We were meant to be closing on a house next week and drawing down funds tomorrow. The contracts were signed subject to a letter from the council stating that the roads and services were in charge. The vendors solicitor suggested that they were but it turns out they aren't according to the council. The estate is older than me, so the developer is long gone, and there is no management company. So everything is on hold.
The vendors solicitor is currently investigating it. However the whole thing seems really odd to me. There are stop signs and road markings in the estate. When there is a water outage and the council post on facebook they will include this estate if its also out. There are also some of those yellow H signs and the white SV signs for marking things. There are street lights in the estate, with the stickers on them labeling them like ones used by the council, and I can also go on the councils website right now and report a fault for any of these street lights because they are marked as covered on the website.
Is it possible that the council might have made a mistake in saying this estate is not in charge? The estate is in really good condition, I doubt the residents are paying for all this, its less than 10 houses and in the middle of the town. The current owners have no idea who pays for it.
The vendors solicitor is currently investigating it. However the whole thing seems really odd to me. There are stop signs and road markings in the estate. When there is a water outage and the council post on facebook they will include this estate if its also out. There are also some of those yellow H signs and the white SV signs for marking things. There are street lights in the estate, with the stickers on them labeling them like ones used by the council, and I can also go on the councils website right now and report a fault for any of these street lights because they are marked as covered on the website.
Is it possible that the council might have made a mistake in saying this estate is not in charge? The estate is in really good condition, I doubt the residents are paying for all this, its less than 10 houses and in the middle of the town. The current owners have no idea who pays for it.
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