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Hi all, this isn’t exactly about planning but hopefully someone can help.
I’d like to put a gate in our back fence as we have no side entrance to our back garden.
The fence faces on to an area that’s not a road, but more a small area off the Main Street where people park their cars. About 12 houses all back onto the area and access their back gardens via this, and about five or six people park cars there. There is at least one garage that faces into the area too.
Apparently I don’t need planning permission to put a gate in the fence but I’m not sure about creating a right of access. The owner before us said he’d tried to put a gate in but for some reason he couldn’t get agreement. We never asked him what he’d done or who he’s spoken to and wish we had.
Any ideas how I do this, who is should be speaking to ( I don’t think it’s Planning) or what bother I could be in if I just go ahead and do it? (I’d rather not as I don’t want to annoy the neighbours!)
I’d like to put a gate in our back fence as we have no side entrance to our back garden.
The fence faces on to an area that’s not a road, but more a small area off the Main Street where people park their cars. About 12 houses all back onto the area and access their back gardens via this, and about five or six people park cars there. There is at least one garage that faces into the area too.
Apparently I don’t need planning permission to put a gate in the fence but I’m not sure about creating a right of access. The owner before us said he’d tried to put a gate in but for some reason he couldn’t get agreement. We never asked him what he’d done or who he’s spoken to and wish we had.
Any ideas how I do this, who is should be speaking to ( I don’t think it’s Planning) or what bother I could be in if I just go ahead and do it? (I’d rather not as I don’t want to annoy the neighbours!)