Hiya, thanks for your helpful reply. Sorry I was abrupt earlier, I was rushing and I shouldn’t have.

You’re right that it was motorcar=no before. I looked into it a bit more closely and this road is a bit odd. It’s on the Wainwright C2C long-distance footpath, so needs some form of public foot access, but it’s not part of the council’s definitive highways network. So on reflection, motorcar=private seems more appropriate than access=private.

I’ve changed it to that in https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/152990451

Thanks!