Property title plan question

Herbalus

(Accidentally put on the savings board as well by mistake).

I am reviewing a title plan, which says:

The land tinted pink on the title plan is subject to such restrictive covenants as may have been imposed thereon before January 2013 and are still subsisting and capable of being enforced.

What does this actually mean? Does it mean there may be restrictive covenants but doesn’t know what they are? How am I supposed to know what these are?

The house was built after 2013 and was previously local council land purchased by a developer.

I am looking at the title plan for a property I am interested in and just doing some research. Is the title plan and map the best place to start or do I actually need a copy of the deeds? I thought it best to at least do some simple due diligence before making an offer and instructing lawyers who would then tell me something like it’s a leasehold house (it’s a new estate).

Tom99

I assume you mean the title document refers to the title plan in this way?
I think the Land Reg sometimes hold copies of other documents which can be ordered for a fee.
Look up the planning consent on the LA website and see what conditions were attached to that consent.

AdrianC

Herbalus wrote: »

I am reviewing a title plan, which says:

What does this actually mean? Does it mean there may be restrictive covenants but doesn’t know what they are? How am I supposed to know what these are?

The house was built after 2013 and was previously local council land purchased by a developer.

It's very simple - there may be some covenants that were on the land already, but have been lost over the years before the land was registered with the Land Registry.

When the land was then developed, the original title (presumably registered in 2013 on sale to the developer) was parcelled into smaller titles, one of which is the one you're looking at. Those covenants would still apply, but nobody knows what they are. Perhaps the original paper deeds referred to another sheet that's gone AWOL over the decades.

We have similar on one corner of our garden, where there's the mortal remains of a house that used to be there many, many moons ago. No clue what they are, nor is there the faintest hope of anybody ever having a huff over them being breached.