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  1. This is a post for the more creatively minded out there who dislike accepting "No"! Put bluntly the access to my property is terrible. It's super narrow (sub 3m), wends between other neighbouring properties, contains poor visibility and generates almost weekly complaints from delivery drivers, tradespeople, you name it. Could a fire truck get down it, in case of emergency? Maybe, but it would probably knock down the neighbours' fences in doing so. It's the terrible result of a land sale in the 50s orchestrated by someone with friends in high places. To create a new access, I'd need to drive c. 30m over heavily screened, secluded common land. I've tried proposing a fusion of a land swap (so the net volume of common land isn't negatively affected) plus a commercial proposition. The council who own the common have said: "forget it". My response is: "all the while I own this house, I'll be trying...so expect this to boomerang back at you". I really need to get creative here and was thinking the BH hive mind might be able to help. As I see it I am totally within my rights to WALK out on to this common. If I can walk out on to it then we are left with 2 questions: how can I DRIVE on it? how can I do the necessary works to be able to DRIVE on it? Now coming out of leftfield I was thinking someone, somewhere must have created some kind of "technically temporary but in reality permanent", harder-standing ramp or driveway of sorts. Something that simply sits there, or is positioned there, but absolutely does not constitute "works". Doesn't involve concrete or hardcore or cement and can (technically speaking) simply be removed. Probably made of wood. Think - various railway sleeper depth slabs of wood bolted together. A caravan....simply in driveway form. The implementation of something like this (ie. some wood, placed in common land, among other wood) might knock out problem No. 2. Or at least play a very long, very expensive game of tennis with the council as the ball goes back to them and the onus shifts on to them to prove this large piece of interconnected wood is in some way unlawful. If that worked, you'd be left with 1 problem: how do I drive on it? Maybe you're then in to an argument about the safety of the other access. Maybe this argument runs and runs and runs. Ultimately I do feel there's a way lurking somewhere in here. I almost need to box the council in to the corner somehow whereby they think: "stuff it, they'll give us the land so the net volume of common land won't be affected, and we'll make a chunk of change, so let's just get rid of him that way..." This link sheds light on quite how murky common land law is: https://www.oss.org.uk/vehicular-access-across-common-land-and-town-or-village-greens/ Are there any creative geniuses out there who could help me crack this? Big bounty fee for the person(s) who can!!
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