Advice on a neighbours path

melanzana

Post your photo to a host site like Flickr etc. and then copy and paste the photo to here.

AndyMc.....

Cats_are_great wrote: »

Hiya, he claimed to my other neighbour that the blue foot access area goes all the way across the drive to the front of his lawn; it definitely doesn't....wish I knew how to add a photo I'm a bit rubbish at this TBH

Use tinypic.com

It'll convert your photo into a link.

Head_The_Ball

Cats_are_great wrote: »

....Myself and the other neighbour are unhappy about this as we suspect people will walk up our drive to gain access to the house, it is right in front of where I park my car.....I think they are trying to extend their rights and if the path is laid......

Can you park your car on your drive in a place that will block off their proposed path without inconveniencing yourself or your other neighbour?

Doing that now might make the 'difficult' neighbour rethink spending money on something that you can easily block.

Cats_are_great

Head_The_Ball wrote: »

Can you park your car on your drive in a place that will block off their proposed path without inconveniencing yourself or your other neighbour?

Doing that now might make the 'difficult' neighbour rethink spending money on something that you can easily block.

That is just what my shared drive neighbour and I spoke about today....I am calling our local planning dept. Tomorrow but I think it's worth a go.

It's so stressful x

Davesnave

Cats_are_great wrote: »

That is just what my shared drive neighbour and I spoke about today....I am calling our local planning dept. Tomorrow but I think it's worth a go.

It's so stressful x

Your local planning dept won't be interested in where he puts a footpath. As it isn't going to be on their property, or interfere with the highways, it's none of their concern.

Stressful or not, you (and your neighbour, if they're involved) have to deal with this yourselves. You have all the title plans, so show them to this person and make it clear that they can only obtain access by the designated route.

Whether you do this over tea and biscuits or in a more formal way is up to you, but the neighbour needs to know clearly that this path isn't going where they intend, before it is constructed. Land Registry title plans and documents are pretty hard to argue with.

littlerock

My sister had a similar problem. Neighbour took in a strip from the side of her front garden, while she was on holiday, to make a path through to his back garden. When she objected, he claimed the path he had created had existed recently (within about 7 years) and my sister had recently rerouted it to take over his land. This was all complete rubbish. Not only was it not on either set of deeds, but other local neighbours were willing to verify that the alternative path he had created, never existed. His deeds were clear but he wanted to do it so he chose not to believe them. Sister sent copy of deeds with solicitor's letter explaining the legal situation. Said she planned to put her garden frontage back. All gone quiet now.

There is of course nothing to stop you building a fence in front of his new gate, on your own land.