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No turning at the end as it's only two houses, mine and another one (the second garage). The left half of the red area are shrubs. You are right though, I may just leave it as it is. The neighbour may want to use it to get in his garage in future, even though he didn't for years. Thanks for the advice

Thank you all again for your comments. I have taken an extract from google maps to show to illustrate what I mean. Blue = my garden Green = my garage Red = my driveway - essentially the last few meters of the access road. Owned by me. The red part is what I am referring to. It has the right of way on it. The estate was only developed around 12 years ago and I believe this was implemented by the developer to secure planning permission easier. It was a builders merchant before.

Thanks for your answers. A few more details to make it clearer. There is no footpath, it doesn't lead anywhere. When the 20 houses were built 12 years ago, all roadways and open spaces were generalised and assigned a "public right of way" ... that's it, no footpath or anything. I then purchased the small section (road) outside my detached double garage, mainly to ensure i own the land that I need to get to my parking situation - i knew at this stage about the right of way. I hope I can illustrate in words how it looks ... it is a dead end with a fence to your left, directly in front, and my garage to the right. The only way someone can exercise the right or way is to walk on it, turn around a d walk off it again. And yes, I'd like to remove the "right of way" ... the honest reason is that I like things to be simple. I'd like to own what I own ... not "own, but ...". I hope that makes sense. I'm happy to pay the cost of going through the process. And I don't want to do anyone a disadvantage at all ... noone has ever been on this land, nor do I see anyone ever doing so.

Hi all, I bought a small parcel of land (which is directly outside my garage) from the original developer a few years ago. It is at the end of the road and borders my garden ... essentially I bought the last 6 meters of the road. The land has a right of way on it, which has never been used. There is no footpath and the road doesn't lead anywhere, except my garden. Is there a way of lifting the right of way? I read that something called "stopping up order" can be sought? Just to clarify ... i have no plans to develop or build on it. I'm just a bit particular about something like this. Thanks in advance for all responses.

Hello everyone, I have a white renderd boundary wall around my driveway with in and out openings for gates. The gates will come at a later stage but I already have the powe supply cables there. I may not have thought that through when building it but I now have ugly cables coming out of my wall near the end pillars. I could chisel out the wall again and put them behind a simple plastic access panel but don't really want a massive hole after installing the gates. So I was thinking to just fix a 200x300mm white plastic box to the wall and hide everything in that. However, it is impossible to fine a shallow one as I don't want it to be deeper than 60mm ish. Does anyone have an idea where I can get such a box or what else I can do please? Thanks

Hi all, I have a white rendered boundary wall with black, powdercoated railings panels. I am now looking for coping stones to give the wall the finishing touch. Can anyone recommend options for black coping stones? Will need to be black to match the panels. Thanks

I have decided to have all panels level to and adjust the walls with coping later on. The reason is that the panels consist of horizontal slats which (once the gates are in) run in one line all the way through. The wall was out by 3cm along the 23m of wall, individual panels were out by maybe 1.5cm. Will post a pic once done. Thanks for all responses

Hi all, I have a white rendered wall 0.9m high with 1.8m pillars soaced 1.7m apart. The gaps between the pillars will be fitted with black powder coated panels with horizontal slats. The wall is sloping 5cm from one end to the other. My question now is, do I follow the wall with the panels (meaning they won't exaclty be at the same level) or do I level the panels all the way along and infill the 5cm with coping and other methods? Glad for any ideas, thanks

Good idea, might give that a try. Thanks

That might be the simplest solution as it is a retrofit and i can't go straight down anymore

Hi all, I have run the cables for my lights and gate openers to the house now and have to go in through the external wall about 500mm above the finished drive. Was looking into 30mm black ducting but it doesn't look nice Is there an elegant solution to hide these as much as possible? Thanks

Thanks all. A Bioethanol burner is an option but we like the idea if a woodburner and want to see if that can be done first. We want to hide the flue inside as we don't want to see it. Outside a black flue can go up on the side of the house. Should look something like the attached picture.

Thank you, happy with everything that makes it easier. Do you mean twin wall flue?

We have no chimney in our house but really want a wood burner for ambiance. We are after a contemporary design with an inset corner fireplace. I have beed quoted 8k for this and feel that's very expensive. My idea is to build a box out of breezeblocks (initial plans around 150cm wide, 50cm deep, as high as the room to hide flue) in the corner of the living room to house the fireplace. The flue will go up and out through the external timber frame wall, then up as high as required on the outside. Has anyone done something like this? Am I being naive to think I can do most of this myself (except safety critical bits of course)? Thanks

Hi all, I am having an in- and out drive built soon with 1.8m pillars (rendered) either side. Eventually there will be sliding gates on both and I have an electrician coming soon to look at power supplies. I want lights on all 4 pillars for visual appearance and to stop people from driving into them ... thinking of elegant brick lights, lighting up the floor area so they don't blind other drivers. Can I please ask what you all have chosen? Maybe with pictures? Thanks