Shared Access driveway, where do we stand on this? ENGLAND
Shared Access driveway, where do we stand on this? ENGLAND
Hi, so for reference we have lived in a small cottage for almost 10 years, and have always had an allocated parking space down the end of our private road. In 2004, the neighbour who owned the end cottage built a house on the plot of land at the end of the private road, one of the conditions was that there must be adequate parking for the adjacent cottages. We have always parked in a parking bay which says “parking for number XX” as when we moved in, there was a sign placed there. The person who owned the large house on the end of the driveway was always happy with us parking our car there, and every couple of years renewed the signs with new ones so we could all clearly see where our parking is, we’ve had no issue for almost 10 years. Fast forward to the Friday just gone (26th June) and we have got some new neighbours who are living in the big house. They have blocked off all access to our allocated spaces, and are saying that because it’s on their land, we cannot park there. They have also gone on to say that they own the entirety of the private road and will soon be building a brick wall in order to stop us from driving a car onto our driveway or onto the allocated parking spaces. I’ve found some drawings from when the house was originally built in 2004 which shows there has been allocated parking spaces for 30+ years (since 1985). Where do we stand on this legally? When we purchased this house it said we have 2 allocated spaces, one in front of our house and one down the road.
EDIT: here are the pictures of the drawings, and our allocated spaces
https://ibb.co/xKz0vJP1
https://ibb.co/67yT6hCF
https://ibb.co/TM023vR5
https://ibb.co/XRhSnW4
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https://ibb.co/xt92dKz2