Shared driveway - potential issue?

lzzwzz

Doozergirl said:

hazyjo said:

Doozergirl said:

hazyjo said:

lzzwzz said:

Would a shared driveway put you off purchasing a house?

Wouldn't touch a shared driveway with a bargepole (sorry!). Try searching the forum for Shared Driveway (or drive) for some examples. 

The OP doesn't even know if it is a shared drive. 

Also, don't touch a house with neighbours with a bargepole.  Try searching the forum for examples 😉

I'm sorry, I thought their opening question was "Would a shared driveway put you off purchasing a house?"

I quoted that and answered. What's your problem with that? No need to pick me up on it. The point of a forum is to look at previous answers or we'd all be repeating ourselves and tbh it's better to read someone's thread and the problems they've incurred rather than me listing random scenarios.

Saying that, I'd be happy to list a dozen reasons why I'd not touch one, but seeing as you've corrected me and said it's not necessarily a shared drive, I will save my breath (well, fingers).

They need to spend £3 on the Land Registry website.  

Thanks for this advice. I have done and can see the clear boundary. As there is no physical boundary, I was interested to see if other people would be put off purchasing the house.

Davesnave

lzzwzz said:

Doozergirl said:

hazyjo said:

Doozergirl said:

hazyjo said:

lzzwzz said:

Would a shared driveway put you off purchasing a house?

Wouldn't touch a shared driveway with a bargepole (sorry!). Try searching the forum for Shared Driveway (or drive) for some examples. 

The OP doesn't even know if it is a shared drive. 

Also, don't touch a house with neighbours with a bargepole.  Try searching the forum for examples 😉

I'm sorry, I thought their opening question was "Would a shared driveway put you off purchasing a house?"

I quoted that and answered. What's your problem with that? No need to pick me up on it. The point of a forum is to look at previous answers or we'd all be repeating ourselves and tbh it's better to read someone's thread and the problems they've incurred rather than me listing random scenarios.

Saying that, I'd be happy to list a dozen reasons why I'd not touch one, but seeing as you've corrected me and said it's not necessarily a shared drive, I will save my breath (well, fingers).

They need to spend £3 on the Land Registry website.  

Thanks for this advice. I have done and can see the clear boundary. As there is no physical boundary, I was interested to see if other people would be put off purchasing the house.

Some will and some won't. What the title plan/docs show is what really counts, as does the capacity to extend parking on one's own land, if it becomes desirable. Viewers will come with all levels of experience and different prejudices.

Heres_the_deal

I've walked away from several houses where the driveways (2.4 metres in width) are attached (not shared but next to each other) leading up to each individual garage. In all cases we toyed with putting a fence between the two, however, to park any modern car in that space, you'll not be able to open both doors fully. One house had a covenant saying no fence could be erected between the drives, on another it was not allowed due to an article 4 directive.  Add into the mix that some neighbours could object to any fence leading to a conflict within days of moving, then I'd walk away from the layout.

mattyprice4004

Personally it's a no, but I have 2 friends both with shared driveways who haven't had any issues that I'm aware of. 
Both of their neighbours are lovely, I can only imagine it being a problem if you aren't so lucky. 

pinkshoes

If there was room to put a wall up and it would not cause any issues parking, then that would probably be ok.

If not, then not a chance I would consider it.

kangoora

It's fine as long as you have decent neighbours. It's not fine if you get a certified lunatic/neighbour from hell move in next door to you. Although, a shared driveway may be the least of your problems then. I would certainly add it to the 'cons' list when weighing up pro's and con's over whether to buy.

TBagpuss

OK, if it was a shared driveway then it would put me off. If it's actually two separate driveways with no physical barrier than it wouldn't put me off provided that there was space enough that if I chose to put up a physical barrier there would still be enough space to park my car(s) on my drive, so I could feel confident that if the neighbours turned out to be unpleasant (or there were ever  new neighbours who were not reasonable) .

Personally I would probably want to have a visual marker even if it was only a line of paint, in the situation you describe.

maria_lucia

Shared driveways become a problem when visitors arrive on park blocking the shared access 

Flugelhorn

I would avoid a shared driveway if at all possible

74jax

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