Access to school field?

John_Pierpoint

You wake up one morning and "your" access has been cut by a deep ditch and razor wire, how many £10,000 are you prepared to spend fighting the developer of what is now a multi million pound site?

It would be worth gathering a sworn statement now from a couple of elderly but not old old upstanding local citizens. It is a shame someone did not take a photo of themselves reading a prominent easily recognised local newspaper, framed by the gateway and then mailed it to themselves in a signed sealed and delivered registered envelope, 20 years ago. If nothing else you would more than get your legal costs back from as a ransom from the new land owner of the field.

If you kick off a legal dispute now, you won't endear yourself to your new neighbours and I cannot see the Land Registry agreeing to register your rights if they do not already exist.
Have you checked the rights and obligations of the land you are buying at the Land Registry, it only costs a few quid and quite frankly I would do that before even driving 50 miles to look at a potential purchase.

Bring back the HIP.

QTPie

Errrrr, am I missing something?

andy.m_2

We had a similar thing in our first house...

At the rear of the garden was a gate to a school playing field, we basically recieved confirmation that although we could use the access, we had no right to it.
Our solicitor wexplained that although we could carry on using the gate, at any time that right could be taken away from us and we couldn't challange it.