I Have Been Parking My Scooter On An Unadopted Road

[Hamsterlover44]

at the back of my through terrace house just outside my gate. My neighbour now says that he owns the land and I only have right of access, is this true

[Zacs-Master]

As no one has access to your deeds (or tenancy agreement) it's impossible to say.

[jamesnan]

I would ask to see some proof as evidence of what he is saying

[MichaelZZ]

Is this neighbourliness reciprocated?

[LyndaB]

This sounds very familiar to me - in fact you could well be talking about me although none of our neighbours parks their scooter at the side of our house. We too have what everyone thinks is an unadopted road at the side of our house, and it does indeed belong to us, and the neighbours (including the church at the back) do indeed only have rights of access. Ita caused no end of arguments over the years!

[heathfield]

Some info here...

http://www.pendle.gov.uk/info/701/roads-adoption_agreements/963/unadopted_streets/3

[LyndaB]

Everyone thinks that the land at the side of our house is unadopted, but it is on our deeds - they show that we own the land right up to the walk of the house next door. The bottom of the driveway is wide enough for two vehiclesk so I park on it, as close to our wall as I can, then cars can get up and down it. m
all our neighbours know the situation, but unfortunately their visitors don't, and it is usually with them that we have the problem.

[buildersmate]

"Everyone thinks that the land at the side of our house is unadopted, but it is on our deeds".

That's perfectly possible; you are confusing unadopted with legal ownership. Unadopted means the local authority has not taken over responsibility for the maintenance and upkeep of the road. An adopted road is never privately owned. An unadopted road may be privately owned or it may be owned by no-one (that is traceable).

[LyndaB]

By 'everyone' I meant 'most of the people in our town'. I have lived in the town all my life and never realised that it belonged to this house until we moved into it. It's actually more trouble than it's worth!