[Talk-GB] UK use of highway=living_street

[David Woolley]

On 31/08/14 13:47, Rob Nickerson wrote:
> The one I saw the other day was a reasonably long loop road. It would
> expect it to either be maintained by the Local Authority or the Housing
> Association,

In my experience, housing association roads, created in the last decade 
or so, are most unlikely to be adopted.  As I said, there aren't really 
enough gradations of privacy, but, if unadopted, I would probably set 
them to highway=residential, access=destination, on the basis that there 
is an implied right to drive up to a house you are visiting, but the 
housing association won't want to pay for the wear and tear from the 
local driving instructor using them, so permissive would be too much. 
I'd reserve access=private for gated developments, ones with authorised 
vehicles only signs, and drives associated with blocks of flats. (The 
use of permissive that I'd agree with is private roads that are part of 
a tourist area and are expected to be used by tourists.)

Note that people can put up misleading signage implying that adopted 
roads are not public highways.