ABOUT WURA
Who we are?
The Welcomes and Uplands Road Association is an unincorporated not-for-profit body run by volunteers, although the day to day administration of the Association has become so onerous and complex that honoraria are paid to the Secretary and Treasurer.
The main purpose of the Road Association is to maintain Welcomes and Uplands Roads, making it distinct from a typical Residents Association.If you need to get in touch with WURA, please get in touch via our contact form.
Why does WURA exist?
In order to maintain the roads and to keep them in a reasonable state of repair, an annual road levy is charged to frontagers. The obligation to pay a road levy in most cases is covenanted in the deeds to the relative frontaging property. Where the obligation is not specifically in the deeds ‘the doctrine of benefit and burden’ was established in the Law Courts during 1957 and reaffirmed in the Court of Appeal in 2013 and supports unequivocably an obligation to pay for the use of the roads concerned. People living in the spur roads generate traffic over WURA maintained roads and if those roads were not maintained sufficiently, their properties would be unreachable by the emergency services, refuse collection lorries or other delivery traffic. In fairness to the majority who pay for the upkeep of the roads, people living on the spur roads though not covenanted to do so, also need to pay their way.
OUR COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Unincorporated not-for-profit body run and by volunteers in the main. However, an honoraria is now paid to the Secretary and to the Treasurer due to the increased work load in recent years.
PETER KNIGHT
Secretary
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COLIN BROWN
Chairman
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JAN SCULLY
Treasurer
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Other committee members
Sharon Godfrey, Nazia Abidi, Toby Godfrey, Richard Russell, Stuart Prior