text: Is there really no access from the footpath https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/211050988/history#map=19/51.25118/-1.09794 to Sheppard Road here?  It's possible, but seems unlikely.  If these are just "ordinary" footpaths at the side of roads without any barriers between them and the road it might be easiest to map them as attributes of the road itself - sidewalk=left/right/both .