We provide the Title Register, Title Plan and all scanned Deeds for each property, together with details of Common Law boundary presumptions that apply where there is no contrary agreement, and a detailed Boundary Dispute handbook in PDF format. There is an option, where the property is leasehold, to include a copy of the Lease.
The Land Registry are obliged to follow the General Boundary Rule (now section 60 of the Land Registration Act 2002) which provides that the general boundary position is to be shown only. As a general rule, there is no single document that states the boundary location. The boundary is shown quite accurately but it is not precise when dealing with issues pertaining to small measurements (which most boundary disputes relate to).
The Deeds sometimes contain Boundary Structure Notices and party Wall Agreements, which will assist, and some of the Deeds may contain drawings and Deed Plans, which also provide further evidence. T and H marks often appear on Deed Plans.
All of the available documents need to be looked at together. The detailed handbook is full of examples and is provided to help you ascertain the type of clauses to look out for.
A private Right of Way ia a type of easement that allow users of a property to pass over an adjoining property. Brief details of such easements will appear in the C section of the property owner's Title Register and in the A section of the neighbour's Title Register.
A copy of the Deed creating the Easement can usually be obtained and this will provide a lot more detail.
Public Rights of Way will appear in various environmental documents which we provide with our Rights of Way Search, e.g. the Neighbourhood Report, Common Land Search and the Countryside and Rights of Way Map.
We provide all the available documents (Land Registry documents and environmental documents), and these are usually sufficient to answer all your questions.
We provide a link to our detailed and illustrated handbook on Rights of Way, which provides a wealth of information about rights of way and illustrated examples of what to look for in your documents to help you resolve your rights of way problems.