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[Colin Smale]

On 2020-05-29 14:02, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:

>> On 29. May 2020, at 12:57, Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> 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 ;-)
> 
>> But between the footway and the house you have to assume it is associated with the house,
> 
> do you? Because this is the "typical" situation, or are there more hints?

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. 

> 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.

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. 

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.
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