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You should apply for a Boundary
Search, which consists of a number of searches
packaged together to produce all of the available
information relating to your property boundaries.
You should click "Boundary Disputes"
on the blue menu, from the home page. |
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This will take you to a screen that contains
details of a number of different types of Boundary
Searches and provides the following options:
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Where there are 2 adjoining properties
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Where there are 3 adjoining properties
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Where the dispute relates to a Right of
Way or Right of Access |
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You then select the option
that is relevant for you and click the "Buy
Now" button which is located alongside the
title of the search that you wish to order. |
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This takes you to a short
application form where you provide the addresses
of the properties involved. If one of the properties
is a grass verge, village green or common it may
be common land, in which case you should select
the option to include a Common Land search. |
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You will receive the following
documents: |
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Title Register for each property |
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Title Plan for each property |
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Up to 6 Registered Documents, depending
on how many there are. |
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Common Land search (if you have selected
this option) |
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List of Common Law presumptions that apply
to boundaries in the absence of contrary agreement
(any such contrary agreement would be likely
to be contained in one of the aforesaid documents).
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| You can view a sample of these documents from
our samples
page, on the main menu. |
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| Description of documents included |
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| Title Registers |
The Title Registers refer
to the Title Plans and will provide verbal descriptions
of the properties. They will also contain either
full or brief details of any Covenants, Restrictions,
Easements and Rights of Way affecting the properties. |
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| Title Plans |
The Title Plans are based
on the Ordnance Survey and are usually provided
at a scale of 1:1250 (1:2500 in rural areas).
Title Plans offer a rough guide only to the positions
of boundaries. They show outlines of the properties
so they can be identified in relation to the surrounding
properties and also show marks and letters (if
any) referred to in the Title Registers. T marks
are often displayed and so are coloured markings.
The Title Plans and Title Registers must be read
together as coloured markings etc in the Title
Plans are always described in the Title Registers.
T marks indicate the owner or person responsible
for the boundary. The property that contains the
bar of the T is the owner or person responsible. |
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| Registered Old Deeds |
Registered Old Deeds will
only be available if the Title Registers refer
to covenants, easements etc but do not contain
sufficient details of them. In such cases the
Land Registry include them to clarify the same.
Such documents may consist of conveyances, transfers,
agreements, deeds, licences, wayleaves etc and
may stretch back to the 19th century. Up to 6
of the most relevant registered documents will
be included with the search. |
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Registered Old Deeds often
contain boundary structure notices, considerable
detail about boundary positions and ownership,
and often have detailed plans and drawings attached
to them. Sometimes these are to scale and sometimes
they contain measurements. |
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| Common Land Search (If this option is selected) |
Common Land searches relate
to areas of common land, grass verges or village
greens and state the name and address of the owner,
the rights of any commoners and a description
of the boundaries of the common land. |
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If the above documents do
not provide sufficient information to resolve
your boundary dispute you will need to employ
a specialist surveyor. He will require these documents
before he surveys the property, so at least you
will not have wasted your money. For most boundary
disputes, however, the above documents will be
sufficient. |
