End terrace right of way access

DoaM

Doesn't even need a key lock ... just a return spring and a latch. All it needs to do (for the OP) is close the gate and keep it closed (i.e. not blow open in the wind) so that the dogs are safe.

bouicca21 said:

Check the gate is closed before letting the dogs out?

I guess you're not a dog owner then? 🙄

leonj

you need that spring for sure, what use is a padlock, you can still leave it open all the same

bouicca21

DoaM said:

bouicca21 said:

Check the gate is closed before letting the dogs out?

I guess you're not a dog owner then? 🙄

Sadly my lovely dogs are no more, but I would never have let them out in a garden that was not secure.  Doesn’t seem too much of a hardship to me to check the gate is closed.

Mojisola

bouicca21 said:

Sadly my lovely dogs are no more, but I would never have let them out in a garden that was not secure.  Doesn’t seem too much of a hardship to me to check the gate is closed.

The problem with a ROW is that people can come and go so you could check that the gate was shut, let the dogs out and then someone could come through the gate and leave it open.

hellenoftroy10

HampshireH said:

Surely your garden itself should be secure if you have dogs?

I'm struggling to picture it sorry. You say its an allyway but that its direct to your garden. Does this mean the ROW is actually in your garden and not an allyway. So they cross yoir garden..... into their own via another gate or its all open plan?

Could you secure this area?

Can't see you getting away with blocking the wall back up if it shouldn't have been done in the 1st place.

Sorry only just seen your reply, new to this site. So there is an passageway running along the side of my house which has a metal gate level with my front door and then you walk down the length of my house along the passageway and come to a small wooden gate at the back of my house and then access across my garden to another gate to get into their back garden. When he has returned smashed out of his face he has occasionally left all 3 gates open.

hellenoftroy10

ElizabethRose said:

If the deeds say right of access they have right of access. It's very common with terraced houses. I'm surprised there was a full wall there to start with. Many years ago I was advised when I was buying an end terrace with the deeds saying the same I could put up a fence but must install a gate for the neighbours. 

The previous neighbours were in the house for about 40 years and obviously made an agreement with their neighbours that it was fine to block it off. That same house has the right of way blocked off to the adjoining house also...

hellenoftroy10

AdrianC said:

Rather than a padlock, just a yale type lock (to which they have a key).

The spring closes it, the lock locks it. He can't get in without a key, he can with. He'll quickly remember to take a key... in which case, it might as well be the front door, because it's easier.

It is a much longer route for him to get into their house when he comes around the back way but I guess they just leave their back door open. The padlock would prevent him from using the rear access I'm sure as he only uses it at 4 in the morning when he is wasted anyway. 

Barny1979

Why would anyone buy a house where people have to cut through your back garden to access theirs?!

Davesnave

Barny1979 said:

Why would anyone buy a house where people have to cut through your back garden to access theirs?!

Kinda obvious, I'd think.

It's very common with the old thatched cottages in our town, which attract premium prices. If people can't pay the price of a cottage with a garden that's totally private, they can walk away or buy a cheaper one with a RoW through.

The RoWs in most cottages I know go close to the house, but beyond that there are slightly detached garden areas, many of which are hedged and a damn sight more private than anything you'd get with a modern new build.

NameUnavailable

Barny1979 said:

Why would anyone buy a house where people have to cut through your back garden to access theirs?!

Because a lot of older terraced properties were built exactly this way, to allow access for coal deliveries etc., stuff you don't want to drag all through the house to get into the rear garden/yard.