The Land Registry Boundary
This is shown as red edging on the inside of the black line drawn by Ordnance Survey and shows the extent of the property ownership.
There is no single boundary document that can be obtained to resolve a boundary dispute. Rather, all the available Land Registry documents for each property should be studied, together with common law boundary presumptions and the illustrated and detailed guide that we provide.
The legal boundary is an imaginary line drawn to represent the division of two properties. The physical boundary may be slightly different, and is produced by using features on the ground such as hedges, ditches, and walls. The boundary of a physical feature will normally pass along its centre, or to one side of it.
This is shown as red edging on the inside of the black line drawn by Ordnance Survey and shows the extent of the property ownership.
Our Boundary Search is a collection of all the available Land Registry documents for each property adjoining the disputed boundary, together with a handbook of common law boundary presumptions within a detailed guidebook that includes examples of clauses relating to property boundaries.
Disputes are forever occurring with regard to assigned parking spaces in leasehold estates, particularly where more than one space has been assigned. Identification is made easy when the developer marks each space with flat numbers, but unfortunately this is often not the case.
Our Rights of Way Search provides details of all public and private Rights of Way affecting the property. As well as providing copies of the relevant Land Registry documents for the adjoining properties over which a private right of way exists we also provide environmental searches that give detail of public rights of way and common land affecting the property.
There are several ways to define a property boundary and once this is understood at least you will know what to look for in determining the boundary positions.
Each property has a legal boundary and a physical boundary. The legal boundary is a notional boundary line drawn between the adjoining properties, a line that has no thickness and that is used by Ordnance Survey to denote the division between the properties. The Land Registry will place a red line along the inside perimeter of the legal boundary to illustrate the general extent of the property owned.
The physical boundary is identified by using surface features such as hedgerows, ditches, rivers, fences and walls. Sometimes the physical boundary is described as running along the centre of a ground-based feature, and sometimes as being on its left or right.