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Private easement issues.....
Good afternoon, I'm going to start posting about this matter in case anyone can offer us any helpful pieces of information and in case it helps anyone else out.....
I'll summarise July 2016 bought a beautiful house, North wales. The landowner who owns the lane running up to 3 other properties (one now empty and the other three occupants of the two houses are now serving as witnesses in the forthcoming court case), and she also owns the track leading up to our home.
We have endured (and that's the nice way to put it) 18 months of harassment, threats... I'll have to remove the access, theres more to come, i'm going to make your life hell, you left gates open etc. She has been blocking the track up with heavy gates (which don't fit the gateways, using twine tied across the track, wood, wire you name it, everything except a tractor thank fully. She also pulls another really heavy gate which no longer hangs off its hinges, right into the track. The track is 234mtrs long, she blocks it with 3 unnecessary gates or gate like structures. Since starting with solicitors letters (we ran out of options when talking to her) she has since removed the gate that never fit and hung a proper one, im guessing even her solicitor told her 'errrrr that's not a gate....'
At this stage I guess I'd like to ask, I know that in some instances gates cannot be classed as obstructions etc, however I can prove and show that the 'gates' she claims are necessary don't do anything as the walls and fencing around those fields are not secure. I basically watch her closing all sorts of gates after putting sheep or cattle in paddocks only to watch them end up in the same place.... they have free access all over the place. Has anyone previously proved this in court? does anyone know how best to approach this?
I should point out that the court action is to let us get the track fixed which she refused to let us do and refuses to sort herself. yes she wanted the house and land, she bullied the last owner out and tried to de-value the house and property. didn't work, now she thinks we are evil. guess you could say we are stupid for buying this place but we love it and I will not be bullied out of somewhere beautiful for the sake of some basic maintaince issues.
Oh and I should say we've just managed to get her to change the bottom access gate which you can't see from the house, she locked it with a padlock when the house went up for sale, it was a flexible gate it was poor until her cows kept escaping. she refused to let us replace it for free, but still insists on locking it. I should also say weve offered to address the track FOR FREE and offered her any number of gates previously FOR FREE, but now we know that they don't do anything....
anyone else enjoying access issues?
Em
I'll summarise July 2016 bought a beautiful house, North wales. The landowner who owns the lane running up to 3 other properties (one now empty and the other three occupants of the two houses are now serving as witnesses in the forthcoming court case), and she also owns the track leading up to our home.
We have endured (and that's the nice way to put it) 18 months of harassment, threats... I'll have to remove the access, theres more to come, i'm going to make your life hell, you left gates open etc. She has been blocking the track up with heavy gates (which don't fit the gateways, using twine tied across the track, wood, wire you name it, everything except a tractor thank fully. She also pulls another really heavy gate which no longer hangs off its hinges, right into the track. The track is 234mtrs long, she blocks it with 3 unnecessary gates or gate like structures. Since starting with solicitors letters (we ran out of options when talking to her) she has since removed the gate that never fit and hung a proper one, im guessing even her solicitor told her 'errrrr that's not a gate....'
At this stage I guess I'd like to ask, I know that in some instances gates cannot be classed as obstructions etc, however I can prove and show that the 'gates' she claims are necessary don't do anything as the walls and fencing around those fields are not secure. I basically watch her closing all sorts of gates after putting sheep or cattle in paddocks only to watch them end up in the same place.... they have free access all over the place. Has anyone previously proved this in court? does anyone know how best to approach this?
I should point out that the court action is to let us get the track fixed which she refused to let us do and refuses to sort herself. yes she wanted the house and land, she bullied the last owner out and tried to de-value the house and property. didn't work, now she thinks we are evil. guess you could say we are stupid for buying this place but we love it and I will not be bullied out of somewhere beautiful for the sake of some basic maintaince issues.
Oh and I should say we've just managed to get her to change the bottom access gate which you can't see from the house, she locked it with a padlock when the house went up for sale, it was a flexible gate it was poor until her cows kept escaping. she refused to let us replace it for free, but still insists on locking it. I should also say weve offered to address the track FOR FREE and offered her any number of gates previously FOR FREE, but now we know that they don't do anything....
anyone else enjoying access issues?
Em
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