Have I missed something but where was the bit about driving through a yard?
Access to home via farm track
- Thread starter PAAB
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Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Very first lines, acces to our home is through a farm and along a track.
PAAB
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- Location
- South-West
You really do like to read betweenthelines don't you? But unfortunately you are wrong on every single presumption you have made on this thread. You really have some imagination!
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
can you share what advice the solicitor gives, be interesting to hear what the wording on the deeds is? Word of advice, it may be helpful to get a statutory declaration from the previous owner.
kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
Seems sensible to me and is certainly the advice you would have been given on here if roles were reversed.
Do you need to open and shut a gate onto the public highway every time you go out? Just curious.
PAAB
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- Location
- South-West
Hi kiwipom, yes, we have to open and close the gate when the sheep are present. Whrn I bought the house, I queried this gate with the homeowner at the time who told me the farm were planning on putting in a cattlegrid- suffice to say that over 2 years later there is no cattle grid. In hindsight, i should have followed this up at the time with the farmer but of course it never seems an issue until you start to have to use it. Then again, opening the gate isnt a massive issue and wouldn't have stopped me buying the place
- Location
- Scotland
Good grief, are you expecting the man to fit a cattle grid within 2 years? If he's like me he will need at least 5 to settle on the design.
betweenthelines
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- Location
- southwest
They really saw you coming didn't they?
"Oh, the sheep are only in the field for a few weeks a year"
"Don't worry about the gate, the farmer's going to put in a cattle grid"
I wouldn't have believed everything they said, and I certainly don't believe everything you say.
Like on Tuesday when you said you wouldn't post on here anymore!
kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
While you're at your solicitors it might be worth checking what you're liability is if the gate is left open by yourself or someone visiting and the sheep get out.
Anyone know?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I don’t know what the paperwork might say, but whoever left the gate open would certainly be liable for something if they let my sheep out!
He’s bought a house, where the access is via gated track across someone else’s field. Personally, it would drive me nuts having to constantly open & close gates to use the track, but that will have been factored into the price paid, whether the OP realises it or not.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Any vehicular access here must be fenced off from casual use by livestock for the reason of salmonella and other disease control. We don’t want grain trailers carrying sh!t into the grain store on their wheels.
To be honest an unfenced track to a dwelling with livestock roaming on it all sounds a bit medieval but if that’s how it was sold then you are probably stuck with it.
We fenced our own access track off years ago, for the reasons above and we don’t like sh!t spoiling the surface or damaging vehicles. The only problem is the RPA who declare it a land parcel every now and again but we just ignore that.
The fact you had to repair the track yourself and you have to pull sheep out of fence nets makes the farmer sound like a bit of a bell frankly but we’ve only heard one side of the story.
Personally I find the state of farm tracks to be a good indicator of the pride those who live there take in the job. The only time I’ve sympathy for a poorly maintained track is when users who don’t do anything to maintain it tear along it ripping the surface and creating pot holes. I’d be inclined to leave it unmaintained if I was the farmer in that case. Anyway you’ll just have to see what your deeds say but I’ve sympathy for both sides. Ultimately you bought it like that but maybe a bit more good will could be shown. I wouldn’t have though a couple of strands of electric wire would hurt.
To be honest an unfenced track to a dwelling with livestock roaming on it all sounds a bit medieval but if that’s how it was sold then you are probably stuck with it.
We fenced our own access track off years ago, for the reasons above and we don’t like sh!t spoiling the surface or damaging vehicles. The only problem is the RPA who declare it a land parcel every now and again but we just ignore that.
The fact you had to repair the track yourself and you have to pull sheep out of fence nets makes the farmer sound like a bit of a bell frankly but we’ve only heard one side of the story.
Personally I find the state of farm tracks to be a good indicator of the pride those who live there take in the job. The only time I’ve sympathy for a poorly maintained track is when users who don’t do anything to maintain it tear along it ripping the surface and creating pot holes. I’d be inclined to leave it unmaintained if I was the farmer in that case. Anyway you’ll just have to see what your deeds say but I’ve sympathy for both sides. Ultimately you bought it like that but maybe a bit more good will could be shown. I wouldn’t have though a couple of strands of electric wire would hurt.
- Location
- North Wales
If I received a snotty solicitors letter from someone like this, I'd be leaving sheep in the field 12 months of the year, not just may-november. So they can open/close the gate all winter too. I'd think carefully how you proceed.
- Location
- Portsmouth
What about offering to cover the cost of running electric to the gates and the costs of an electric gate?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Or just read “Happy” by Derren Brown. It is as it is, so no point fretting over it.
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- Dumfries and galloway
I cant see that being a good move. Famer has turned down your offers as he is clearly happy with the way it has always been. If he is like me and probably many others receiving a letter from your lawyer will insure you having alot more gates to open......and the sheep replaced with buffalo
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
which may or may not have a latch covered in residue from trimming a few foot rotty old ewes feet.
PAAB
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- Location
- South-West
thank heavens you're not my neigbour farmer then
PAAB
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- Location
- South-West
I thInk this just shows the mentality of some of the characters on this forum. Well done for your contribution, invaluable! Thankfully, the farmer neighbour is a decent person, unlike you by the sounds of it
- Location
- Dumfries and galloway
When i say gate of course i mean one tied to a pallet with barbed wire
- Location
- Dumfries and galloway
Haha that decent a guy you have sent him a lawyer letter telling him so