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It means you’ll never be able to lock your garden securely. Working on the house won’t be a problem as you can temporarily reroute it around any works you need to conduct.
If it no longer runs anywhere and is just access, you might be able to have the public right of way removed which would allow lockable access gates just for the neighbours who need to retain right of access. You’d need a lawyer to look into that.
Ramsaye-
Thanks very much, that's useful information
Fingers crossed that it becomes my problem in the near future!
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Is it used? We used to have right of access through our garden, which was mid terrace. There was a gate in the fence on either side, but I padlocked them and no one ever used them in the five years that we lived there.
It could be this is one of those technicalities that turns out to be a non issue
dbadger
christianSpaceman
This picture should provide the gist- the bridleway runs through the gardens in this block of houses
I'm not concerned about ramblers or horses, but what restrictions are in place if I want to work on the house and garden