Land Registry: locating owner lockup garage

hyperhypo

Am wishing to purchase lockup garage , a wall of which forms boundary to our house / garden. I know the Land Registry title to garage we wish to buy, but cannot find out who may own adjacent garage - as we need to reroof etc and need to advise owners.
Have used the map find on LR site but ...using aerial search at 5m radius, centred on garage in question, it only shows our nearby house at centre...which suggests that the LR has no data on the garage i'm trying to get ownership of. Any suggestions of a next move please ?

Also where the is question of who owns access roads to garages, would a local authority road search be sufficient diligence , as part of conveyancing ? We're doing this ourselves as purchase price doesn't justify cost of solicitor ...but the full local authority search is over £100, and seems a bit overthetop for a £10k garage purchase.
Interested to hear views on DIY conveyancing / Land Charges searches on this sort of purchase .... Thanks ..

davidmcn

If the local authority provides info on adopted roads free of charge (e.g. on their website) this should be just the same data which would appear on a search result. It doesn't tell you ownership though, just whether or not the road is adopted for maintenance (though if it is adopted, ownership is for all practical purposes irrelevant).

As for ownership of the lockup - who if anyone uses it? Have you tried sticking a notice on the door? Or just asking around?

Tom99

Try Nimbus Maps:
https://app.nimbusmaps.co.uk/
You should be able to see a map of all the nearby title boundaries and maybe the owner if the owner is a company.

AdrianC

hyperhypo wrote: »

Am wishing to purchase lockup garage , a wall of which forms boundary to our house / garden. I know the Land Registry title to garage we wish to buy, but cannot find out who may own adjacent garage - as we need to reroof etc and need to advise owners.
Have used the map find on LR site but ...using aerial search at 5m radius, centred on garage in question, it only shows our nearby house at centre...which suggests that the LR has no data on the garage i'm trying to get ownership of.

How likely is it that it's decades since the garage last changed ownership, so it's unregistered...?

Any suggestions of a next move please ?

Leave a note taped to the door?
Wait until somebody comes to the garage, then say "Hello"?

hyperhypo

Thanks to all so far..yes have taped a note on the door..should have mentioned that ...no reply yet though.

And i believe i can pay our local council a specific fee to do a roads search (£21) for "Roads and public rights of way" (29ConR is the Herefordshire designation)...my hunch is that it's not adopted for maintenance though...other than the 1960's era asbestos roofed garages there's only a Electricity Sub-station which would need access.
The access road is rough and evidently unloved, although one could say same for many of the rural roads around here.

G_M

Tom99 wrote: »

Try Nimbus Maps:
https://app.nimbusmaps.co.uk/
You should be able to see a map of all the nearby title boundaries and maybe the owner if the owner is a company.

Nimbus is a useful resource but takes its ownership data from the LR. So if OP has already done a map search at LR that suggests unregistered Title.

Tom99

G_M wrote: »

Nimbus is a useful resource but takes its ownership data from the LR. So if OP has already done a map search at LR that suggests unregistered Title.

It's free so no harm in trying. A Land Reg map search gives you a list of titles but you cannot see exactly where they are, unless you spend £3 per title.
A private road would probably show on the Land Reg search as 'land at...' whereas with Nimbus Maps you can see all the title plans overlayed on a OS map.
Its not perfect, some people say the title plans are shifted to the left or right, but as a free resource no-one else comes close.

hyperhypo

@Tom99....yes i'd spent an odd £3 trying to find the right title from a listing on the LR site...you get the list but have no idea which title refers to which one, particularly eg in a row of individual garages.

That said, the putting a note on the door has come right...i spoke to the owner yesterday.