Boundary dispute

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We have a shared drive, moved in recently and want to redo our part of the drive. However the current next doors drive extends up to the edge of our garage. The garages have a small gap between them and the land registry just shows a straight 50/50 split. So we've lost space. There is two different types of concrete their currently. The neighbour says that's the divide the split in the concrete.

It makes parking on our side drive very tight as we've lost c. 6 inches of space.

To redo the drive we would need to cut back the concrete belonging to the neighbour.

Is this allowed? Don't want to fall out with them but don't want to pay £000s for a drive that's going to be down years and not get the full benefit of what's rightly ours.

Garden Law Discussion forum has a large section devoted to Boundaries. You will probably find discussion of cases similar to yours.
It's the first place I would look if I had a land problem.

Thank you @Abitofalark, much appreciated, I'll head over there.

Whatever you do, proceed cautiously. You could end up with a nightmare of a boundary dispute on your hands which could cost you £££l stop you from ever selling your house and having to live next door to the people you are in dispute with. The only people who win are the lawyers.

In your circumstances, I would be tempted to just lay the same type of concrete as next door.

I agree with PP, lay the same concrete as next door, gain adverse REpossession - and then erect a fence in 1 year, when the dust settles, as per deeds. Maybe redo the drive as you want in another year or 2 after that, from behind the fence.

Trust me and all others here that a full legal battle will probably take just as long as the above, will exhaust both your finances and your health, and will constitute a "dispute", which has to be declared if you come to sell.

You would be made ill with it. Be clever and resolve by stealth.