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Benoire

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#3415463 16-Sep-2025 19:21

My experience is that often the maintenance work may not have considered the need to plane off the existing surface before putting a new one down. This leads to a build up of seal at the channel and changes the shape of the road including increased crossfalls etc. Can the OP describe the road surface, is it asphalt or chipseal?

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#3415470 16-Sep-2025 20:06

A few photos could help.

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#3415523 17-Sep-2025 08:26

Is it possible write this up as a health & safety issue. Is it a potential trip or tip hazard that could lead to people falling onto the road.
In my personal experience when you describe a health & safety issue with predicted outcomes it will get sorted

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#3423766 10-Oct-2025 20:57

@Willie123 Maybe a bit too soon to ask, but would be very interested to know whether you have been able to make any progress.

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#3441206 8-Dec-2025 07:23

@Willie123 Still very interested to know how you got on with this.

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#3441527 8-Dec-2025 14:00

It’s been a battle I’ve finally given up on. Dealing with useless and obstructive council staff, who don’t return calls or answer questions, has worn me out.
A complicating factor is that the previous owners who built the house didn’t apply for a vehicle crossing permit for the driveway access, which the council are using as an excuse to not do anything, even though their subsequent road resurfacing has caused the problem. Doesn’t matter that the building consent issued has specific details of the proposed crossing.

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#3441530 8-Dec-2025 14:05

Willie123:

It’s been a battle I’ve finally given up on. Dealing with useless and obstructive council staff, who don’t return calls or answer questions, has worn me out.
A complicating factor is that the previous owners who built the house didn’t apply for a vehicle crossing permit for the driveway access, which the council are using as an excuse to not do anything, even though their subsequent road resurfacing has caused the problem. Doesn’t matter that the building consent issued has specific details of the proposed crossing.

Ah - very sorry to hear that. Not what we wanted to hear at all.

Given the highlighted part, are you inclined to take to it the Disputes Tribunal?

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#3441531 8-Dec-2025 14:05

eracode:

Ah - very sorry to hear that. Not what we wanted to hear at all.

No - and I'm sorry that the Council has taken the view around the vehicle crossing. It is unfrotunate but the building consent process has no obligation to look beyond the land boundary, and in my experience in Auckland, it does not and leaves a whole load of mess behind (I'm looking at you wellesley street due to the convention centre and also Les Mills). The details for the vxg would have been assessed more carefully by the road design space in the Council and generally a license issued from that space under the Local Government Act.

I would, if you haven't already, take it up politically.. Our councillors in Auckland love things like this as they do enjoy sticking the boot in to beauracry.

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