Land registry anomaly when buying house

[anonymous-user]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 04 February 2025 at 12:26

[sherman]

Do you plan on being there long term?
Fence it in and claim ownership after 7 years.
I doubymt anyone will notice unless your on the corner plot.

[Actual]

It may depend on what actually borders your boundary and how neighbours and the public will interact. Can you show a wider view plan?

[normalbloke]

I had a similar situation when buying a property 5 years ago. The official boundary line differed slightly from the boundary we were shown on site, when we specifically asked the question. Resolution was fairly straightforward, the developers solicitors issued amended documents, to our solicitor, but also had to amend the plans to reflect the now different communal area to all other residents. It’s only took a week to rectify from our perspective. Our area was slinky bigger, prob 2.5 car spaces or so.

[normalbloke]

There were no additional costs from our perspective.

[Neddy Sea Goon]

Just to consider, if it's not yours, you,'ve no control over it

Hello and welcome to a new phone mast, telegraph pole, data cabinet or whatever.

I'd get it amended

[mdw]

If it's easy to do now you would be mad not to.

[NWMark]

Neddy Sea Goon said:

Just to consider, if it's not yours, you,'ve no control over it

Hello and welcome to a new phone mast, telegraph pole, data cabinet or whatever.

I'd get it amended

This is a very good point, has it been done like that on purpose, is there a lampost there? comms access hatch, sewage drain etc?

[hidetheelephants]

Is there anything physical to indicate it, like a change in the landscaping, a flowerbed, shrubs etc? It's not like it would be of value to anyone other than that house, even No.1 can't make much use of it.

[Actual]

LR90 said:

Actual - here's a better view of the layout.

Interesting as there doesn't seem to be a logical reason for that piece of land and is there anything physical to delineate it?

I realise that in this day and age home buyers have to put up with this stuff but the layout of that development is so random and illogical and means that common sense can't be applied to any ambiguity.

Your land could have been huge if a chunk had not been given to No 1 and their land would still have been as large as some others.

Also I am intrigued that your property is depicted in 2 colours with a dotted line across which may indicate access rights so does it have significance?

How do you feel about your car parking spaces being opposite and being surrounded with so much shared land? There is never enough parking so what stops parking on the shared area that is not designated parking? Where do 4, 5 and 6 park as there are only 2 more spaces for 3 houses? How do visitors know not to park in your 2 spaces?

You may own those 2 car parking spaces but do other properties have right of access?

New build layouts seem to be full of these ambiguities. At a previous property of detached houses a house side wall with it's foundations was the garden boundary of other property and all the neighbours' gutters encroached on other gardens and so any boundary plan was meaningless. Neighbours can start disputes over every last cm of land and the developers don't care a bit about this stuff.

[dickymint]

Have you looked at the title deeds/boundary for No.1 ?

[roadie]

The developer have made things easy for themselves by essentially including the land in your garden. The developer of our estate has done something not dissimilar with our front garden, which is bounded by a hedge against a path into the public open space rather than being set back by a metre or so.

[Thats you there]

Can you ask for a slab surround to your parking spaces to give you something to step onto out of the car.
It also stops whoever owns the ground surrounding the spaces erecting fencing or planting jaggy bushes close to the cars

[Actual]

That parking is great and you could squeeze 4 cars on that parking area. Do neighbouring houses have adequate parking? Do people park on the road and could they park outside your front door? Hmm Sorry I may be obsessed with parking.

[hidetheelephants]

I can see why you want that plot to be included with the house, it's probable that the management co wouldn't do anything adverse but equally it's more or less 25% of the front garden. Worth speaking to the developer for sure.

[dickymint]

hidetheelephants said:

I can see why you want that plot to be included with the house, it's probable that the management co wouldn't do anything adverse but equally it's more or less 25% of the front garden. Worth speaking to the developer for sure.

Handy spot to keep the bins on too

[GreatGranny]

Looking at it in context it wouldn't bother me at all.