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Hello - hoping someone can help please.
I live in an old (400+years) property in Kent and we have an old cobbled driveway. Not sure if it dates back the full way but it's certainly more than twice as old as me, probably a lot more and I'm edging close to retirement! We own the land the driveway is on but our neighbour has a right of way across it. They park their car at 90 degrees to the part of the driveway that we own and since they just bought a new, slightly larger and heavier car the action of turning the front wheels on full lock every time they come and go is digging up all the cobbles and making a right mess.
We don't get on with them at all - they are of the type where the whole world revolves around them etc, and we've unfortunately fallen out about one too many trivial matters now, otherwise we would be able to have a grown up conversation with them and come to an agreement I'm sure.
As that is no longer possible, does anyone know where we stand legally on this? If it were a normal driveway of tarmac or pavers then it would more likely be a case of the driveway not being properly put down and a simple case of getting it fixed and agreeing on who pays for it. However, these stones need to be replaced properly and then ideally the cause needs to be stopped as it wasn't designed for 2 tonnes of car bearing down on just two small areas being turned. So having it put back as it was, it will only get dug up again. Clearly we don't want to replace the driveway and shouldn't have to even if this was an option.
The properties are listed (grade 2) but I doubt this would cover the driveway, photos of which are attached.
Any thoughts welcome and much appreciated of course.
Thanks
I live in an old (400+years) property in Kent and we have an old cobbled driveway. Not sure if it dates back the full way but it's certainly more than twice as old as me, probably a lot more and I'm edging close to retirement! We own the land the driveway is on but our neighbour has a right of way across it. They park their car at 90 degrees to the part of the driveway that we own and since they just bought a new, slightly larger and heavier car the action of turning the front wheels on full lock every time they come and go is digging up all the cobbles and making a right mess.
We don't get on with them at all - they are of the type where the whole world revolves around them etc, and we've unfortunately fallen out about one too many trivial matters now, otherwise we would be able to have a grown up conversation with them and come to an agreement I'm sure.
As that is no longer possible, does anyone know where we stand legally on this? If it were a normal driveway of tarmac or pavers then it would more likely be a case of the driveway not being properly put down and a simple case of getting it fixed and agreeing on who pays for it. However, these stones need to be replaced properly and then ideally the cause needs to be stopped as it wasn't designed for 2 tonnes of car bearing down on just two small areas being turned. So having it put back as it was, it will only get dug up again. Clearly we don't want to replace the driveway and shouldn't have to even if this was an option.
The properties are listed (grade 2) but I doubt this would cover the driveway, photos of which are attached.
Any thoughts welcome and much appreciated of course.
Thanks
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