to find this really fucking annoying even though it doesn't really affect me much

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I live in a detached house with a walkway between myself and the neighbours to access both our gardens at the back (diagram attached).

The neighbour has a front garden whereas I have a driveway. They have a gate that opens to the side of my house to allow them access to the walkway to get to their back garden. The walkway is shared land according to the deeds but stops at the top of my driveway (basically my driveway isn't shared but the walkway is).

Whenever my neighbour is doing anything in their garden, bringing this in / out of the garden/ taking things from the garden to their car on the road or whatever, they will go up and down my driveway instead of going through their gate and then down their garden.

It really annoys me. I don't really know why but AIBU to think this is just an odd thing to do?

My living room window looks onto my driveway and some days they will be working in the garden and making multiple trips up and down my drive and I feel awkward and like I need to close my blinds.

I don't even have a bad relationship with them, not friends or close but fine neighbours and we say hello how are you etc when we see them.

But I just find the whole thing really weird. I would never dream of strolling up and down their garden path repeatedly.

We also have cars on the drive so when they are bringing things in and out it worries me they will get scratched.

Aibu to find this annoying and tbh a bit rude?

I want them to use the gate from their garden into the walkway and vice versa when bringing things to and from their back garden yes. Instead of bringing this past my cars and going up and down my drive whilst I'm trying to relax in my living room (big bay window at the front so when they are up and down my drive all day they are practically 2ft away from where I am sitting in my window in my living room)

I don't understand why people think you're wrong to be annoyed, this would piss me RIGHT OFF.
I completely understand why they're doing it, it's way easier than unlocking /opening their gate all the time. Plus for example if they're coming out in slippers, I'd rather walk on a driveway than a garden in slippers in case I track mud back into the house etc.
But it would get right on my tits if I were you! I'm completely petty so I'd start parking my car in a way that blocks my driveway from their gate onwards.
However I'm a MN outlier as I also get really pissed off with my neighbours parking outside my house when they have a perfectly good driveway, so I appreciate my view isn't the norm!

Do you mean there is a fence between their garden and the walkway?

You need a corresponding fence, between your drive and the walkway.

How are they supposed to get onto the shared walkway if your drive isn't part shared?

I know that they are going to and fro on what looks like your drive - but is that really how the deeds are laid out?

I imagine it is because it is walking in a straight line. Can you park in front of the path so they need to divert either to their side or yours. If they divert to your side then they are being very odd but I imagine if it isn't a straight line then they'd go to their own side.

Neighbour has a gate between walkway and garden, it is marked on the drawing.

It looks shared to me.

Through the gate at the top of their garden which opens into the shared walkway.

I’m confused now - where’s the fence? It’s around their garden, yes? Not on your drive? There’s only a fence because of the garden. Without the garden there would be no fence.

What I mean is that if they had no front garden (and no fence therefore) and only a drive, like you, then it wouldn’t feel to you like trespassing even if they did sometimes walk on your drive (which they wouldn’t need to, as they could then walk on their own drive instead).

It isn't. The shared part extends onto thr walkway but not down my driveway.

That would still mean stepping onto your drive

are you sure the shared drive isn’t down the middle like this

So with a new fence you're basically mirroring what they currently have.

I'd be quite annoyed too as I bet they have a good gawp in!

Just wanted to add this wouldn't worry me but it would drive my husband round the bend and I'd never hear the end of it so I'd have to try and sort it.

They have access to walkway , through their garden

Are you certain that the entire width of the driveway is your property?
Unfortunately it would be common sense that the common walkway extend to the road. I wonder if previous neighbors simply agreed to “pave” that part but the section of “land” remains shared access.

1. your diagram is not clear, we can't see what is yours and what is shared

2. a few people have said to put a fence up - including me! - but you haven't replied about that. Why not just put a fence up?

Rough red line showing where the boundaries are on the deeds. And the dotted line is where neighbour walks up and down to go through the walkway.

I can’t see how else are they supposed to access the street… what is the small line along the street and attached to their front garden?

Could you post your Land reg plan and deed?

Yes, do this.

I've said the plan is to put a gate at the top of my drive, until that happens though I still think it's weird to walk up and down someone else's drive all the time. I would never go through their gate and down their garden, even if it was easier for whatever reason.