Imagine you live in a road/lane which is not adopted by the local council and has no street lighting, no pavements, no proper drainage, is full of potholes etc. You pay, along with your close neighbours, to have the road surface renewed when it gets too bad and your car frequently gets damaged.
Why should you pay the same council tax as someone who has all the advantages of an adopted road?
2007-03-09 06:35:21 · 5 answers · asked by Rozzy 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
PS: I am not talking about 'private' roads whose upkeep is the responsibility of the people who live there.
2007-03-10 04:19:23 · update #1
Neither am I talking about road tax.
I was attempting to refer to 'community charge' - obviously this was unclear.
The roads I refer to are public roads/lanes used by many people each day, on foot and in every vehicle you could think of, except public transport vehicles.
2007-03-10 07:40:15 · update #2
the simple answer is yes, you choose to live where you live and generally houses on private streets are cheaper than those on adopted ones. Your council tax provides for all the local services you do use, unless you never leave your private road you use thousands of miles of other roads.
2007-03-09 07:38:43 · answer #1 · answered by grahamralph2000 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
In principal road tax pays for roads and the council gets grants from the government to do this.You dont need to display road tax on an unadopted road .Many of the most expensive houses in the country are accessed by private unadopted roads and they pay the biggest council tax.
2007-03-10 07:20:00 · answer #2 · answered by frankturk50 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the road is not private but remains unadopted that usually means the council is in dispute with whoever constructed the road(or sub contractors).
You need to contact your local council and find out why your road has never been adopted.
2007-03-12 13:14:27 · answer #3 · answered by noeusuperstate 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Presumably you knew you had responsibility for the road when you bought the house and if it damages your car that really is your (and your neighbours) problem. Your council tax pays for maintenance of all the other roads you drive on though.
If you go down your line of thinking, why should people without kids pay council tax for education, and why not make the families of those needing social care pay for it themselves, instead of us all doing it?
2007-03-09 07:41:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
sure , in case you want roads, colleges, highway lamps, ... and in case your highway is a issue you are able to telephone your councilor and they can turn your issue right into a bill at a council assembly.
2016-12-05 11:29:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋