"markzoom" wrote in message
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"markzoom" wrote in message
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I am under the impression that I have some kind of say over what
happens within 1M of my house walls.

In general, your rights stop at the edge of your property and, if
part of
that property is a highway, they may not even extend that far. When
you
bought the house, your solicitor should have established who owned
the
lane
and what rights of access you and others had over it.

I also have two windows facing
it, which would be partly obscured by a parked vehicle. There is
also
a gas meter+gas stop cock and a low gas flue on the wall....

Irrelevant.

I would have thought that obstruction of a main gas cock and meter
would be highly relevant.

It is totally irrelevant to the question of what rights you may have
over
the road. Whether you have rights over the road, which you seem to be
unable
to prove, might be relevant to whether that is the proper place to have
a
gas meter and gas cock though.

Colin Bignell


It's been there ever since the house had gas (a long time) so I would
have thought that I gained adverse right of access to it? It's also a
safety issue that access to it remains clear.
M.K.

I expect you would find that it is you that has had to have had the access
to it, not how long the meter has been there to accrue any rights. If it
really is that much of a safety issue to you get your meter moved on to your
own land where you have complete control over it and get your flue lifted
higher.