Further to the above, you will find below an extract from the minutes of the meeting where John Fern, Highways Inspection Manager for the London Borough of Hillingdon, addressed residents to give an accurate description of the status of The Drive (South) with regards to use and restrictions on the road as a privately maintained public highway.

...............If a road has been used by the general public for many years, it becomes a public highway, and almost all public highways within the Borough have been adopted by the public - the Council, who maintained these public highways through funds raised from the Council Tax.   However, there were a small number of privately maintained public highways such as The Drive Ickenham within the Borough, which really have the worst of all worlds, having to maintain their carriageway for use by the public as a public highway.  Uninterrupted access to Uxbridge Golf Course would have been sufficient usage to justify that The Drive Ickenham is a public highway.  The Common Law states, once a public highway, always a public highway.  Therefore, no tolls, barriers, restriction or closure of The Drive can take place whatsoever to impede the use of the road as a public highway.