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End terrace right of way access
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Hi All, I bought an end terrace house in 2014. The house has a side way shared for access with the houses through rear of the gardens.My deed says that the boundary of my property in the title includes the rear upto the wall subject to Right of wayregister contains any charges and other matters that affect the land. Exact wording in quotes:1“The part of the passageway at the back included in the title is subjectto rights of way”The map with is clear that all the land is included in my title.
The back and side way was not accessible until 2020. When I decided to pay for it and clean the back and side way.
now I want to put a fence at the border of my garden at the side and towards the rear up to the rear fence of my neighbour across the side way. My neighbour agrees with me and has no issues. But his neighbour ( who has not adjoining terrace property to mine is arguing that I must leave more land at the rear to allow his vehicle access. My understanding is that he doesn’t have the right of way over my land and only my adjoining properties have the right of way at the rear of my garden. Is this correct?
if yes then what should I do as that neighbour is threatening me that if I try to install the fence up to the point where theirs is then he will break my fence.
should I contact the police? I tried to explain politely to my neighbour that he is not my adjoining neighbour so he doesn’t have right of way over my land. Only my adjoining properties have the right of way and I am leaving as much space as the neighbour threatening me has left at the rear.
His plan is to build a car repair garage at the back of his garden and his idea is that I must leave more space that theirs at my rear garden to allow him reverse car into the rear of his garden and repair it there.
which as far as I know is not legal. He regularly repair cars for customers on the street and at his driveway which again I believe is illegal.
My questions are:
1) legally does only adjoining properties have right of way at the rear of my garden?
2) Am I required to leave more space at the rear for my non Terrence adjoining neighbour to allow him reverse the car into the rear of his garden. This is a very tight space and I don’t believe it is intended for vehicles.
3) the space I am leaving the at rear is a bit more than the threatening neighbour’s rear space but he wants even more.
4) what are my options?
Apologies for the long message. If anyone can help that will be much appreciated.
I included two pictures on with the title wording and the other with the map. The neighbour has his fence at the solid line before the red line at the rear and I want to do the same.
On the map the yellow painted house neighbour is threatening me.
the red border house is mine.
Many thanks in advance
Abid
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You'd be better off starting a new thread of your own instead of adding onto an old one as people will have to read through the previous 3 pages before seeing your question. It also gets confusing as to whose question people are answering.Thanks.0
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