Advice

JgdEd8810

I hope I have posted this into the right area on the forums if not can this please be either moved or deleted.

Myself, my daughter and my mum and dad have recently moved into a new build house on a unadopted road ( not private ).

My neighbours have erected a plastic post with a plastic chain within their boundary in the middle of the road making access to our drive hard to get onto and delivery drivers struggle to get down our road as they would have to reverse 20m to just turn around as the turning point is Inaccessible as it’s also blocked off just past their “make shift fence”.

they claim it’s all their drive in which they have a separate driveway just off their house.

There is no through road as it’s a cul-de-sac, we have tried being amicable and asking them to remove it as my mum and myself struggles to reverse onto the drive ( takes 5 attempts to just get straight and I have one eye ) to which we get a no, it’s their land.

I might be wrong in thinking that they cannot block a turning point or even put up a post in the middle of the road but please can someone correct me if this right that they can do this.

yes I know my grammar is probably shocking but I’m at a lost in what is the law, what can and can not be done as a unadopted road is completely new to me.

propertyrental

You need to look at who owns what, and who has right of way where.

Look at the Land Registry Title for both your and their houses.

https://www.gov.uk/search-property-information-land-registry

Is trhere a management company managing the roads unti;l they are adopted?

user1977

It's the correct forum, but it helps to use a more specific subject line - almost everybody here is looking for "advice" of some sort!

Placitasgirl

It would be really helpful if you could upload a photograph or perhaps a simple sketch illustrating what it is that your neighbours have done. I can't visualise a plastic post in the middle of the road, yet "within their boundary". 

prettyandfluffy

Agreeing with the advice given by @propertyrental.  Our house is also on a unadopted road, also a no through road although our road is surfaced and finished to highways standards.  There is a condition stated in our deeds (Land Registry documentation) that we must allow free passage over the part of the road we own and not obstruct it in any way.  Read through the text as well as looking at the plans to see if you have something similar, you can post the documents on here as long as you obscure any information such as names or addresses.

Herzlos

Does anyone need access past the barrier? If not then in the short term I'd be inclined to just park beside it on what would be your driveway. They'll almost certainly complain about that but maybe something will click with them.

Whilst that's going on, I'd be on at the management company to deal with it.

Grumpy_chap

JgdEd8810 said:

I hope I have posted this into the right area on the forums if not can this please be either moved or deleted.

Myself, my daughter and my mum and dad have recently moved into a new build house on a unadopted road ( not private ).

My neighbours have erected a plastic post with a plastic chain within their boundary in the middle of the road making access to our drive hard to get onto and delivery drivers struggle to get down our road as they would have to reverse 20m to just turn around as the turning point is Inaccessible as it’s also blocked off just past their “make shift fence”.

they claim it’s all their drive in which they have a separate driveway just off their house.

There is no through road as it’s a cul-de-sac, we have tried being amicable and asking them to remove it as my mum and myself struggles to reverse onto the drive ( takes 5 attempts to just get straight and I have one eye ) to which we get a no, it’s their land.

I might be wrong in thinking that they cannot block a turning point or even put up a post in the middle of the road but please can someone correct me if this right that they can do this.

yes I know my grammar is probably shocking but I’m at a lost in what is the law, what can and can not be done as a unadopted road is completely new to me.

Are they correct in their claim that "it is all their drive"?
What do your deeds and their deeds say?
There can sometimes be ownership of the land, but no opportunity to fence it off if another party has right of access over the land?  Do you have any such right?  Is that right to cross the land on foot only?  Or foot and cycle?  Or horseback?  Or, and I suspect this is what you believe, to pass and repass with a motor vehicle?