf I'm correct (and maybe I'm not) these verges beyond fences, walls etc are a requirement of planning permission - precisely so that cars can use them if required. Placing obstructions on them is illegal and dangerous.


  • #4
    homer simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,852 ✭✭✭homer simpson


    As far as i am aware it would be whoever hits his stones might have to replace his stones as his stones are not on the road but on his property. same thing as hitting a fence or wall, someone i know took to somones grass to avoid an approaching car and didn't see said stones, he dragged one of the sones under his car bust his sump and destroyed a good bit of the mans grass (outside fence) the guards said he was responcable for the damage to grass and stones saying he had to fix it.

    and the morale of the story is don't pull in unless its 100% safe to do so, ie. not onto someones grass or onto a grass verge.


  • #5
    AdyDurn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭AdyDurn


    homer_simpson wrote: »
    ... someone i know took to somones grass to avoid an approaching car

    <snip>

    and the morale of the story is don't pull in unless its 100% safe to do so, ie. not onto someones grass or onto a grass verge.

    Hmm, I would assume though he'd rather that than hit an oncoming car? Or do you mean he was merely using at a passing place on a very slow road?


  • #6
    homer simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,852 ✭✭✭homer simpson


    AdyDurn wrote: »
    Hmm, I would assume though he'd rather that than hit an oncoming car? Or do you mean he was merely using at a passing place on a very slow road?

    the car coming the other way was "flying" (according to him) and he had to pull in as the other car wouldn't have got stopped, if it was me i'd have made the person speeding to pull in by standing my ground. it was on a back road on a slight corner but the lawn/verge goes the whole way around the corner.


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  • #7
    Delta Kilo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Delta Kilo


    You don't own that strip of land outside your wall.It is a planning requirement to leave a certain distance which I forget between the edge of the road and your wall. This is in case the council ever need to widen the road in the future, basically.

    So technically you don't own that piece of land and have no right to place stones etc on it to stop people pulling in. If you were that worried about your new tarmac getting damaged then you shouldn't have tarmaced it in the first place! It really annoys me when I see this when meeting a car on a narrow road!


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