Shared Access Path

xpjpx2000

Path is just about wide enough to fence off and thereby giving them sole access to path but not ideal solution. A fence along boundary of properties with a gate may be best option.

Thanks all.

Mojisola

xpjpx2000 wrote: »

Path is just about wide enough to fence off and thereby giving them sole access to path but not ideal solution. A fence along boundary of properties with a gate may be best option.

You could try a temporary barrier like low posts in plant pots with rope strung between them until visitors get used to using the path.

moneyistooshorttomention

Once an access path always an access path basically I'm afraid.

What needs to be borne in mind is that current people in that house have dug up the grass and turned it into driveway BUT a future person in that house may reverse the situation and decide to dig up the driveway and put grass back again. It's called "depaving" - and there are people that do it (eg it'll be done to my house once I can afford it).

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

I would bear in mind as well that people wandering over your drive are probably not currently aware of the full legal situation, and just changing it won't alter anything. The thing that annoys you is already "illegal" (not actually illegal of course but you know what I mean).

They are currently walking over your drive, without any legal right to do so, because it is easier and nobody stops them. What you have to do is either stop them from doing it or make it so it is easier for them not to.

Cheeky_Monkey

Not the question being asked I know but, as it's a Council house, I am wondering if they had permission from the Council to dig up the front garden lawn and replace it with a driveway?

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

Cheeky_Monkey wrote: »

Not the question being asked I know but, as it's a Council house, I am wondering if they had permission from the Council to dig up the front garden lawn and replace it with a driveway?

As he wanted them to do that it doesn't seem a useful thing for him to bring up.

I'm not sure what relevance it has to anything, how anyone here could possibly know, or why anyone would want to know whether some people they had never heard of somewhere they don't know had permission to do something. You might as well ask the same question of every council house you ever pass that has had anything done.

If it helps, a house halfway up the road from me built an extension recently and they did have planning permission.

pollyanna24

I have a very similar setup, but it doesn't bother me as such because when I am in the house, my car us most likely outside and so the easiest route to next door is using the path.

If my car wasn't in my drive, maybe people would (and maybe do when I'm out) just walk across my drive to get to my neighbours.

When my neighbours bought, it was me (stupidly probably) who pointed out this ROW. They have said they are going to put a wall all the way around except entrance to their driveway, so the ROW I guess will be made redundant. At the moment, there is a small gap in the wall outside their front door which leads to the path.

I didn't know about the ROW when I bought until my previous neighbours told me. It wouldn't have stopped me buying the house, haha, but I do wonder why it was put in and why my neighbours house couldn't just have a path through their own driveway.

Houses built in 1950s.