Legally should you have a path outside your home before the road?

Lauren479426

gozaimasu said:

I think the OP wants to know if she can sue the council (or whomever) if she hasn't trained her child to not walk out of the front door without looking.

Not the case at all! 

Lauren479426

LittleMax said:

Lauren479426 said:

The road is an entrance to a cul de sac car park 

for how many car parking spaces?

I believe 8 and 3 visitor spaces 

Lauren479426

stevenbecca said:

if you own the space from the house to the visible curd I'd be laying a path all the way round to the driveway. 

I’d be happy with that... I’m going to speak with the developers again as if they don’t do it I’m not allowed to change it for 10 years as it’s in the contract.

Lauren479426

robatwork said:

Is there room to park outside your front door? Modern estate have ridiculously narrow roads, but that would give you a bit more peace of mind if there was a car there as a barrier.

The road is definitely wide enough to park at my front door so I will most likely do this if I’m allowed too! 

NameUnavailable

Lauren479426 said:

stevenbecca said:

if you own the space from the house to the visible curd I'd be laying a path all the way round to the driveway. 

I’d be happy with that... I’m going to speak with the developers again as if they don’t do it I’m not allowed to change it for 10 years as it’s in the contract.

Lauren479426 said:

stevenbecca said:

if you own the space from the house to the visible curd I'd be laying a path all the way round to the driveway. 

I’d be happy with that... I’m going to speak with the developers again as if they don’t do it I’m not allowed to change it for 10 years as it’s in the contract.

Lauren479426 said:

stevenbecca said:

if you own the space from the house to the visible curd I'd be laying a path all the way round to the driveway. 

I’d be happy with that... I’m going to speak with the developers again as if they don’t do it I’m not allowed to change it for 10 years as it’s in the contract.

What exactly does the contract state? Care to share the wording?

Doozergirl

gozaimasu said:

I think the OP wants to know if she can sue the council (or whomever) if she hasn't trained her child to not walk out of the front door without looking.

Did you read your own signature before you posted?! 

sammyjammy

Lauren479426 said:

robatwork said:

Is there room to park outside your front door? Modern estate have ridiculously narrow roads, but that would give you a bit more peace of mind if there was a car there as a barrier.

The road is definitely wide enough to park at my front door so I will most likely do this if I’m allowed too! 

But you could use shrubs/other planting to mark the boundary.  I wouldn't worry too much about the ten years, once the estate is built they won't give a damn about any covenants so minor things are likely to be ignored.

sheramber

Lauren479426 said:

robatwork said:

Is there room to park outside your front door? Modern estate have ridiculously narrow roads, but that would give you a bit more peace of mind if there was a car there as a barrier.

The road is definitely wide enough to park at my front door so I will most likely do this if I’m allowed too! 

I would be more worried by a child running out from behind a parked car than running out of the door onto an open view footpath

Barny1979

In England and Wales a public footpath is a path on which the public have a legally protected right to travel on foot and in some areas public footpaths form a dense network of short paths. The technical term for what is commonly called a pavement in the UK, and a sidewalk in the US. A footway either forms part of a highway, or runs alongside it, and limits the width of a highway which is carriageway.

LittleMax

Lauren479426 said:

There is going to be one pavement slab before the road. Our drive is on the left hand side of the house therefore we have to walk over the grass front to get to our drive or out of the front onto the road and round seems bizarre to me that they haven’t put a path to the driveway or a path out the front before the road 

On the photo the distance between the man on the kerb and the front door looks a lot bigger than one paving slab.  
Is there perhaps going to be a service strip alongside the road, the width of a path but grassed such as this...