Transferring Land Between Neighbours

A_Nice_Englishman

The previous owner of the house next to mine let me have some of his land at the rear in exchange for me allowing him to access his garage over part of my land at the front. He moved the fence between our back gardens but unfortunately the arrangement wasn't documented at the time.

I now want to sell my house and obviously the arrangement needs to be documented with the Land Registry. Is it possible / advisable for my current neighbour and I to deal with the Land Registry ourselves without paying solicitors to do the paperwork and a surveyor to draw up plans?

[Deleted User]

I am not sure, but you may want to try asking HERE. :beer:

clutton_2

i have always found the LR very helpful indeed - give them a call.

Debt_Free_Chick

A_Nice_Englishman wrote:

I now want to sell my house and obviously the arrangement needs to be documented with the Land Registry. Is it possible / advisable for my current neighbour and I to deal with the Land Registry ourselves without paying solicitors to do the paperwork and a surveyor to draw up plans?

If you are both in full agreement as to the land to be transferred, this ought to be a simple transaction involving Form TP1 from the Land Registry, a fee and a title plan showing the new boundaries to each property.

As already suggested, contact your local Land Registry office if you need clarification of the precise process.

A_Nice_Englishman

Thanks for all the replies. I've downloaded the forms Debt_Free-Chick linked to and will have a read.

A_Nice_Englishman

I downloaded the title plans from the Land Registry and found that they're at such a small scale it would be impossible to show the land in question at all accurately. I rang the Land Registry and, as clutton said, they were very helpful. They are sending me (free of charge) plans at a larger scale.

They said that it should be OK for me to draw on those plans rather than pay a surveyor a lot of money to do so as my solictor had suggested.

I don't understand all of Form TP1 but we'll probably have to use soliictors for the 'paperwork'. At least we can save time and money by doing the plan ourselves.

A_Nice_Englishman

Received two lots of plans from the Land Registry today. One is on normal paper and shows the boundary in the correct (i.e. new) position. The other is on tracing paper and shows the old boundaries. Both are at 1:500 scale.

Guess I will have to wait until Tuesday to ring the Land Registry and find out why they are different, which one is "right" and how to proceed. It does appear that they have saved me the cost of a surveyor though.