can the council block off our drive?

[jentip]

we have been using a small piece of council land to turn our car onto our drive, they have now decided to put posts in around this land making it impossible for us to park our vehicles on our front drive and making it very difficult to turn onto the drive next to our house, they have told us to buy the land for �1500 or they intend to post it off. I know it s their land but feel they are being bullish about this. Do they have the right to block us off or do we have the right to use the land as access/right of way?

[Swiper]

I live in a house with a council owned green outside our house. I need to drive on this patch of grass to get on to my drive or i would have to park down the street. If they fenced off this green all hell would break loose from me! Don't stand for it! Alert the local papers etc, do whatever you can, don't let beucracy win!!

[wallis1007]

If I drove over your garden would you be ****** off. I think so. The land belongs to the council so why would you have the right to drive over it. You don't say wether the land is grass or tarmac. Around here they are making people that park or drive on the grass pay for the damage.

[fiesata]

Yes they can do this and you have to pay for the kerb to be dropped if necessary as they have to grant a right of passage..
I'm all for challenging things but the council have the law behind them in this case

[joko]

consider moving the opening of your drive in the garden wall to enable you to get in another way - be cheaper than �1500

[Loosehead]

It's not your land, end of! I can't see how this question arises.

Swiper, I'd fence it off tomorrow, I've never been able to understand why people think they can control what they don't own. weird

[Swiper]

Thanks to everyone who answered something that they don't understand. The council built these houses like this and built driveways on to our properties. The person before me purchased the property off of the council and we purchased it off of them. Why then would the council say that we can not drive on the grass on to the properties that THEY built with the driveways THEY provided? Believe me I know a lot more about government then you lot ever will. I have a degree in government and politics and my grandad is an MP for an independent party, so don't come off all high and mighty with me!

[Swiper]

Also loosehead, give me your name, address and car reg and i will be happy to remind you of everything you drive on that doesn't belong to you. Everytime you pull up on to the kerb to pop into the shop, everytime you think you own the road and moan about other drivers and pedestrains and don't lie to me and say you don't coz you obviously do you patronising ****!

[joko]

a degree in goverment and politics, grandad and MP - and living in a council house...mmmm?

"beucracy"...?

[Swiper]

joko am i living in a council house? No! Am i council scum? No! I have had to buy my house for a large amount of money which me and my husband have to work hard for. I didn't know it was a council house until I had already put an offer in and had my surveyors report in hand, even then i didn't really give a ****.

[fiesata]

Why bother to ask if you say you know more than anyone here .Time is precious I won't waste anymore here bye

[buildersmate]

Its a pity you've ended up taking a swipe at virtually everyone who tried to provide an answer to your question. Several of these people contribute much to this site.
If you own this piece of land in question because your seller bought it off the council then there's no problem. If it is part of the highway in that it is a footpath, you may be able to get access and put a dropped kerb at the road-edge for a price - maybe that's what the �1500 is your refer to. If the land is neither yours nor part of the highway it almost ceertainly is owned by the Local Council. In which case I'm afraid they are within their right to fence it off.
I'm sure with your background, I'm not telling you anything new here, but the Highway and Local Council-owned land are NOT the same thing. Are you OK with that?

[Loosehead]

well swiper we did touch a nerve didn't we, now get your knickers un twisted and read what I said. The key word is "control", not "access". Still olympic level ignorance like yours cannot be corrected. You "know more than I will ever know", yeah right oh!. You see, perceived knowledge is inversely proportional to actual knowledge. The more you know the more you know you don't know, and conversely in your case when you know very little you think you know everything! A degree in Governement and politics?? don't make me laugh, sat around smoking drugs for 4 years did we, get a real degree then you'll know something. Granddad's an MP, right, but you're not, mmm??

[Hammer]

Go Loosehead!!!

"Degree in Government and Politics" - not Law then? Because the two are completely different.

By the way, 4 years is generous, I'd say 3 was more like it, and the first year doesn't count anyway, so more like 2. Probably 10 hours of lectures a week for 30 weeks a year - that's about 3 months of real work!

[joko]

i didn't call you council scum, you said it ... though you admit you live in an ex-council house, so by your definition - you are indeed council scum!

My point was if you are so clever and qualified and know everything, why do you live in what was once a council house?
Surely with your huge head you are earning a fortune and would surely have purchased a large 'fancy' house, not a council house, because whatever it used to be, the council don't tend to build large elegant mansions for their "council scum"

and if you are so up on the law - indeed so much so that you "know a lot more that we EVER will" - why was your first post, a mini rant about what you would do in that same situation and learned and constructive legal advice in the form of -
" ...all hell would break loose from me! Don't stand for it! Alert the local papers etc, do whatever you can, don't let beucracy win!! "
- ahh words of wisdom from a great legal and political mind...

[Swiper]

oh my god isn't this getting boring? I can't beleive you sad ***** are still answering this! Get back to me when you lot have popped your cherry and belive me no matter how hard you try to be when you answer me don't forget I know that you really cry yourselves to sleep at night. I will deal with you all personally when you are man enough to give me your addresses!

[joko]

attempts to tap into the psyche of users and potentially find their weaknesses and therefore hit a nerve, only works when it comes from someone who doesn't come across like a petulant 13 year old, who cannot spell, can barely string a sentence together, and when they have actually managed to string a coherrent sentence together can only manage the sort of sentences that include schoolboy "i'll get you" type threats, huffy and blustery statements, lies and delusions of grandeur.

below feeble

[Swiper]

Joko, your name suits you coz you are a joke! Don't worry about putting your address on the computer coz i can hack into your account anyway and find it out!

[Swiper]

and joko the fact that you keep answering me just proves to everybody else that you are no better than you make ME out to be. Please don't try and insult me again by telling me I don't know how to spell or put a sentance together because obviously I do you thick ****!

[joko]

this a public forum - people are meant to reply... or haven't you quite understood that you don't control the people or the replies on here yet...?

keep digging yourself in deeper with your puerile threats and ranting and petulant stamping of your foot because no-one liked your answer.
you really are just proving my point.

oh and joko does indeed sound a bit like joke - genius powers of observation and deduction - and hilarious too - sherlock holmes must be sh*tting himself...

what is your obsession with people posting their addresses on here?
do you honestly think anyone in their right mind would want an arrogant and obnoxious little child like you to have their address, or indeed listen to a word you say or have any contact with you whatsoever?

i await the publication of my address with bated breath...

but then why wait - [email protected] -

fill yer boots you buffoon

(oh, and that would be sentEnce, you great speller you)