Bridleways

[timblackgd]

does anyone now if you are allowed to drive over a bridleway to gain access to your parking rights in your garden which is the opposite side of the bridleway to your property? The owner of the road tells me I can't!

[Ethel]

Do you have parking rights in your garden? How do you know?

You have already been told you cannot drive on a bridleway.

[dimwithwit]

If you can't get to your land without passing the bridle way, ie. it's the only way, they can't hold you to ransom for ever, go and get it sorted, our next door neighbours had to pay 500 to make it legal, but we can't use our driveway now because we have to allow them access 24/7

[dimwithwit]

Oh that wasn't us, that made them pay it was the people before us

[bimbo123456]

If you contact your local council they will be able to tell you who to contact to establish whether the bridleway is part of the highway. You will need to write in and there will probably not be a charge. But it depends who the council is. I suppose the relevant question is is the bridleway public? If it is private then the owner may have access rights over his land if these were agreed when your house was built. You don't say if the garden parking was part of the original build or if you have just decided to park.

[buildersmate]

Its immaterial whether the bridleway is on private land or not - its still an offence to take a motor vehicle over it. Same as for a footpath and a restricted byway - not motor vehicles over them.