Shared Driveway Question

Jhoney_2

You never know, parking for OPs 4+ cars may make the figure acceptable. May be economical too as you have to consider parking meter fees, car tax obligations, security of possessions/ insurance premiums etc etc....

LittleMax

chris_m wrote: »

We had a rubber dinghy, a couple of tents and a caravan which we took to France each summer - do those count?

Being in the House Buying/Renting/Selling forum I read that as couple of tenants - and thought what a generous, weird landlord :rotfl:

LittleMax

If the neighbour doesn't use the shared driveway at all, why not just use it to park on whilst you need it, but leave ownership and access rights as it is?

moneyistooshorttomention

LittleMax wrote: »

If the neighbour doesn't use the shared driveway at all, why not just use it to park on whilst you need it, but leave ownership and access rights as it is?

Not a wise idea - I expect that shared driveway counts as a Right of Way and its not allowed to block ROWs.

It would be entirely possible that neighbour apparently never used it - but had some one-off occasions where they had decided to do so and were unable to (ie because OP was parked there) and they decided "Two can play that game" and blocked the entrance end of the driveway.

Waterlily24

I certainly wouldn't sell my rights for someone else to use the driveway. Many years ago our first house had a shared driveway, we didn't live there at the time as we were renovating it. Got there one day to find a car parked between the two houses. At the time we were expecting stuff to be delivered so needed the driveway to be clear. Asked the neighbour to move it but the lady said her hubby was away and she didn't have the keys. They were just getting divorced and he didn't come back for over a month. Made things very difficult for us.

After that hubby put a paved car standing in our front garden, we had actually built a garage in the back garden for our car so needed access.

Mallotum_X

Everything is available for a price. Just depends on how much you want it compared to how much the neighbour wants it.

You need to talk to them. If they are not interested then everything else is irrelevant.

Not the same but we bought part of a neighbours garden, knew he didnt use it, went round and asked and agreed to buy it there and then. We paid all the legal fees for both (he was happy with same solicitor) and fortunately no mortgage company for him to have to check with. Go and have a chat with them.

LittleMax

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Not a wise idea - I expect that shared driveway counts as a Right of Way and its not allowed to block ROWs.

It would be entirely possible that neighbour apparently never used it - but had some one-off occasions where they had decided to do so and were unable to (ie because OP was parked there) and they decided "Two can play that game" and blocked the entrance end of the driveway.

I did mean the OP to ask the neighbour first. It sounds as though the neighbour doesn't have any cars that they park on the drive at all. They may not have a problem with OP using it to park on.

zagubov

Very little chance, I'd imagine. Our first house had a shared driveway with the BTL next door. Gave both houses access to garages at the back.

The students the landlord rented to next door would park in the driveway and ignore polite requests to move it until they realised that two could play at that game and we could park in front of them. Access to the back garden was really valuable to us and their landlord.

We'd never have given it up or sold it, and I suspect the OP's neighbours will want a pretty penny to sell this valuable asset.