Shared - Access ?

[Kenny33]

Shared Drive-Way for Three Homes.

We are the middle home and having problems with our neighbour at the beginning of the drive. He insists that he owns the shared driveway (as you drive into the driveway there is space to manoaver out for the homes but he parks his work van here). This is not in front or on the side of his home. He as also painted half the fence which separates the homes from the field. This is upto the front of our house leaving our other neighbours and myself with a unfinished fence. AND, at the end of the fence he has put in a gate with a pad lock (So he can walk his dog) AND, we think he owns a small peice of land next to our house (which is detached) and he has put slabs against my wall/home? Please help - neighbour driving me mad.. Am I right or wrong?

[Panic Button]

I used to have a house with shared access and garages opposite I remember the solicitor explaining the deeds showing that we each owned the land between ourselves and our garage. However the deeds gave the neighbours right of way over the bit we owned.

May be different in your case, but the answer will be in your deeds. You will have to pay a solicitor to decipher them.

[buildersmate]

Panic is correct - this is the usual arrangement.
Whilst the neighbour does legally own the land of the driveway, you normally have right of access to pass/repass, any maintenance costs are shared, and there will be a specific convenant to prevent him from parking on that driveway.
You don't normally need a solicitor to sort this out - money for old rope, Get on the Land Registry website, type in the postcode, select the property, pay the �3 x2 to download the Land Register and the Title Plan and read it.
http://www.landreg.gov.uk/
Very unlikely your land is not registered with LR.
This is only true of the driveway itself - he can maintain the rest of the open area which he legally owns as he pleases and it is up to you to paint your part of the fence (if you wish to).

[Kenny33]

Cheers Guys...!