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Hi
Does anyone know if the copies of Title Plans are accurate or not as to where the red line shows the boundary.
I have a complete moron living next door to me now and there is a path between the two houses. With all previous owners we have just accepted it as a share path although there is no access into their rear garden from the path.
Now this moron has a rottweiller that is not looked afte properly and only has a 4ft fence between the path and his garden. He throws bags of dog excrement and pther rubbish on to the path and lets them lie there for days before moving them.
His child runs up and down the side path with other neighbourhood kids chasing my two cats. They also seen to think that my front garden is an extension of their own.
I moved the bins on the side path to give the cats a fighting chance of getting away from these kids and he has just stood and swore very load at me f's & c's about him not being able to get down the path. He has no reason to be down there anyway. Which I mentioned and he has threatened to set the dog on the cats and kill them next time he sees them.
We had alreasdt downloaded the title plans from the Land registry website and the red line on he plans show the path to belong to our house in full and thathis boundry ends with the wall of his house.
Before we show him this though I want to be more or less 100% that the land inside of the red line does belong to me.
Generally the red boundary lines on Land Registry title plans are drawn
at a scale that represents 6 feet, in other words those red lines are 6 feet wide
so if the amount land in dispute is LESS then 6 feet you cant really do much legally
except try to come to some sort of agreement with the other owner, which if he's a moron will be
tricky :/
the land the red line is drawn on is yours, and the land inside the red line is yours,
but you have to take into account that the margin for error on the placement of
the red line itself is 6 feet on a title plan drawn at 1/1500 scale
I would suggest contacting the Land Registry over the phone and explain
the situation to them.
Land Registry plans are usually at 1:2500 for rural areas, 1:1250 for urban areas with inserts at 1:500 if required. Standard engineering scales. See Land Registry Practice Guide 40
Thanks for the advice, since I posted it has all come to a head. My husband stopped him and tried to sort the situation out explaining that we intended to put a fence around our front garden and were of the understanding that the path was part of our garden and we didnt find it acceptable to have to climb over bags of dog dirt and rubbish to get to our bins on the occassions that we could get to them (when the dog wasnt in the garden and growling at us) He became very aggressive and told us that if any fence went up he would have it smashed down and we would regret it. When we said that any acts of that sort would be reported to the police he PROUDLY advised that he had been in trouble with the police all his live and wasnt bothered. We know that our other neighbour had over heard his outburst as she opened her window to hear better. We decided to leave it and we intended to speak to a legal adviser. In the meantime his wife came home and within seconds knocked at the door. Thankfully she is a lot more civilised than he is and apologised for his behaviour of both days. She agreed that the dog growling at us wasnt acceptable and nor was the rubbish on the path. She also accepted that the kids using our garden as a park would clearly be annoying to. All the time she was apologising he was still mouthing off but she kept telling him to be quiet. She told us that if he retaliated in anyway then she would throw him out (wouldnt be the first time) ANyway next day 6ft fence around the back garden that adjoins the path so we can go to our bin safely. He wasnt happy about it and the language whilst he was doing it was savoury to say the least but its done. They have also moved their bins off the path even though we told them they could leave them there for now as long as the rubbish went straight into them and not left lying on the ground.
All in all it has worked out well although I am quite sure that he will be very off hand if we meet in the street, but quite honeslty I would rather have nothing to do with some one who thinks its clever to brag about having a criminal past.
You need to check the deeds of your house which would be more definitive on the ownership of this strip of land. Ask for a copy from your mortgage lender or you should have if there is no mortgage. Your solicitor should have discussed this with you when you bought the house and given you a copy.
Land Registry Boundary Lines
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