Lousy road condition

[bucksmanuk]

Hello all
If anyone has any pointers on this, it would be greatly appreciated.
The road outside my house is not in great shape, like many others in this fair Isle. The issue I have is that there is a (barely discernible to the naked eye) crack in the road, as well as some ripples in the tarmac. As the property is on a bus route, it’s a main road, so I get a fair amount of trucks going past as well. These ripples are causing some quite serious vibrations into my house. For reasons I am not entirely sure of, it’s worse at the back of the house than at the front. This is causing the plaster in the walls to have faint hairline cracks in, as well as around some of the windows.
I know houses move over time, but some cracks that were hairline and about 25 mm long for 10 years are now 1 mm wide and 200 mm long in 12 months.
I can borrow some very serious noise and vibration measuring equipment from work and get values for it all, but if there are no guidelines as to what’s acceptable, it’s all academic.
I have contacted my local councillor, who passed it onto the roads department, I received a “thanks -we’ll look into it” and 3 months later I have contacted him again and (surprise surprise) nothing.
Are there any legalities regarding this?
Nigel

[Team 17]

Maybe worth contacting your local newspaper to get things moving.

[philmots]

Would this not be something you could mention to your home insurance, let them chase them up about it?

[Condi]

If you can prove that its the councils fault then yes. They were made aware of the problem and didnt fix it. Trying to get them to admit fault or prove it through court might be nigh on impossible though.

[m3jappa]

There is little to no chance its buses and lorries causing cracks. Probably more due to the heat we have had the last couple of months.