Finding out neighbours boundaries etc

KellyGT

Hello All,

Basically i have a problem regarding the rear of my garden. The two gardens behind the rear of mine have a patch of land between them both (maybe 1metre in length and 0.50metre in width ) yes little i know! But basically there has been lots of rubbish dumped there from one of the gardens which is pushing on my fence and breaking it and the weeds that are growing there are pretty lethal!
Now all the other gardens up that street dont have this bit of land cornered off like they do, on the other houses it is part of both their boundaries. How do i go about finding out in writing if they are responsible for that land? So that i can show it them and ask them to get it sorted. I phoned the council they said nothing they can do and that i can purchase land registry docs online for around 6quid mark! Im struggling to find that anywhere the sites i find are very expensive.

Any help much appreciated.

iamcornholio

Just go around to the houses and ask them!

If none of them owns up, then tell them that you are claiming it and will fence it off , and ask if they object. If they object, and want to claim it, then tell them to clear the rubbish up. If not have the land register your intrest and clean it up yourself.

Otherwise spend your £6 and find out.

Or look at your own deeds and it may sow adjacent land

BTW, finding out responsibility and getting someone to tidy up their land are two completly different things. One may cost £6 the other may cost £6,000

KellyGT

There's no point me going round to just ask them without knowing myself if they are responsible. I know there is now way they can be bothered with it if they think they dont have too.
I dont want the land as part of my garden at all so no point me making anymore of a statement on that point.
I want to spend the £6 and find out thats why i'm asking where do i do this? I have a looked at my own deeds and it doesnt show in enough detail.
I would just like to be armed with the knowledge that it belongs to one of them or both of them before i ask them to tidy it up.

Gloomendoom

1m by 0.5m? I doubt if the Land Registry plans will be detailed enough to enable you to determine who owns that.

You may be lucky though.

KellyGT

Gloomendoom wrote: »

1m by 0.5m? I doubt if the Land Registry plans will be detailed enough to enable you to determine who owns that.

You may be lucky though.

Yeh that thought did cross my mind too

Basically they are semi detached houses. And they share a brick outhouse building in the middle join of the gardens. All the other houses have a fence panel behind the outhouse building still dividing the reminding land in half (before it reaches the rear of our gardens)
The people who live behind my garden instead of having the fence panel behind the outhouse dividing it in half equally they have diagonal panels going to the corner of the outhouse basically leaving the land behind it empty as such. It doesnt make sense why the only reason im being cautious and not assuming they have just been lazy is that one of the houses has even got concrete posts in to accompy that diaganol panel so they have gone to some effort to corner it off.
Sorry if that makes no sense what so ever lol its very frustrating lol

Mankysteve

The plans wont be to a good enough resolution to find out who owns the land sorry mate. I would either adopt the land or reinforce your fence panel.

ormus

as above. my deeds dont show any sort of clear scale of where the boundary is exactly.
the whole plan is only on one sheet of A4 paper.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

The plans will be fine to work it out.

But it is likely to cost you more than 1 fee.

You need to see the red line around the patch of land & that could be either plan.

The drawings are to scale & if the fences are on the boundries you will have no problem sorting out whos is whos.

Tucker

So, you don't want the land, you just want the rubbish to not break your fence panel and that's it?

Why not just panel that area with concrete panels and if you don't like that look, grow something up against it? Otherwise take the panel out and launch the rubble back over the fence from once it came over.

It hardly seems worth worrying about to me.

KellyGT

I have thought of using concrete panels just so that its stronger to take the weight. My only concern is that when i lift the fence panel out to replace it alot of the rubbish is going to fall onto me/my garden.

Im sorry if it doesnt seem worth worrying about to you Tucker but i'm the one who lives here and i'm the one its costing to replace panels and have things coming into my garden which is harmful to my children.

Last night one of the neighbours appears to have dumped more stuff there which has really annoyed me.

Yeh the boundary drawings i have for my property like you have stated are not in that great detail however it does show their gardens the same as everybody else i.e a straight dividing line inbetween and at the back (the basic retangle drawings tho) which would make sense with how it should be like everybody elses.

KellyGT

Sorry how basic but here's a paint masterpiece to help explain!

The brown is the outhouse brick building that the houses behind seem to share. The red area is the bit that has been fenced off from both gardens. Every other pair of semi detached houses on the street have the fence panels dividing equally and straight behind that brick outhouse.