Can you legally prevent access to an unadopted road if you do not own it?

Question

I live on a grade 2 listed crescent of about 80 homes in Sussex. There is an access road from the main road leading up to the crescent which allows us to park outside our homes but it is unadopted. We are not allowed to buy resident parking permits as we live on this road. There is someone who has bought a crypt in the building underneath this crescent and we have just been told he is putting permanent bollards at the entrance to which only he will have the key and we are to remove our cars or they will be stuck there forever! We have nowhere else to park and there are a lot of families with young children etc who need access to their own front doors. Is it legal for him to do this. He gained listed building consent to put the bollards up and cited them as replacement although there have never been any in the past. There has been resident access since the property was built. Please help!

Answer 1

Why not just report him to the council for obtaining fraudulent planning consent?

Answer 2

Is the access road a highway? (Is it an established route from one place to another, rather than just a cul-de-sac?) That's your starting question. But from what you say, it sounds as though it is a highway.



In that case, if you and your neighbours have used the access route for long enough, you have an established right of way. Bollards should normally only be installed if the guy has obtained a Stopping Up order from the magistrates, at which you should have be given an opportunity to appeal. Or did he not bother?



Try asking at www.tpr.net/land.



They do free research into unowned / unadopted land: and roads. They get fees if they find forgotten owners. It doesn't cost anything to ask.



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Answer 3

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Answer 4

You really do need a Solicitor for this one. I lived on an unadopted road and no one would take any ownership for repairs or any problems we had. I would have thought logically that he cannot 'take it over' and put in bollards as it does not belong to him.

Answer 5

I would have thought the council would have looked into this before giving it, as its a listed building. Did you ask to park on his property when he first bought it? or did think he wouldn't mind?