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Neighbours think my drive is a right of way

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Runningonjammiedodgers · 08/04/2024 12:21

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I live in a row of terreced houses. My house (1) has a path to the front door and a drive way next to my house. Houses 2-5 share a path that leads to the road. There is a strip of grass in front of their houses and then their parking spaces.

Neighbours in house 2 used to walk over the grass to their front door to avoid going the long way up the path. They (and their guests) have now taking to walking down my driveway along my path and jumping over the flower bed in the middle to get to their door. It's really pissing me off! It's my property being treated as a right of way and they walk right past my living room window so there is no privacy. But it's also not causing any damage or inconvenience. Just annoying as hell.

AIBU to ask them to stop using my property as a public footpath? Or do I just need to suck it up?

Neighbours think my drive is a right of way
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LakieLady · 08/04/2024 12:24

Plant some berberis. That'll stop them, but not until the big prickly bits have stabbed them a few times.

ApolloandDaphne · 08/04/2024 12:24

They are CF. You need to put something on the boundary between your houses to stop them being able to do this. Long, heavy planters with high prickly shrubs should do the trick.

Sprinkles211 · 08/04/2024 12:24

Rose bushes on bamboo steaks all the way down

fedupandstuck · 08/04/2024 12:23

You can ask, but I suspect that only a physical barrier will stop people if it's convenient for them.

MILTOBE · 08/04/2024 12:23

For me, it would depend on how I got on with those neighbours. If I didn't, I'd get a wall built. If I did, I'd ask them nicely not to do it.

TeenDivided · 08/04/2024 12:23

I'd ask them to stop (and plant something tall and spikey) as otherwise I'd be worried about them achieving right of way through general usage (though no idea what the law actually is on this).

Uncooperativefingers · 08/04/2024 12:22

It would annoy me too.

Can you put a fence up / grow a hedge?

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