Where can I find old house deed drawings

Okydoky25

Hi,

I purchased a house a few years back from a developer who sold off the land to the back of the property to another developer a few years previous to my purchase and this land has since been built on.

On my deeds the property line is unclear due to the scale of the drawing however on the planning application for the new builds it shows clearly where the land ends and mine begins and I believe I should have another couple of meters out the back of my property which is now the new houses builds back garden fence.

It would make sense for this land to still be my land as the back of my detached garage is now used as a boundary wall. I think they have built the fence to run up to my garage instead of it being a metre or 2 behind it which would have meant I could have been able to walk around my garage if that makes sense?.

Is there anyway of find the original land sale deeds (The drawings of the land sold to the housing developer) to show exactly what was sold and what should be my land? When I have searched I can only find what I already have and is not clear enough.

AdrianC

Try a map search of the Land Registry's website.

da_rule

You can contact the Land Registry and see what deeds they hold. You can then order them using form OC2.

You could alternatively get a copy of the title register from the Land Registry. This will give an indication of what deeds the Land Registry hold.

lincroft1710

Deciding where the boundary of your property lies, should have been agreed at the time you bought your house. Even if you find your neighbour to the rear has 1-2 metres of land which now appears should have been yours what are you going to do about it? Legal arguments over land can be horrendously expensive.

Even if you did win (or even if you didn't), you would also have declare a dispute when you came to sell the house and you would have to live with a disgruntled neighbour who could indulge in some very unneighbourly behaviour.

Johnhowell

If you do get the Title Register find an entry describing the conveyance and see if there is "copy held" after it - then HMLR can provide a copy for a bit more money (£10 for each document? IIRC) This should have the original plan of the plot - which could be an extract of the original site divided up into plots. Woo hoo!

good luck,
J

Davesnave

Okydoky25 wrote: »

It would make sense for this land to still be my land as the back of my detached garage is now used as a boundary wall. I think they have built the fence to run up to my garage instead of it being a metre or 2 behind it which would have meant I could have been able to walk around my garage if that makes sense?.

What sort of sense would it make to your rear neighbour, in possession of this land for some time now?

Many people living on estates have no ability to walk right around their garage, but it doesn't affect their lives in any significant way.

By all means check out the 'facts' as you will judge them, but don't expect others to concur with your conclusions, or make it cheap and easy to act on them. If you do, it could prove an unsatisfactory, unsettling or expensive journey, taking years to resolve.

Okydoky25

Davesnave wrote: »

What sort of sense would it make to your rear neighbour, who's had possession of this land for longer than you have resided in your house?

This is a housing development site and the people who live in these houses are council tenants not the home owners. They moved in after I purchased my property as building works were still on going at the time of completion.

Many people living on estates have no ability to walk right around their garage, but it doesn't affect their lives in any significant way.

I don't live on an estate.

By all means check out the 'facts' as you will judge them, but don't expect others to concur with your conclusions, or make it cheap and easy to act on them. If you do, it could prove an unsatisfactory, unsettling or expensive journey, taking years to resolve.

Thank you but all I was asking is where best to check these details not opinions of why I wanted them or what I wished to do with them.

Davesnave

Okydoky25 wrote: »

Thank you but all I was asking is where best to check these details not opinions of why I wanted them or what I wished to do with them.

You posted on a public forum, so you must expect all kinds of replies, even from people who have been on the inside of a costly boundary dispute.

If you check carefully, you'll see that I didn't make any suppositions about your motives, other than those you stated.

Responders on MSE sometimes act as devil's advocate and bring up alternative points of view, rather than say what others want to hear. This isn't Mumsnet, and we don't swear as much as they do.