Dear all.
Looking for some advice regarding a shared driveway. Groan.
I live in a property that shares the top of a driveway. The plans for the estate show that my plot, 77 (in a red circle) has right of way over plot 78:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dv0...ew?usp=sharing
The adjacent property to plot 78, whose driveway is highlighted in yellow is usually free at the top, and a car could leave by driving over the top of the driveway to reach the highway. This is only because the person living there has never said anything about anyone doing this. There is no right of way to cross their driveway. They could erect a fence for example along their boundary and stop this practice overnight if they wished, for example.
However my neighbour is constantly parking a car on the shared (black hatched) bit of the driveway, thus blocking the only exit from plot 77 or 78 unless one drives over the yellow area of the neighbours driveway. Often the owner of the house with the yellow driveway has visitors, parked rightly so on their drive wherever they see fit and it is therefore impossible to leave, without moving the obstructing car on the black shared bit. On occasion I have had no response to knocking on the door and have been forced to miss appointments etc.
I have looked at the land registry for both properties but cannot really see any mention of the shared driveway. This is however clear on the plans from when the estate was planned and built. It also makes logical sense that neither person should obstruct the share entrance/exit to both properties.
I have tried talking to the people in question, and for a while the behaviour stopped. But it is now starting again.
My questions to the leaglbeagles here:
Thanks in advance to any responders!
Hyperion
Looking for some advice regarding a shared driveway. Groan.
I live in a property that shares the top of a driveway. The plans for the estate show that my plot, 77 (in a red circle) has right of way over plot 78:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dv0...ew?usp=sharing
The adjacent property to plot 78, whose driveway is highlighted in yellow is usually free at the top, and a car could leave by driving over the top of the driveway to reach the highway. This is only because the person living there has never said anything about anyone doing this. There is no right of way to cross their driveway. They could erect a fence for example along their boundary and stop this practice overnight if they wished, for example.
However my neighbour is constantly parking a car on the shared (black hatched) bit of the driveway, thus blocking the only exit from plot 77 or 78 unless one drives over the yellow area of the neighbours driveway. Often the owner of the house with the yellow driveway has visitors, parked rightly so on their drive wherever they see fit and it is therefore impossible to leave, without moving the obstructing car on the black shared bit. On occasion I have had no response to knocking on the door and have been forced to miss appointments etc.
I have looked at the land registry for both properties but cannot really see any mention of the shared driveway. This is however clear on the plans from when the estate was planned and built. It also makes logical sense that neither person should obstruct the share entrance/exit to both properties.
I have tried talking to the people in question, and for a while the behaviour stopped. But it is now starting again.
My questions to the leaglbeagles here:
- Do I have a case to formally make them stop parking there given the right of way in the estate plans?
- What is the best way to raise my case – my limited knowledge of the legal system suggests an injunction is the ultimate solution but is likely to require a long process
- Is there any kind of interim solution / something less drastic I could do?
Thanks in advance to any responders!
Hyperion
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