Land registry and boundary dispute

DaftyDuck

Well done. A sensible approach by you, and the right result.

lois2409

My neighbour is a former land agent as is obsessed with ownership of his land. He owns a straight drive from the main road to our residential home and a 4 acre paddock that we own. We have right of way over the drive by either vehicle or foot to access our paddock and house. At the end of the drive there is a large timber farm gate that opens on to our paddock with a stile next to it. The gate is clearly the boundary of where his drive finishes and our paddock starts with the gate separating the two. We do not have a particularly good relationship with our neighbour due to previous problems over ownership of land, however I have just asked my gardener to paint our garden fence and the gate that opens into our field as we have regularly stained the gate during the 14 years we have lived here and the neighbour has never said anything to us. However, today we have received quite an abrupt email saying that he can’t believe we have painted his ‘Driveway Gate’ as he puts it without requesting his consent and we are to arrange to put it back to it’s former condition asap! He clearly believes the gate belongs to him, and if I’m honest I do not know who the gate belongs to other than, it opens on to our land, we have stained it over the years and having looked at the position of the gate, it appears that it is actually more on our paddock than his drive due to the gate posts being fitted on the back of our fence line so it appears to me that the gate is just on our land. We have not painted the fence some bright ridiculous colour but a deep forest green that actually compliments the area we live. I have checked the deeds and the only thing I can see is that the neighbour does have a right of way through the gate on to our paddock to gain access to another entrance to his land but this has never been used since we have lived here. Can anyone please advise how I can find out who actually owns the gate and / or whether the fact that it opens on to our land proves ownership to us. The gate was clearly erected before we bought the property and could well have been fitted by the neighbour. If this is the case, can he erect a gate (if he has) that opens on to our land and in my opinion sits within our boundary? If the gate is proven to belong to the neighbour, can we then enforce him to have it changed so it opens onto his drive as opposed to our land? Your advise and thoughts would be really appreciated.

moneyistooshorttomention

I would think you would be as well to start your own thread on this.

However, my first thoughts would tend to go along the lines of the gate wouldn't open onto your land unless it was your gate.

Can I suggest you start your own thread and see what further comments other posters might have?

stator

moved to other thread

lois2409

Thanks so much for your comments and I would love to start my own thread on this but sadly I do not know how to? I have only registered today and could not find out how to start a thread! If you can advise, I will certainly do this.
Thanks

Mojisola

lois2409 wrote: »

Thanks so much for your comments and I would love to start my own thread on this but sadly I do not know how to? I have only registered today and could not find out how to start a thread! If you can advise, I will certainly do this.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=16
Look for the "New Thread" button and click that.

lois2409

Thanks for sending the link. I have just started a new thread. Much appreciated