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  From: David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  To  : John Edwards <isplist@pinnacle.net.au>
  Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 10:09:42 +1030

Re: Broadband options in SA (was Re: ADSL talk suggestion)

John!

> One street where friends lived had a gas line replaced, which involved
> wrecking a number of driveways and digging up neat lawns. They got it
> wrong, and dug it up again a few months later. Once proud homeowners on
> that side of the street let their gardens go wild and their lawns fill
> with weeds because there was no point maintaining them anymore. I'd
> consider that ugly.

Yes it is ugly, however there are a few points:

1)
I've forgotten whether it's a common bylaw, part of legislative law or
common law but the verge ALWAYS belongs to the Council and not the owner

2)
There is a law which specifies that the owner of the house shall keep
the verge in reasonable condition

Now, if someone actually got organised and formed a petition to the
council and/or the utilities to have them financially reimburse them for
damage caused by such digging up we might get somewhere. There's no
point in sulking because someone has wrecked your lawn - better to do
something about it...

DL
-- 
Are you:
 - waiting for rigor mortis to set on?
 - or waiting for Santa Claus to arrive?
 (see Eric Berne, Beyond Games and Scripts)

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