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neighbour building wall - obstructing to open car door

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  • MysteryMe
    MysteryMe Posts: 3,052 Forumite
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    Lorian wrote: »
    How do you know?

    I missed out the word "my" as in my house

    Thanks for asking for clarification without resorting to mocking
  • agrinnall
    agrinnall Posts: 23,344 Forumite
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    MysteryMe wrote: »
    I missed out the word "my" but that is no excuse for the manner of your response.


    It was a significant omission that entirely alters the sense of the sentence. And G_M has earned the right to post in whatever way they choose within the forum rules (which that post certainly was), when you've built up a similar reputation we'll cut you some slack too.
  • rajgn
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    I think I understand my position better now...
    Thank You all for your suggestions...I appreciate you all taking time to respond in-spite of busy schedule.
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  • Davesnave
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    Bacon_Sandwich wrote: »
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  • societys_child
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    Badger50 wrote: »
    The OP owns land which is part of the land originally benefiting from the restrictive covenant applying to the neighbours land
    What covenant? Think you're confused by something said by another poster, who was referring to their own property, not the one under discussion.
  • Red-Squirrel_2
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    Sunny_Intervals wrote: »
    Why would it put people off? If the area's too small to park on, I'd rather have it walled off. When it's left open, people have a tendency to treat it like it's a public path...like you've been doing.

    A lot of houses built in the sixties and seventies have drives that we’re fine for the cars of that time but too narrow now. Most of my street is in that position and most would never consider doing something that made their neighbour’s drive unusable. We all cross over each other’s drives.

    So OP, while you have had correct advice on the legality, I just wanted to sympathise that I think they’ve been inconsiderate and not behaved very nicely or been good neighbours on this.
  • moneyistooshorttomention
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    I think we've pretty comprehensively established that the majority 21st century view is not to infringe on someone else's land - even if it is such a situation (ie drives built in the era of smaller cars). We've seen too many cases of neighbours trying for a bit and then maybe a bit more of someone else's garden.

    We know also that care is necessary to stop a bad neighbour trying to claim a legal right to pass over our garden - on the excuse they've been doing it for years.

    That from a position of I think part of my garden (on house from that era) might have been deemed to be a drive at that time. But I can see clearly it's simply not wide enough for a drive nowadays - and so it isn't a drive and has now been incorporated into the garden.
  • Red-Squirrel_2
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    moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »
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    That from a position of I think part of my garden (on house from that era) might have been deemed to be a drive at that time. But I can see clearly it's simply not wide enough for a drive nowadays - and so it isn't a drive and has now been incorporated into the garden.

    Well mine is definitely still a drive and I shall continue to let my neighbours walk on it to get out of their cars! I suspect the dozens of other houses on the street will do the same, I don’t think anybody wants all those cars suddenly parking on the street to avoid the disaster of someone setting foot on a few feet of somebody else’s tarmac! :rotfl:
  • Nick_C
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    Red-Squirrel wrote: »
    A lot of houses built in the sixties and seventies have drives that we’re fine for the cars of that time but too narrow now.

    OP's house was built in 1999 and the parking space is 2.68 metreswide. That is massive. I could park my car in a space that wide and access one side of it very easily.
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