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Doesn't reading your comment leave a message screaming in your ear......
CHANGE THE SOLICTOR - QUICKLY
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The first thing that you could do is park your own vehicle in front of your gate thus stopping anyone else putting something in that space and then carry on chivvying your solicitor, taking photos of anything and anyone who comes and should not be there and perhaps you might choose to lock your door and not answer for an afternoon if they knock.
A solicitors clerk should be able to get a copy of the plan and deeds within a couple of days, I ordered a set last week and they were 2 days by post. The plan wont be enough, there could be right of access listed in the title deeds, even if it's not the main access to the other property.
If they don't have right of access you can say no, or negotiate a price for that right, so give in until you get the deeds
There is a sign up saying no parking, road for access only. They know this and are ignoring it. My solicitor has the details now of where the boundaries of my land are and where the road is situated. He is finding the names of the owners ( I believe there are 3 in it together) and will be issuing an order for them to desist using the road to access their land.
I assume your solicitor can uickly get access to the Land Registry site, I can, and I am not a solicitor and get a copy of the plan for the land you own and the access agreement that must exist between you and the other house owners who need this road for access.
Presumably the road is therefore a private road, unadopted by the council and maintained by you and the other house owners who use it. It sounds as if this is a private road, and not part of the public highway. Could you put up a sign that says 'Private Road, Access only?
I would be chasing my solicitor up every day in your situation, to make sure they understand the urgency of the situation and are acting fast.
As I explained in my original post. We bought the land to enable us to build a house on. We later sold two more plots which were also built on. All three homes use the road as the only access and egress.
Oh that’s a bit more complicated. I thought it was just your house and your road but there are actually other families living there with access rights or ownership rights?
Have you got your documents with your deeds and rights from when you bought? It should have been made clear then.
The solicitor needs to check that I do own the road to enable him to forward the necessary document/letter to the owner of the property to point this out and to order him to desist in enabling others to use and park on my private road. I can’t really put any obstacles in the road as myself and two other families live on the land and it’s the only way in.
Here is the link to the Land Registry www.gov.uk/government/organisations/land-registry/about/about-our-services You can do the search yourself for £7.
Do you have any documents relating to when you bought your property? These should include a plan of the land included in your plot.
Can you place a road block beyond your own drive entrance, leaving access to your house for yourselves, delivery/visitors etc| but preventing any vehicles using the private road beyond that point? Would that help?
I’m doing this without visiting solicitors offices so he needs to get the land registry layout of my land to see where the road is so he is certain I have complete ownership of the road. I could be telling him anything.
We had similar problems - ours was a joint access with a neighbour , who decided he was going to give us, as much aggro as he could. He used to park his pick-up on the joint access, thus preventing my husband (now ex) from leaving.
Fortunately, because he was a GP and had to be ‘on call’, we were able to get the Police involved.
He soon got the message.
Do you need to use your road for your own car? If not see if a friend or someone you trust can park a vehicle across the entrance.
Something similar happened to acquaintances, the developers saw their road as the easiest access. They intended to buy an old ( useless) vehicle to block the access. Fortunately other issues resulted in limited development and the builders pulled out.
Take a photo click choose file, click photo library and choose your photo.
Why is your solicitor dragging his heels.
He should have immediately issued a cease and desist order for you to serve on the owner and anyone employed by him.
If this is your land and you have the deeds to prove it theirs is nothing for your solicitor to “find out”.
Years ago my parents were in a similar position and stopped the building traffic over their land within 24 hrs.
Would you consider a different solicitor?
I have a diagram to post but not sure how to
We bought a piece of land including the access road 24 years ago with planning permission for 3 houses. A house at the top left of our road sold 3 years ago with land at the rear and buyer applied for planning permission. I was fine with this as long as the use of my road was not included in the plans. A garage behind the house was going to be demolished and entry would be through that space. I was informed of the application and in viewing it realised they had included a detached house where the garage was and included my road as access. I objected to this with my solicitor and it was upheld as the possibility of 12 or more cars trying to access the main road was deemed as hazardous by the Highways department so they had to revert to their original plan. No work has been done up until this week when a motorhome was parked in front of my gate. I investigated who’s it was and it was a man with a chain saw to take two trees down ready for the land being levelled. I explained that this was my private road and he had no right to use it to gain access to the proposed land and owners had agreed to demolish the garage and use that as the entrance to their land. Not his problem he said, he’d been told to park down the road and cut trees down and that once he had, a digger was coming to level the land ready for the foundations. I have been on to my solicitor to see what he can do but in the meantime this moron is just laughing at me. He’s been here every day since Saturday. My heart is pounding at the thought of all this traffic going in and out and I can’t physically stop it until my solicitor finds out how legally we can veto this. My husband died 6 years ago so I’m dealing with this on my own and at 79 it’s no fun. I’ve thought of some kind of barrier but that would be a problem for visitors and delivery people as we are a way off the main road. It’s so frustrating when these people just ride roughshod over your property to suit themselves.
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