Shared Driveway and land registry questions

Jazxholly1

Hi,


Currently in the process of buying a house with a shared driveway. So its a row of 4 bungalows the first two and the the last two are link detached ( linked by the garages) so the areas outside the garages are shared however the boundary line is down the middle of each drive. ( Well it should be ill explain that later)


Does this mean we would be able to park on driveway even though it is shared and is a right of way so long as we are not blocking access for anyone, the street is a dead end so there is no reason for anyone to ever need to drive down unless visiting our potential house and the gentleman at the end of the road next to us.


The house has never been registered on the land registry as it has never been mortgaged and the old couple lived there since the 1960's, we have received the local search report which shows the potential boundary line but this does not include our garage or the driveway , the garage is in the deeds. Is this a mistake as I have got copies of titles for the other 3 houses in the street and there boundary line includes the garage and the drive. So im struggling to understand why ours wouldn't?


I can send pictures if needed.


Thanks

quotememiserable

The normal form with shared driveways is that neither party can block the shared part. It sounds like if you park on it, you park half on your side and half on theirs, is that right? It should says so on your deeds. If the deeds are unclear, you really need to ask your solicitor. And talk to the neighbours about what they normally do.

Jazxholly1

No the driveway is wide enough for us both to park a car in front of our garages, so alongside each other.

Jazxholly1

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/fullscreen/image-gallery.html?propertyId=70815130&photoIndex=9#


You can see the adjoining garages in this picture.

Cakeguts

Jazxholly1 wrote: »

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/fullscreen/image-gallery.html?propertyId=70815130&photoIndex=9#


You can see the adjoining garages in this picture.

If you put a fence down the middle line between the garages would you be able to open the car door to get out without the door having to cross the middle line? If the answer to that is no then you don't have room to park your car on it if you need to open the car doors.

Jazxholly1

Well you can park the car in the garage, so that is a cars width slighty more so yes you would be able to get out of a car if there was a fence in the middle separating the 2. I know we wont have an issue at the moment with the elderly man as he parks his car around the other side of his house Im just thinking ahead as he is very elderly so its possible we will have new neighbours before we come to sell the house

societys_child

When I read shared driveway I thought No . . .
parking on shared driveways can cause all kinds of disagreements.



But having seen the photo, if you park close to the house wall (having let any passengers out) it doesn't look like it'd be a problem.

MoneySeeker1

The thing I can see here is that if either your house or the neighbours need to have a large vehicle deliver goods then it looks as if said large vehicle would need to be on the whole of the shared drive width as it loaded or unloaded goods. Looking at the photos it looks as if it wouldn't be possible for any vehicles to park on the road without blocking it.

There is a strong likelihood that both houses concerned will require large vehicles (delivering goods for house renovation purposes) to them very soon now. Yours will because it needs renovation and I presume you intend to do so. Next door will, as it is likely to need renovation shortly.

Jazxholly1

The neighbour has a large tarmac area at the front of his house we're his visitors park and we have an area in front of ours which we will be making into a space. My father is doing the renovations and has a large van which easily fits on the driveway and you can get another car in front of it, the pictures make it look smaller than it actually is, we would both have to be polite enough to speak to one another when we are having said renovations done to make sure it would suit each other if we were need to use each others drive way for said large vehicles

oystercatcher

We have this set up, can't remember our deeds but assume the boundary is down the middle. Neighbours and I park on our own sides , on the odd occaision one of us has builders in or similar then we ask nicely and allow the other side to use the whole drive.
No problems.
..well once many years ago I scraped next doors car , confessed and offered to pay for repairs but he said he wasn't worried.... two more sets of neighbours since, we are all nice people and share nicely. It could get nasty with the wrong people but everyone who lives in our road is lovely

duggan1

Know someone who bought a property with a similar arrangement, large shared driveway and elderly neighbours with a kia picanto. 3 months later the neighbours downsized and the house was bought by a family of 4 who have a mobile home parker permanently on the drive and two of the residents have work transits. Plus 2 cars. All the champ can see out his front window now is vans.