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What we do

Private Roads Services Ltd ("PRS") provides services to residents' associations and companies responsible for private roads and estates in England and Wales.

We offer our own insurance scheme, a book on the law, extensive online resources for members, and a "starter pack" for residents seeking to form an association or company.

Starter pack


Starting an association or company

A private road or estate needs an active residents' association or management company to look after the road, protect the interests of residents and guard against costly and damaging legal disputes.

If your road doesn't have one, don't panic! We can help.

Just send for our Starter Pack. You'll receive:

  • A copy of Private Roads: The Legal Framework (4th ed.) This is the definitive guide to the law, written for residents associations, management companies and others concerned with private roads. Its approach is clear and practical and it provides a comprehensive explanation of the issues affecting private roads and estates.
  • A step-by-step guide to what you need to do and why.
  • Helpful precedents, on CD, including model rules for an association, and memorandum and articles of association for a company, and model letters.

Once you've formed a residents' association or company you can upgrade to membership of PRS: the cost of the Starter Pack can be deducted from your first year's membership fee. Joining PRS will help you to look after your road in the longer term, and to save money.

To order our Starter Pack, please send a cheque for £55, payable to Private Roads Services Ltd, to:

Private Roads Services Ltd
Barnwell Farm
Station Road
Bicester
Bucks
OX27 0HN

Under the "Distance Selling" Regulations*, you can return the Starter Pack within 14 days if you are not satisfied with it, and claim a full refund; though you must pay the return postage (2nd class is fine). This doesn't affect your other legal rights. Please note that our Starter Pack is sold subject to our Terms and Conditions.

Copyright: please note. Our Starter Pack is for use only in one specified private road or private estate. For this reason we don't sell copies to firms of solicitors, estate agents or surveyors, developers or other organisations with a wider need. When you place your order, please let us know the name and postcode of the road in question and how many properties there are in the road.

* The Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 200, SI 2000/2334, as amended by SI 2005/689.



Last Updated: 29 February 2012


  • Copyright

    Please remember that the material in these pages is copyright.  Our Terms and Conditions, in our public pages, explain what material can be copied, and what can be retained if you decide not to continue with PRS membership.

    Briefly:

    1. Newsletters, chapters of MPRE and other material can be downloaded and printed off for future reference.  We strongly recommend that it be kept together, in a suitable folder.

    2. Material can be copied to committee members/directors individually where there is a particular need (but not routinely).

    3. We will usually give consent, without charge, for brief extracts to be copied more widely - e.g. in your own newsletter to residents.  Please contact us first:  we will need to know what is to be copied, when, and to whom.

    4. Law and practice can change rapidly, and we amend and update the material on this site regularly, so there's much to be said for consulting PRS material online rather than downloading it.




  • More information

    Please see our FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) pages for more information about:

    1. Private roads and estates
    2. Our insurance scheme
    3. How we can help residents' associations and companies