ferreting alongside road

[hound 1]

Believe it or not I made a phone call and have actually spoken to a human. This lead me to also sending an E-mail .Nothing like belt and braces . Either way I am now awaiting some sort of clarification from the Highways Agency. Remember ,whatever answer they come back with it will only apply to motorway banks . Most trunk road verges remain in private hands or under the control of local councils.

If I do get a response I shall pass it on .

 

i to would like to know the out come as i use to work for a firm called kestrel pest control and we had the contract with the highways agency on the m4,m3,A303,A3,A34,A27,M27 etc and we use to do a hell of alot of ferreting on these embankments when farmers complain to the highways we use to respond to the callout, if the warrens were on either side of the fence the cost was split. Bearing the mind the amount of courses i had to go on and all the red tape we had to go through was unbelivable. Also on every job TM (traffic managment) had to be in place. so i would assume joe bloggs would not be able to ferret on motorways and A roads these are also the only roads the highways agency look after. other roads come under council departments

Sorry to rejuvenate this thread at so late a date but as promised here is an update .

Basically "hound" is right . No Joe blogs can ferret along Motorways and A roads without permission and training .

 

 

I've spoken to some very helpfull people at the HA who, considering the amount of work they must have on at the moment ,were nothing but generous with their time.

 

 

 

They have no hard and fast policy on rabbit control.

 

Each case brought to their attention is subject to surveys by "Network Stewards" and Environmental Operatives and as "hound " infers no -one who has not undergone safety training to a standard required by the local area Manager may carry out any procedure on the embankments or other HA controlled land..

 

The HA have their own list of contractors for this work .

 

Most importantly ,their is no 15ft area of free access for boundary rabbit control by Landowners or their representatives .

 

Perhaps the National Ferreters Register were being optimistic or relying on bad advice. It has been made plain to me by the HA that case decisions are taken an individual and regional basis and no organisation or individual has carte-blanche to enter their land for rabbit control.

comanche

the highways agency as you say is split into areas these are then sent out to tender the area i mentioned is called area 3 which is run by eneterprise mischal who are a very large feclites company. the m25 is area 1 which balfour beatty.they get these tenders for x amount of years. it is then down to the company who they then sub out the work if they carnt do it in house ie pest control.

Edited January 11, 2010 by hound