New build and public right of way through the house!

eddddy

PasturesNew wrote: »

People will still have the right to walk through your house whenever they knock on the door .... night or day. Indeed, some local walkers who are keen to see that these ROWs aren't stolen might actively start bringing walking groups through your house just because they have that right.

FWIW, I know a farmer who built a house across a ROW. And he then had a few walkers knocking on his lounge window asking to be let through.

He 'solved' the problem by moving or removing landmarks shown on the OS map - e.g. pulling up a hedge, moving field boundaries.

The ROW followed a field boundary, so by moving the field boundary by 25 metres, he convinced people that the ROW was actually 25 metres away from his house. He tells me that his plan worked eventually.

AnotherJoe

Very interesting but of no practical use to the OP

OP you need to decide what you want which practically would seem to be limited to two choices, either another unaffected house on the same scheme, or compensation, and then ask for that.

Ask for the former, expect the latter unless the unaffected houses are not much more money. Don’t expect £50k off the price for example.

EachPenny

eddddy wrote: »

FWIW, I know a farmer who built a house across a ROW. And he then had a few walkers knocking on his lounge window asking to be let through.

He 'solved' the problem by moving or removing landmarks shown on the OS map - e.g. pulling up a hedge, moving field boundaries.

The ROW followed a field boundary, so by moving the field boundary by 25 metres, he convinced people that the ROW was actually 25 metres away from his house. He tells me that his plan worked eventually.

Unless a stopping up or diversion order is made though the original route will still exist. If there is no order then what this farmer has done in to run the risk of having two parallel PROW's crossing his land if the 'new' one becomes an established PROW by use.

Davesnave

eddddy wrote: »

FWIW, I know a farmer who built a house across a ROW. And he then had a few walkers knocking on his lounge window asking to be let through.

He 'solved' the problem by moving or removing landmarks shown on the OS map - e.g. pulling up a hedge, moving field boundaries.

The ROW followed a field boundary, so by moving the field boundary by 25 metres, he convinced people that the ROW was actually 25 metres away from his house. He tells me that his plan worked eventually.

It's not so easy to do that sort of thing now that the Rural Payments Agency has satellite imagery that makes Google Earth look like a bad cartoon.

For example, a few years ago, I decided to divide my hen orchard using nothing more than some black polypropylene netting and 75mm fence posts. It's really not something that draws the eye and it's almost invisible from a distance.

Imagine my surprise when I last viewed the mapping system the RPA uses, to find that my very flimsy fence had been duly added to the plan of my holding!

aneary

Any update? Did you manage to get another plot?

CarlyE

We are waiting for a response through the legal channels from the developers still. Gone slightly quiet. Fingers crossed tomorrow
Might bring some explanations or solutions.

moneyistooshorttomention

Davesnave wrote: »

It's not so easy to do that sort of thing now that the Rural Payments Agency has satellite imagery that makes Google Earth look like a bad cartoon.

For example, a few years ago, I decided to divide my hen orchard using nothing more than some black polypropylene netting and 75mm fence posts. It's really not something that draws the eye and it's almost invisible from a distance.

Imagine my surprise when I last viewed the mapping system the RPA uses, to find that my very flimsy fence had been duly added to the plan of my holding!

That got me googling - and I couldnt find the Rural Payments Agency satellite imagery stuff. But I did find Zoom Earth website and was duly looking down onto my property from above. Just couldnt figure out how to make it higher resolution/whether that was possible.

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

That got me googling - and I couldnt find the Rural Payments Agency satellite imagery stuff. But I did find Zoom Earth website and was duly looking down onto my property from above. Just couldnt figure out how to make it higher resolution/whether that was possible.

It's not a great idea to make things easier for burglars, terrorists et al. The implication of my post was that satellite imagery is far more sophisticated than anything the public can access.

The RPA produces maps of land use/field divisions etc, even for people like me who won't engage with them! These won't show you anything very interesting. It means, however, that farmers can't do anything significant with their land without Big Brother seeing the changes.

Slinky

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

But I did find Zoom Earth website and was duly looking down onto my property from above. Just couldnt figure out how to make it higher resolution/whether that was possible.

There's a slider on the right hand side you can drag up and down to zoom in and out.

Resolutions do vary a bit though, our current house is clearer than our new one which seems to have been taken from higher up.

Although it says updated daily, it's obviously not everything every day. There's new building going on in our village. The build state shown on the current image suggests it's around 4-5 years ago.

LandyAndy

Slinky wrote: »

There's a slider on the right hand side you can drag up and down to zoom in and out.

Resolutions do vary a bit though, our current house is clearer than our new one which seems to have been taken from higher up.

Although it says updated daily, it's obviously not everything every day. There's new building going on in our village. The build state shown on the current image suggests it's around 4-5 years ago.

Yes, the view of my house is at least 4 years old.