Neighbours new fence blocking access

Lrb

Me and my neighbour have joining driveways and have never had a problem. My neighbour has sadly passed away and his son has decided to renovate the property to sell. One of the first things he has done is to erect a fence that is now dividing our drives. The previous owner of my property build a garage down the side of my house set back slightly. With the angle of the house it now means I have no access to the garage with my car as the gap between the fence and the corner of my house is too small.
My question is. Even though the fence is on my neighbours property is there anything i can do because of it restricting my access. 
I didn't get anywhere when I spoke to his son. Just that the fence is on his land

Mizydoscape

Do you have a right of vehicular access over your neighbours section of the drive you would need to use to access your garage?

Jeepers_Creepers

You need to have a very careful look at your deeds, Lrb, ideally along with your neighb's. These can be downloaded for little money from the land registry site. Read what it says - if anything - about the driveways, whether there's any suggestion of shared access, vehicular right of way, that sort of stuff.

Other than that, I don't know if it's possible to accrue a RoW over time?

But, the single biggest question is - do you have Legal Protection on your house insurance? If 'yes', then call them up for advice.

74jax

If you don't have access due to the gap being too small, if it was larger do you have to drive on any of the neighbours driveway, or is it still just your driveway but you can get through? 

Do you have a photo? 

Is it the size of your car, would a small car fit? (I'm not suggesting you change cars, just trying to picture it). 

babyblade41

As @Jeepers_Creepers said.. download yours and neighbours deeds , very cheap at 3.00 each.

From there you will be able to see what is what and if you have ROW , probably should have done that first before approaching neighbour and without the full facts 

sheramber

We had that problem with a house we had as the next door neighbour had put up a fence down the side of drive.
. To get in and out of the garage you had to manoeuvre at an angle due to closeness of the garage to the house wall.  

A small van.car could mange but nothing bigger without risking scratching the car on the corner of the house.

Only remedy would be to rebuild the garage further back.

Lrb

74jax said:

If you don't have access due to the gap being too small, if it was larger do you have to drive on any of the neighbours driveway, or is it still just your driveway but you can get through? 

Do you have a photo? 

Is it the size of your car, would a small car fit? (I'm not suggesting you change cars, just trying to picture it). 

Gap is way too small to fit a car through. Girlfriend has a car and that's too big

Lrb

Lrb said:

74jax said:

If you don't have access due to the gap being too small, if it was larger do you have to drive on any of the neighbours driveway, or is it still just your driveway but you can get through? 

Do you have a photo? 

Is it the size of your car, would a small car fit? (I'm not suggesting you change cars, just trying to picture it). 

Gap is way too small to fit a car through. Girlfriend has a car and that's too big

Ment to girlfriends car is a C1 and that's too big

Flugelhorn

agree download the land reg for both your house and the neighbours and see what it says - with a shared drive you may well both have right of access

sevenhills

In my row of houses we park our cars at the back, but if we had fences the poor drivers would not be able to get the large cars in, someone said we are not meant to park our cars at the back. I believe my neighbour paid for an indemnity policy just in case the issue came up.

sheramber

Adjoining  driveways are not shared drives,  it is two houses with a drive each which are placed next to each other.