Access being blocked

[Cinnamon009]

The access to our house is down a long unadopted lane from the main road. It is the only way to access our house. We have no side access or pedestrian access.

There are a number of houses whose gardens back onto this unadopted lane. However, this is not their main access as the front of their house leads onto the main road.

A number of them are undergoing renovations at the moment. The lane is blocked a lot with vans parked on it and you cannot get round them. If you manage to find them they do eventually move to let you in but then park back up but if we are having deliveries etc then drivers don't mess around looking for them. I'm sick of missing trains or being late for apps because we have to find them to move. Our bins don't get emptied. We have had so many deliveries just say no access to the house. We have tried being reasonable but I feel that we need to put a warning shot across their bows. Do we have any legal standing if the road is unadopted? Would we be able to adopt the lane and make it private with access only granted so we can ask them to move off private land? I presume they would be able to argue against this?

[dslippy]

Thre answer is very probably not in getting it adopted. The LA would reject any request, or make it subject to very expensive conditions.

Go back to the description of your right of way. Where is it, and how is it described?

[atticus]

you need to speak to all property owners concerned, and have a clear but polite note to put on vehicle windscreens.

[des8]

Who owns the lane and what do your deeds state about access?
You can find out at: https://www.gov.uk/search-property-i...-land-registry

[ceridwen]

Agree with the speaking to other property owners in the nearby road and having a suitable note at the ready for car windscreens. I "think" (cautiously optimistic) that I've been able to stop tradespeople vehicles parking in our unadopted little road by speaking (firmly!) to the house-owner that wanted to facilitate this and explaining I knew they didn't have the authority to act like that on behalf of us all and give strangers permission to use our lane like that and I would certainly have progressed to "note on windscreens" if their vehicles had been parked in our lane blocking it up for us.