How to purchase/obtain small parcel of unregistered land?

darkwarrior

greatcrested said:

No. The date for compulsory 1st registration of land varied according to location and (broadly) covers 1970s - 1990ish

You've already been linked to information on adverse possession, so I'm not sure what more you expect here.

If I should try fencing it off in some manner or just apply for adverse possession because I've been maintaining it for so long.

lincroft1710

If you want to own the land you will have to apply for adverse possession

DCFC79

darkwarrior said:

DCFC79 said:

davidmcn said:

darkwarrior said:

So based on advice from this forum, I contacted the land registry, identifying the land as cleary as I could using Google maps, streetview and deeds, and it has come back that no one owns that land. It's all a bit legal-ese for me but it says

"No registered estate, caution against first registration or application for first registration or application for a caution against first registration is shown on the index map in relation to the property. We therefore hold no records in respect of the property."

That doesn't mean no one owns it, it means nobody has a registered title to it. There could be an owner with an unregistered title. As it sounds like it formed part of the development you live on, at the very least I would expect the original developers owned it. You haven't linked to your earlier threads so I won't repeat stuff about adverse possession etc in case we're going over old ground.

Thread 1
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6167891/find-out-who-owns-a-driveway#latest

A thread from 4 years ago on same subject
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5454414/can-i-claim-land-behind-my-house#latest

I don't remember that original post but it is for a different piece of land adjacent to the driveway. At the time I just wanted to ascertain our right of way. Now I want the driveway. The main difference is I've done the investigating now to try and find the original owner(s).

I see, my bad. It sounded like the same subject.