New build and public right of way through the house!

Davesnave

Zoom Earth is the same as Bing and it's more up to date than Google Earth, but still pre-December 2013 here.

NaughtiusMaximus

Davesnave wrote: »

Zoom Earth is the same as Bing and it's more up to date than Google Earth, but still pre-December 2013 here.

It doesn't zoom as far as Bing though.

Just zoomed in as far as I can on Bing and I can see the picture of our old house was taken in 2005!! I can tell as a car I bought in that year is on the drive and my old one is parked in the back garden, there was an overlap of around a month when I owned both.

LandyAndy

Davesnave wrote: »

Zoom Earth is the same as Bing and it's more up to date than Google Earth, but still pre-December 2013 here.

Google Earth (I presume that is the satellite view on Google Maps) was recently updated here. It's around June of this year. I can see my new building and redesigned garden. :T

daveyjp

Planet Labs satellites photograph the whole earth every day. Unfortunately it isn’t free.

EachPenny

Davesnave wrote: »

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.

I grew up in part of the country where there were many 'secret' MoD facilities, often carefully screened with trees and fences to keep prying eyes out. Photography was also banned of course.

Now the intimate details of these sites are available to anyone with an internet connection, but I'm sure the Russians will have far better pictures for their own use, and probably did so 60 years ago

The images available freely online are great, but much better is available to those willing to pay.

And those 'willing to pay' extends to councils for their highway departments (as well as planning and building control. :eek:)

HouseMouse

fwiw, some LAs are less than helpful concerning ROW.

There is (was...) a ROW running alongside my rear fence, across some "spare land" which adjoins a farm. A neighbour fenced off a 10 metre wide strip of the land that abuts 3 gardens, including mine, at some point in the 1980's, and so has now acquired this land through adverse possession. This effectively prevents me from accessing the ROW from my own rear garden, There has always been a gate in the rear fence, ever since the house was built. On several occasions during the 1980's & 1990's he attempted to block the footpath, but was challenged each time, until about 12 years ago. This time he erected a more sturdy fence so I complained again. At this point the LA told me that I was wrong about the route of the POW. They have compounded the issue by replacing signposts so they point to an incorrect route that now skirts round his "garden" rather than through it, and stopped cutting back the shrubs & brambles that have grown wild over the last 20-30 years, so preventing access to the original path. There have never been any consultations about having the footpath diverted.

I'm in 2 minds about whether to complain again - at a higher level if necessary - or wait until he applies for planning permission for the inevitable extension. Unfortunately I can't see him selling up & moving on in the foreseeable future.

moneyistooshorttomention

EachPenny wrote: »

I grew up in part of the country where there were many 'secret' MoD facilities, often carefully screened with trees and fences to keep prying eyes out. Photography was also banned of course.

Now the intimate details of these sites are available to anyone with an internet connection, but I'm sure the Russians will have far better pictures for their own use, and probably did so 60 years ago

The images available freely online are great, but much better is available to those willing to pay.

And those 'willing to pay' extends to councils for their highway departments (as well as planning and building control. :eek:)

:rotfl:You mean the ones we all darn soon got told about back in the 1980s when we were getting shot of Cruise missiles. So much for secret:rotfl:

moneyistooshorttomention

HouseMouse wrote: »

fwiw, some LAs are less than helpful concerning ROW.

There is (was...) a ROW running alongside my rear fence, across some "spare land" which adjoins a farm. A neighbour fenced off a 10 metre wide strip of the land that abuts 3 gardens, including mine, at some point in the 1980's, and so has now acquired this land through adverse possession. This effectively prevents me from accessing the ROW from my own rear garden, There has always been a gate in the rear fence, ever since the house was built. On several occasions during the 1980's & 1990's he attempted to block the footpath, but was challenged each time, until about 12 years ago. This time he erected a more sturdy fence so I complained again. At this point the LA told me that I was wrong about the route of the POW. They have compounded the issue by replacing signposts so they point to an incorrect route that now skirts round his "garden" rather than through it, and stopped cutting back the shrubs & brambles that have grown wild over the last 20-30 years, so preventing access to the original path. There have never been any consultations about having the footpath diverted.

I'm in 2 minds about whether to complain again - at a higher level if necessary - or wait until he applies for planning permission for the inevitable extension. Unfortunately I can't see him selling up & moving on in the foreseeable future.

In this case - maybe you'd be best off "going higher". It sounds like he maybe "knows someone that knows someone" scenario. There are areas of the country where one has to "go higher" because decisions made locally aren't objective/logical ones for some strange reason....:cool:. I've been gobsmacked at watching how biased some decision-making around me has been.

AnotherJoe

Getting back on topic, there are a lot of complaints about solicitors/ conveyancers on these forums but the OPs have earned their money in spades !

CarlyE

Still no update. I was told I would hear something by close of business today but nothing! Very stressed about the situation. The rest of our chain is ready to go now and want to sort a completion date. Feeling massively stressed and left in limbo