We have recently bought a house which has shared access with another and a pedestrian right of way to an apartment complex. Irritatingly the concrete pathway to the apartments is on our side of the otherwise gravelled driveway. There are a line of birch trees down more or less the centre of the driveway. However our neighbour put in bollards on our side of the trees dividing the driveway, giving him a wider driveway than ours by about eighteen inches all the way down and he also painted the centre gate pillar at the entrance the same colour as his wall on the other side. The previous elderly owner of our house didn't object. Our neighbour refuses to remove the bollards, which look incredibly ugly, and we can't do anything about it legally as we stupidly bought the house with the bollards in situ. I don't want to start WW3 and our budget is very tight but I would dearly appreciate any ideas on how we could make the entrance look pretty. The pathway has to remain wheelchair friendly.

Traditionally, drives have gone in a straight line up to the house, which was fine when the family only owned one car but since then many of us have two and it is a pain having to move cars around. With this in mind, I suggested to my husband to curve a new driveway around under the bay window, a bit like a tree trunk with a branch. Mindful of not totally tarmacing, we have been able to keep grass areas on both sides. My husband took some convincing, mindful of extra cost and he being the man, that this was his domain but it works we are very pleased with the result.

Want to fix fence posts but would need to drill driveway laid with resin to secure posts

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