As i only joined so i could correct the map I'm not sure how all this works.
I live in Pine Trees Drive. It is a public adopted road.
The Drive is owned privately in that each house owns and is responsible for the road outside.
Despite attempts by the Residents Association of The Drive to prevent it being a thoroughfare the council have made it clear that, because the road has been open and used by all forms of transport for many years without ever being closed, it is a privately owned and maintained public road (not sure if I have the terminology quite correct but I was at a public meeting when that statement was made).
The residents have put up signs decaring it to be private etc. but this is not true. I don't have an issue with that. The issue I have is that the mapping app I use for cycling, Komoot, uses openstreetmap as a source. Someone has very recently edited the roads to be private and I can no longer map rides from my house. Hopefully this will now change back to how it has been for years.
