<html><head></head><body>It depends whether a right of way exists. Things are rather complicated in the UK. Private means private, so no entry by default. If you are visiting an address on a private road, you have presumably been invited, explicitly or implicitly. An unofficial sign "residents only" might not have any force in law. A road in private ownership, with a public right of way, can be used though if it is a "byway open to all traffic". Landowners often object to rights of way across their land and might try to discourage their use with misleading signs.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 August 2014 12:43:50 CEST, Matthijs Melissen <info@matthijsmelissen.nl> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 3 August 2014 11:18, Volker Schmidt <voschix@gmail.com> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> Residential roads in the UK often seem to have 'private road' signs, such<br /> as:<br /><br /> - 'Private road'<br /> - 'Private road no parking'<br /> - 'Private road no parking no turning'<br /> - 'Residents only no unauthorised parking or turning'<br /><br /> How do people tag these roads? For which of these would you use<br /> access=private?</blockquote><br /> I would tag them all with access=destination, unless there are additional<br /> signs that forbid entering.<br /> A "private road" is privately owned and maintained, but you normally may use<br /> it to reach the properties facing it as visitor or for delivery purposes.<br /></blockquo!
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/>Most private roads are cul-de-sacs, but in the hypothetical situation<br />where a private road connects two non-private roads, would there be a<br />legal reason you couldn't use the private road as shortcut?<br /><br />-- Matthijs<br /><br /><hr /><br />talk mailing list<br />talk@openstreetmap.org<br /><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>