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<p>On 2020-05-29 14:02, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:</p>
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<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">On 29. May 2020, at 12:57, Colin Smale <<a href="mailto:colin.smale@xs4all.nl">colin.smale@xs4all.nl</a>> wrote:<br /><br /> Sorry, I think I had a different photo in mind. It's pretty clear that the footway is associated with the road, so if you have access to the road, you can walk on that footway.</blockquote>
<br />I cannot see this. To me there is a sequence road, lawn, footway, identical lawn, house, and no indication where a potential boundary between private and public would be located. I'm pretty sure the building is private though ;-)<br /><br />
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<br /> do you? Because this is the "typical" situation, or are there more hints?</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">We only have the photo to go on. It is my assumption that the footway follows the road, past multiple properties, and that it is intended for pedestrians to pass along parallel with the road. It's only an assumption, but it sounds like the most likely scenario to me. Do you think it would be OK for you to walk over the grass towards the house without good reason like an intention to ring the bell? If it were my garden you had better watch out.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">You have to assume you have no right to be anywhere, unless you have reason to believe you are allowed. That's the law (in England and NL at least). that's a sad law, in Germany it's the opposite: you may assume you can be everywhere unless you have reason to believe it is forbidden.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Are you referring to Jedermannsrecht? From wikipedia I get the impression that that applies to open countryside and would correspond to "open access areas" in England. Do you have reason to believe somebody's front garden is forbidden? To me that's a no-brainer.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Maybe this is a symptom of a cultural difference. To a Brit like me, "an Englishman's home is his castle" is how we are brought up.</div>
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