Shall we skip searches?

davidmcn

tim_london said:

the solicitor (and you) needs to know who owns which piece of road.  For example how do you know if the piece of land outside your house is private vs council managed and whether there is a risk that legally you cannot access the property because you'll need to trespass private land etc.

Road adoption results in searches very rarely throw up any surprises - invariably you're either dealing with an obviously public road, or a road which everybody agrees is privately-maintained (and you'd generally then be getting details from the managing agents of what they look after), or you're up a rickety track which nobody is looking after...

wls52

Like someone else said, depending on where you are the searches might not take that long to come back. Ours only took 10 days to come back. 

coronacaution

Thanks everyone for sharing your knowledge! Appreciate it