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?

They enter /exit via their gate

Are they walking over the pink section?

Op has not put a gate in from the street to the neighbours garden which confused me. I think she wants them to come down walkway, go into front garden, exit from front garden onto street

If this is correct, speak to your solicitor about any issues with not enforcing your boundary.

That walkway looks like it extends to the street.

Cross posts

repark your cars strategically

so the access is blocked on your side

Is their garden fenced all the way round?

Do they have a gate onto the street too, as well as onto the walkway?

People are all different.

You have to enforce boundaries at times.

Who lived there first - you or them? Because if them, they may have done this for years.

Aren't they using their gate?
Looks like they come out their gate but have no other choice than walk through the OP drive.

It's not wierd at all, it's rude and annoying for Op
Put a fence/ gate up Op as they could claim right of way after a few years

Unless the neighbours garden and your drive meet with no walk way in between, then I can't see what they are doing wrong.

You need to fence your garden at the bottom of your drive next to the road, on your boundary. But you should politely clarify to the neighbours where the boundaries lie, and ask them to not trespass.

be absolutely certain first perhaps, with solicitors advice, that they haven’t used long enough to entitle them to it?

Is this what you mean op?
Otherwise how do they get from their front garden to the street if all the drive is yours?

Sorry I didn't think to mark it on the diagram but yes they do have a gate that opens onto the street. They could go from the street, into their garden, through the gate into the walkway.

I'm not quite sure how else to say it but none of my driveway is shared. I have looked at the deeds. The land is actually equal for both houses as they have more back garden than we do and we have more land at the front.

They must have a right of access across the bottom part of your drive though from their gate to the road? Otherwise how do they get out?

Ah right - can you mark where the new gate is on the plan?

speak to them, that wold annoy me. never get why posters pretend that they would be happy for people to use their land.

I’d literally park on car so close to boandry and near the pavement- then park the other car further forward but close to the other car leaving very little gap

after a while they’ll get used to not being able to use your drive

habits are breakable

So the bottom bit of the walkway is your land?

The walkway is shared you're right, but instead of using their own gate and front garden to access the shared walkway, they are using her drive, which isn't shared, to access the walkway.

I think my car would be parked as close to their fence as possible.