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We purchased the end terrace house on a private, unadopted road. Half the road immediately outside our house is on our title deeds as belonging to us and the previous owners had put signs up stating private parking. Everyone on the street avoids parking on our land with the exception of one family who insist that we have no rights over this land. My questions are; do we have the right to ask our neighbours not to park there and can we put up collapsible bollards if they continue to ignore us? It's driving us mad as there is very little parking- most of the other houses have yards on the back of their houses, but we don't.. .. when we bought this house, we thought that parking wouldn't be an issue!
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So not only put up the bollards but also put up a sign stating parking will be £50 per day or part thereof. If they park take a picture and send them an invoice for parking. Build up quite a few and make a claim in the small claims court. Make sure you mark out your space, a tin of white spray paint. -
If you own the land then you can do what you like, as long as planning permission is not required if you want to erect bollards then that's up to you.COMPLETING AN N180 DIRECTIONS QUESTIONNAIRE (SMALL CLAIMS TRACK) GUIDE
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I'd be a bit careful before acting on the advice already given.
You need to ascertain whether or not there is a public right of way along this road before you go obstructing it.
Just because a road is unadopted does not mean it is not a public highway to which the Highways Act 1980 applies.
For example so called "green roads" are unadopted roads which the owner blocks at their peril.
The land on which most roads are built is owned by the neighbouring property owners, they just in practice can't do anything with it!
From Private Roads: The Legal Framework (5th ed.), by Andrew Barsby:
: • Private roads which are highways for one or more classes of traffic, and so “roads” for the purposes of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and some other legislation which uses the same definition.
• Private roads to which the public have access and so also “roads” for the purposes of such legislation, but not (or not yet) highways.
• Private roads which are not highways, nor subject to publicComment
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