I'm confused on this one. My understanding is as follows:-
- A land registry map in NI likely shows you own to the middle of the road, particularly if rural. Given mid-ulster I assume that is the case.
- Roads service have rights to maintain what constitutes the highway (hedge to hedge, fence to fence etc), by virtue of some ancient law. This feeds into maintaining sight lines over someone else's land ie a sight line exists and you just need visibility over it.
- to get a new access for a property over land owned by someone else, for it to be long-standing and stand up to dispute should be a legal agreement for right of access.
What confuses me is that the lay-by is yet to be built, but will be for access to your additional site. Therefore what is proposed above will end up being a shared access? In the country in NI this can be limiting for mortgages etc