Shared Access And Being Used To Motor Bike By Neighbour

[bollyhead]

Our property shares a joint access foot path to mine and my neighbours property only. the houses are joined but have an alleyway through to the rear garden. this access is just for our two properties.
The neighbour has now taken to riding his motor bike up the shared access through the alley to his rear garden.
I have asked them to stop and been told its private land and |I can't do anything about it.
is this right.

[ummmm]

So he's using the alley to get to his garden? Not leaving the bike in the alley?

[bollyhead]

he is riding up the 40 foot front garden path that is shared through the shared alley and parking it in his garden, surley he must have to push it as I have a child and its dangerous?

[carrust]

I can't see the problem here. Surely he's allowed to store his bike in his back garden & not on the street. If he's tearing up the alley at speed, then i'd have word with him regarding your child.

[ummmm]

I can't see the problem either. Surely if your child was too young to know to stay off the path when he was riding his bike through he/she should be supervised.

[bollyhead]

he is riding at speed up the path I never said he should not park it in his garden, he can push it and not ride it. but surely he is not allowed to ride a bike on a path. these must be illegel.

[bollyhead]

Also why should my child have to move off a path for this person to ride a motor bike along it is a foot path not a road!!

[black_cat51]

well if he was pushing it would you expect hom to go off the path to go round your child if they were on it?

[bollyhead]

not at all i was originaly asking is it allowed for him to ride a motor bike along a shared foot path. take the child out of the equation.
surley this is against the law! this is my question

[murraymints]

Don't think it's illegal...it is just as much his path...can't you sensibly speak with him to voice concerns...a wrangle with neighbour is best avoided as it can spiral out of control, cause further unpleasantness and....you have to live next door !

[FredPuli43]

Can't see any legal complaint unless the properties have it expressed in their respective deeds/on the Land Registry entries, that the path is only to be used as a footpath or not by any motorised vehicle. If the record is silent , you'd have to rely on necessary inference and I can't see that getting anywhere. If he rode a cycle up the path . I take it you wouldn't complain. So saying because the bike happens to have a motor it follows that it must be inferred that it is forbidden by necessary inference is surely a non-starter.

[retrocop]

Is your shared access path Private and not a public thoroughfare whereby any member of the public can roam up and down it at will?If it is Private land then I can't think of any law that says he can't push or even ride his motorcycle on jointly owned/shared land providing his actions are not reckless.

[Skyline D]

I'm with everyone else here. I can't imagine any reason why it would be illegal.

[ToraToraTora]

I'm trying to visualise, is the path on one side or up the middle like a tuinnel? In any case the above are correct he can ride up there no problem.

[black_cat51]

i suppose he could say "i want to ride my m/b up the path, please keep your child off it!"

[Tilly2]

I don't suppose he roars up the alleyway at 100 mph, does he?

I'm glad I don't live next door to you.

[carrust]

Tilly. Remember what happened a couple of weeks ago to the 13 who got suspended.

[Tilly2]

Oops. Thank you, carrust. I have just seen what section we are in.

[EDDIE51]

The ally way may be ok in law but he can't ride over the public foot path to get to it. It is illegal to ride or drive on a public footpath.

[carrust]

Eddie. I have to drive over the footpath to park my car on the drive, as do millions of other motorists.