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Yes I think this all relies on reasonableness - which has kind of gone out of the window. The clause in the title deeds which says ‘no obstructing’ the joint access is what they could take me to civil court over and get an injunction against me getting any deliveries at all. Police won’t be interested but solicitors and courts could be. Sounds extreme. Do I think they’d really go that far......who knows, but nothing would surprise me now. But it would be costly for all of us. They might do it just for the victory. I did ask a solicitor whether a clause like that would cover me for 15 min deliveries and she said she’d have to spend a couple of hours looking at the case law. I figure it might just be simpler to save that money and spend it on ‘at distance’ deliveries instead. Thanks for the suggestions (and sympathy) everyone.

Thank you everyone. I do agree that we should have a right of way and that should include brief deliveries.....but I think my neighbours are very irrational, unreasonable and litigious and I’d rather avoid the stress and so will try to do everything via the road. Thank you for the advice and ideas

We’re having a single storey extension to the rear of our property. All approved by planning and nothing very different to what a lot of people in our area have had done.......but our next door neighbours have literally thrown everything at us to try and stop it (which I won’t go in to now as it will take too long). Anyway, given where we are I’m pretty certain the next thing they will do is try to prevent any deliveries being made on the shared driveway. (Materials would be stored on our private drive but would have to do the drop off from the shared bit). We are the first house and so any delivery to us would block the other 2 houses in (I’m sure it would only be 10 mins but the title deeds say no obstructions.....) In any case tbh I’m concerned about delivery lorries damaging the shared driveway which obviously (and fair enough) would be down to me to repair. So I’d like some advice about how feasible it is to ask my builder to manage things from the road. The distance from the road to our private drive is about 10-12 metres down the shared access. Could deliveries be made on the road and mini forklifted down the drive? Are mini forklifts much heavier than standard cars (again thinking about damage). Skips though - I think we could get a permit and store on the road but is it reasonable / fair / safe to ask the builders to get the rubbish that extra 10-12 metres? Would carrying / wheel barrow be the only option or are there any other ideas? Thank you in advance. This build has turned into a nightmare and we’ve not even started yet!