any Surveyors out there?

[apache]

Can anyone tell me what 'Highway Boundary' written on stone inserts on a pavement means please?

[loserkid]

It means eveything to the road/pavement side of that block is part of the highway (eg not yours!) everything to the other side is part of the property.

[CarZee]

Seems uncharacteristically sensible to delineate the boundary like that.. don't think I've ever seen it..

[apache]

cheers loserkid

[loserkid]

CarZee said: Seems uncharacteristically sensible to delineate the boundary like that.. don't think I've ever seen it..

They have them all over the estate I used to live on. And some bloke still tried to build on it without permission!

[Tony Hall]

Kind of guess that it was a newish estate without footways. These markers would probably be 2metres behind the kerb. The land between the kerb & the marker would be grass, classed as a service strip, for all the utilites, adopted by the highway authority, (but entrusted to the house owner to maintain). You can usually plant ground cover plants etc but not walls, fences trees etc. The utility companies have the right to dig up their services within that strip without reimbursement if needed. These markers are a good idea, most developers don't use them and many local highways authorities don't ask for them.

Bet after all that I'm wrong in this case, but I work in a Consulting Engineers and draw housing estate layouts/road networks/drainage etc. BUT blame the architect for the crap layout that I have to make work