DerbyBorn wrote in news:cca15663-8c39-49a4- snipped-for-privacy@w4g2000yqm.googlegroups.com:
If that's the case and your daughter doesn't want her neighbours driving over her property she needs to tell them now and if at all possible put a fence or similar on her side of the property line to prevent them taking to piss.
Put in a post right at the corner. Someone here once did that with a steel post painted to look like wood.
The neighbour, as you say, has no legitimate right.
If the neighbour does do the corner cutting trick, I suggest that she parks here car across the dropped kerb immediately and summons somebody PDQ - you, perhaps? - to install a solid barrier on her side of the boundary to replace the access restriction that existed before the fence was removed. Then she can move her car ...
CCTV recording of events could be useful and I would also investigate the trespass situation if I were you ...
Thanks - am I correct to think that if such a minor transgression is ignored then it can legally become an "Easement" and could give problems for future owners of the property if my daughter sells?
Too bloody lazy to finish the job and stick a traffic cone on top I see.
They *could* call the police, and as you would be parked on a public highway, a charge of "obstructing the Queen's highway", or however it's phrased nowadays could conceivably be the result. Note that the offence
*isn't* obstructing the neighbours' access.
Yes. Not immediately, but it may cause problems, and anything of the sort must be declared by the vendor, whose solicitor, if the ones acting for the purchaser of my currrent property are anything to go by ,will take great pleasure in racking up the bill by making further enquiries.
If it occurs, take legal advice, and bear in mind the neighbours' possible reaction.
If the neighbour is not your daughter's favourite person then another option is an anonymous call to the local planning office to alert them to a possible breach of the SUDS regulations. Planning depts mostly have little time for enforcement but you never know.
Wrong college. The cone experts are here:
That's a bit daft, many semis have a "driveway" at each end and the only place the neighbouring semis can have one is right next to it!
Steve W
Doing that would be an obvious act simply to obstruct the neighbour and would cause arguments, how about two posts and a pair of gates :)
SteveW
I'm fairly sure that that's the case if you ignore it, however I'm pretty certain that if you give them permission (preferably in writing) then you can rescind that permission at any time.
SteveW
Some do. Our neighbours were having a conservatory put up and they got a knock at the door as someone from the council (Trafford) had spotted a skip on the drive as they drove past on the way home, figured there was work going on, checked in the office the next day and found that there was no planning permission or building regs. application. As soon as they they found that it was a conservatory, they were happy - despite the fact that it should have had planning permission as it was on the back of an existing extension and therefore not permitted development.
The neighbours had asked us were we happy before they went ahead and I must admit I sometimes wonder why the council needs to be involved if neighbours can agree amongst themselves.
SteveW
Like the extension my parent's nextdoor neighbours had done. The council knew nothing about it until I submitted a Part P notice:-)
I must admit I was a bit worried about causing trouble for the neighbours when I submitted plans for our own conservatory and had to mark theirs on the plans!
SteveW
We had a new family move in opposite-left to us, last year. They drove their Zafira onto their drive, and the wife really struggled to reverse it out. For reasons best known to himself, our LHS neighbour started parking his car on the road opposite them. Which meant she was unable to steer the car out of their drive, so had to park it on the road - opposite our neighbours car. Which meant the binmen couldn't get past (we live in a cul-de-sac). (Our council MO is to take note of missed bin collections, then ignore them, so your bags don't get collected till the next week).
Within days, the pair of them had a real stand up shouting match in the street (which I had great fun covertly listening to from my garage, which faces the street). A *real* ding dong. As I suspected, plod made a visit (although I suspect my LHS neighbour has "contacts"). The end result was LHS neighbour started using his drive again.
HOWEVER ... I noticed LHS had a CCTV camera fitted a few months ago. And there was a "covert surveillance" installer parked on the opposite neighbours drive last week. Also opposite neighbours have fitted the worst excuse for a fence/hedge on their front drive possible.
I don't know why, but I suspect the Mrs and I have our retirement entertainment sorted ...
Enjoy, and get your own CCTV and a YouTube account please.
Already have a YouTube account (just not connected to this).
It crossed my mind actually. I have idly wondered about how to sneak a webcam onto/into the roof, so as to be invisible, and protected from the elements. I've already got a 24/7 server, and there's loads of Linux software for image recording.
LHS neighbour is a very prickly customer. We get on alright with him, mainly by dint of a cheery wave and smile when we pass him walking his dog, and chatting about the weather on the odd occasion we are on our drives at the same time.
We live on the inside corner of a right angle in the road , so our LHS neighbour is also neighbours to our RHS neighbour (their back gardens adjoin). Couple of years ago, RHS neighbour (who is .... shall we say "bluff") had some builders in to shore up the wall at the bottom of his garden, forgetting to mention it to LHS neighbour, who looked out, saw a workman in his garden, and went *ballistic*.
Eventually police were called etc etc.
When we had our garage roof re-felted, I knocked on LHS door, and politely told him we were having some work done, and not to be worried if he saw men on the roof, and to apologise for any noise ... he could not have been more pleasant, thanking me, and saying it was "no problem". And when we saw his loft overflow dripping a few months ago, and told him, he was very grateful. Meanwhile he and RHS cross the road if they see each other.
Remember, you make your friends. You make your enemies. But God makes your next door neighboor ;-)
Its only legal to park if you are not causing an obstruction so parking is not permitted on both sides of your road.
I could sent my next door neighbour round to concrete the OPs next door neighbours driveway. That could start a riot.
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