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House next door has been sold. Several years ago (under ten) the owner knocked and said something along the lines of, you know where my drive way is and part of thats yours, is it okay to pave it. We agreed as it was one corner to create a curve, and our fence (inherited when we bought) already followed that curve.
Now though, do we ask what the new owners think - do they think they own that small extra bit?

To reassure yourselves get a copy of the title plan for your house from the Land Registry part of the gov.uk website. It'll cost you £3 for an instant download.

On the plan look to see if the boundaries as you understand them are correct.

Then purchase the plan for next door and compare. Hopefully everything will be as you understand it to be.

It's really difficult to visualise what you mean without a photo. Your old NDNs will have been asked to confirm the land registry plan and boundaries were correct when they were selling and to provide proof of them being otherwise if they believed they were wrong.

I wouldn't go wading in with this to the new owners, certainly not unless they were doing something to make me think they did think they owned this part of your drive. At some point, if you feel it's necessary, you can simply say that when old NDN paved their driveway, that part of yours was also paved for continuity.

It's a corner plot (ours) and where our back fence should go straight across the back, to the road side, it curves to allow for him (at right angles to us) to have a wider entrance to the driveway. So instead of grass fenced into our garden, a corner is missing. Our deeds show a straight line.
Good idea to get theirs.

Still get a copy of your title plan, unless the deeds you refer to are recent, because the land registry periodically updates maps based on OS updates and it can be difficult to compare two different styles of map.

The other thing is that allowing the NDN to drive over part of your drive to access theirs could create a right of way - worth checking if this is mentioned in your title register.

you might consider marking the drive with blobs of paint along the ownership boundary. Or, if it is paving bricks, painting one in five, or so, with a different colour. It need not be bright.

It's the back corner of our garden that is missing. If you came out and looked at the back fence, it curves into our garden so that the house behind has a curved, wider drive. So it's access over the corner of our garden. Does tray make sense?

Same principle as with part of your driveway. Do your title deeds give a right of way to NDN over this paved part of your garden? If not, that's good.

Speak to the present owner, he could have something written on the fixtures and fitting list maybe?

Take a look at Land Reg to see what’s yours.