OT find out who owns a bit of garden

Where i live with have no pathways at all, but the first 6' of our
gardens we do not own, therfore Comtel (years ago) were able to come
along and install cable broadband etc and then put the grass back as it
were, many of us for over 27 years have been treating this area as ours
by cutting the grass and caring for the land, how do you find out
exactly who owns this bit of land?

It might be the original builder, or even the local council but i would
like to know.

Thanks
Alan

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Build a shed on it, then wait and see who comes along to complain?

No, I have no idea!

 

Land registry? Alternatively you can fence it off and, after seven
years, claim it as yours through unchallenged continuous use.

<waits for lawyers>

 

Should've lobbed a fence around it and hoped no-one would notice for 7
years.

 

They won't come, coz you're right. A pal of mine lost a tract of land behind
his house because a neighbour fenced off an area he wanted. 7 years later,
it was his and there was **** all my pal could do.

He moved shortly afterwards anyway, so it wasn't a loss in the greater
scheme of things.

 

****. I'd have been lobbing petrol bombs through his living room window.

To get away from a cuntish neighbour?

 

There was something similar a couple of years ago - some bod had been
squatting in a *very* nice house (council owned? I unremember) in
London for 12 years or whatever the time was, and it was his.

 

IIRC it's one of the oldest bits of extant case law in Archbold.
Something along the lines of "If farmer Giles is too stupid to realise
that a parcel of land is his then he don't deserve it".

 

The locals in la France profonde can get very touchy about land and
boundaries. Ours is all defined on an official plan but divided up in
to five separate parcels. The owner of the land next door has given some
of his to his daughter (including some to build a new house on), but he
came to see us with a view to simplifying the boundary between us which
was a bit like a dog's hind leg. From what he said if a neighbour so
much as let a fence post veer half a metre from the official line he
would have them up before some kind of tribunal or some such before you
could say knife unless they moved it. In the end we did a deal which
exchanged some of our land for his to create a nice straight boundary,
mainly marked by a row of ancient trees. The land in question is mostly
quagmire except in the very height of a dry summer, so it was all a
pretty academic exercise. Did cost both of us a few euros for the new
plan to be drawn up and registered with the commune, but it saves me
having to maintain a rickety boundary fence.

As to the OP's enquiry, it sounds like communal land which the LA
(possibly Highways Dept) may own. After 27 years it might be hard to
find the original plans for the development (open plan front area by the
sound of it) but worth trying the LA first. If they say it isn't theirs
then a Land Registry enquiry submitting a plan is probably the only way
forward (at a cost).

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All my pal had to do was remove the fence. Would've taken about 5 minutes.

Oddly, they were mates for a long time, but the real reason was to get away
from his wife.

 

The neighbour's wife?

 

Fortunately not.

 

Nice. Well apart from it being in London, that is, although it's probably
worth a fortune.

 

You're not with Samuel Johnson then?

Heathen!

 

That sounds like "Adverse Possession", apart from the 7 years bit
(it's 12 years for adverse possession).

It's not been quite as simple as "Fence it off for <x> years and it's
yours" since the Land Registration Act 2002 which requires that the
Land Registry tells the registered owner (if there is one) that some
scrote is trying to nick their land and giving the registered owner
time to evict said scrote.

Cheers,

John.

 

Interesting, theres a row of trees and some land behind my house that I
would love to have, about 10 feet or so.

Now, if i fence it off and no one challenges it, then how do you claim
after the 7 years and how do you prove it was fenced for the specified
time then?

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Since some pikey managed to snag a few acres of woodland around his
caravan in the middle of Stockbroker County, iirc. Right fuss at the
time.

 

My ex claimed something like 120 square metres of garden off Anglian
Water simply by moving the fence when she had a new one erected and
having the date she did it recorded by a friendly solicitor type chap
who lives up the road. Almost doubled the size of the garden.

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