After speaking to the planning consultant we have been pretty much advised what some of you have said , it is totally up to the seller to find the owner of the lane before .
as it is quite likely to be un-mortgageable .
we have also found out from the planning that we are the fourth people to apply for pre app so obviously something isn’t right with it .
i feel gutted as thought the seller was genuine and was being honest but clearly wasn’t .
we will do some more investigating in to the lane owner and see if I can get any where with the name lead from the anonymous letter we received .
thank you for all your advise