Neighbour blocked garage with fence

sevenhills

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

At a guess too the neighbour has put this fence up because it was the only way to get a bit of "private" garden (ie I'm guessing the back garden is overlooked).

Perhaps the OP has a large car and his neighbour was concerned that a large car had a relatively small gap(2.5m) to negotiate?

Johnny123123

pmlindyloo wrote: »

I think this is more likely to be a neighbour problem rather than a boundary dispute.

Whatever your solicitor says about 'fighting this' (probably through historical use) it is likely to be expensive and not improve relationships with your neighbours.

There must be more to this. Why would your neighbour do this? Are they not using their garage?

They said they wanted more privacy and didnt like having a shared access way. They dont use their garage to park because they have big cars and park them on the street instead.

Cakeguts

Cars have got wider over the years since this house was built.

unrecordings

I have a similar drive, it's quite common for the 1920's house round this way to share a common drive for access to two garages. The right of access (if it exists) should be marked on your title plan - possibly as two shaded areas - and then referred to in the deeds

Johnny123123

unrecordings wrote: »

I have a similar drive, it's quite common for the 1920's house round this way to share a common drive for access to two garages. The right of access (if it exists) should be marked on your title plan - possibly as two shaded areas - and then referred to in the deeds

Thats the problem you see, theres no mention of any shared access or shared driveway or right of way on both our deeds. It just shows in pink outline that I own half and the neighbours deeds show they own half.

molerat

Unless there is a clause mentioning vehicular access over that shared driveway then you are pretty much stuffed. I reckon the solicitor who did your conveyancing should have spotted if there was a right of access considering there is a garage at the end of it.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

Cakeguts wrote: »

Cars have got wider over the years since this house was built.

1.25m has never been wide enough for a driveway. It's just over 4 feet. Cars were never that small - old minis were 4ft 8.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

molerat wrote: »

Unless there is a clause mentioning vehicular access over that shared driveway then you are pretty much stuffed. I reckon the solicitor who did your conveyancing should have spotted if there was a right of access considering there is a garage at the end of it.

This is absolutely not something the solicitor should check. They don't look at the plans and wouldn't have known about there being a narrow driveway or a garage at the end of it.

If they had been asked to check, it would be different, but they will not look at plans to see if anything like this needs checking; it needs to be someone who sees it on the ground who flags that.

ProDave

Sell the car and buy a motorbike. That will fit.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

Johnny123123 wrote: »

Thats the problem you see, theres no mention of any shared access or shared driveway or right of way on both our deeds. It just shows in pink outline that I own half and the neighbours deeds show they own half.

Was it a drive when the houses were built? Or were the garages built later with some sort of informal arrangement?