Access to shared Driveway

macneil

Hi Guys,

My house is seperated from my neighbours by a wooden fencing about a meter high that runs from the back garden to just level with the end of the footpath at the front of both our houses. The area in front of both our houses is then tarmaced out to a shared entrance with two pillars. I would like to extend the fencing out to the entranceand hang a gate between it and the pillar on my side to seperate our two properties. The problem is the entrance is not equally divided between our properties, therefore if I bring the fence out dead straight it means that I will have more of the entrance than my neighbour, although he will still have enough room to drive in and out. Does anybody know what the rules are when it comes to shared driveways? The site plan I got with the deeds clearly shows the line of the fencing out to the entrance is the dividing line between the houses, but I don't want to build a fence that might have to taken down again, or have to build it at an angle. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Macneil

kkelliher

this is purely a legal issue and is solely dependant on your title documents. In the past this was probably one house and some built a house in the garden but are using one entrance. Contact your solicitor and also the neighbour as i think in this case negociation and agreement is deff the best way to go

muffler

It is a legal issue and unfortunately we don't do legalities on this forum so i will move to the legal forum

UrbanFox

kkelliher wrote:

.... in this case negociation and agreement is deff the best way to go

Good advice indeed.

Those nice lines on title deeds are not always accurate.

Also, I do not think that the lines drawn on title deeds are actual legal definitions of where boundary lines actually lie.

seamus

We don't do legalities here either.

Talk to your neighbour first and see if he's happy with the setup. If not, you'll need to discuss it with a solicitor.