Land registry question who is responsible for this wall?

Chopsy69_2

Hello everyone thanks for letting me join the forum. I'm Steve from south Wales. I have a problem with a wall at the rear of a property and I'm trying to find out who is responsible for the wall. 
Please see photo of the land registry the wall is at the rear of the property please follow the arrow. 
Any help would be much appreciated guys thanks again Steve

housebuyer143

I was told that little Ts on the boundary indicate who is responsible for what. If there are not any then it's a joint boundary.
Someone might tell me this is wrong, but my new house has Ts on some boundaries while my old one didn't and all fences were shared.

tacpot12

Title Plans do not show anything about responsibilities for the boundary walls. You need the original deeds for this. The Land Registry might have yours deeds or they might not. You will need to ask them as you can't find out online.  

doodling

Hi,

There isn't enough information there to give you an answer.

Is the wall a retaining wall separating two different land levels?  If it is then sometimes that can be used to establish responsibility as the person who has changed the height of land is usually responsible for making sure that adjoining land is unaffected.

Is the wall currently dangerous?  The easiest thing in that case might be to notify the council who will make it safe (I.e. demolish it) and they will try and find out who owns it to recover the demolition cost. 

If it doesn't fall under those two categories then why do you need to know? You could try looking at the land registry documents for adjoining properties to see if they say anything (you need to download the titles and then send off by post for any filed documents referenced in the title).

Note that in general, even if something is mentionned in the land registry documents, positive covenants are not enforceable.  This means thar even if someone's documents say they have to maintain the wall, you probably can't force them to do so (unless it is a retaining wall or actually dangerous).

Also note that in general no-one is under any obligation to maintain fences or walls - if the wall is in a degraded state, but not dangerous, then whoever owns it is entitled to just let it degrade into dust if they want to.