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Just as an aside - the UK land registry isn't a perfect system at all, even where land is actually registered. For example - I own a flat where the land registr

Just as an aside - the UK land registry isn't a perfect system at all, even where land is actually registered. For example - I own a flat where the land registry scan of the original long lease which legally documents what I own is incomplete. They don't keep original documents any more since they scanned everything and got rid of the originals years ago to save storage costs. Neither I or the freeholder have original copies either. Theoretically they are supposed to pay to correct this if I complain - but part of what's missing is a plan showing the extent of what I own, which opens up a potential dispute with the freeholder as to what land the lease was originally granted over and I don't really want to have a legal fight over it (and I'm not sure the land registry would cover any legal costs of a dispute). It's not a day to day issue but there's some risk there for the future.

gerdesj 3y ago
"the UK land registry isn't a perfect system at all" No shit! I was an Army brat and lived in what was called West Germany. It may have been a state thing (Nord Rhein OP) rather than a federal thing but houses often had little markers, similar to surveying benchmarks to demarcate property boundaries. In little Britain we have err the Land Registry. It's not quite as bad as you say. Since around 2007-2010 (I can't remember exactly when) plans submitted to Planning had to have a lot more detail added. For example you have to include trees and hedges but not co-ords of the boundary to 5mm from the nearest OBM. I can personally survey better than that and I'm just a Civ Eng graduate who ended up pissing around with computers. My house came with its original and subsequent conveyancing docs. It was built in the 1920s, so quite modern. The farmer who flogged off a bit of land, near to a railway line also provided a mortgage/loan to the woman who bought it. Its been through a few hands since. One of the subsequent owners lives up the road. He and his wife (she passed away recently) divided the plot, another house was built and a double garage linking the houses was added. Anyway, the Land Registry is quite loose but it works. It seems that Little Britain is quite content on a microscopic scale. We somehow manage to not get too whizzed up over boundaries too often. The boundaries somehow manage to manage themselves.

gerdesj 3y ago

"the UK land registry isn't a perfect system at all" No shit! I was an Army brat and lived in what was called West Germany. It may have been a state thing (Nord Rhein OP) rather than a federal thing but houses often had little markers, similar to surveying benchmarks to demarcate property boundaries. In little Britain we have err the Land Registry. It's not quite as bad as you say. Since around 2007-2010 (I can't remember exactly when) plans submitted to Planning had to have a lot more detail added. For example you have to include trees and hedges but not co-ords of the boundary to 5mm from the nearest OBM. I can personally survey better than that and I'm just a Civ Eng graduate who ended up pissing around with computers. My house came with its original and subsequent conveyancing docs. It was built in the 1920s, so quite modern. The farmer who flogged off a bit of land, near to a railway line also provided a mortgage/loan to the woman who bought it. Its been through a few hands since. One of the subsequent owners lives up the road. He and his wife (she passed away recently) divided the plot, another house was built and a double garage linking the houses was added. Anyway, the Land Registry is quite loose but it works. It seems that Little Britain is quite content on a microscopic scale. We somehow manage to not get too whizzed up over boundaries too often. The boundaries somehow manage to manage themselves.