Boundary Search
A Boundary Search includes all of the available documents for each property that are available from HM Land Registry. This would include the Title Registers, Title Plans, the Lease and Lease Plan (if relevant), all digitally held Associated Documents such as conveyances and transfers and their respective Deed Plans, a list of Boundary Presumptions and a list of Fencing Protocols.
Boundary Searches
Title Register and Title Plan
The two main documents of Title are the Title Register and Title Plan. Most situations requiring a house owner to seek out the property boundaries are quickly resolved by obtaining these two documents. Rightly so, as these are the legal documents and must be referred to before all other documents, and although these documents are not designed to resolve boundary disputes, most such can be seen in sufficient detail to obtain satisfaction. The few that require a closer look are usually resolvable with help from other available documents from the Land Registry. Very few end up in court, and those applying to the court often regret it in view of the exceptionally high legal and ancillary costs.
Boundary Search Documents
Title Registry
Title Plan
Deeds and Deeds Plans
Lease and Lease Plan
List of Boundary Presumptions
List of Building Conventions
House & Garden Boundaries Book
Apple Books
House and Garden Boundaries
The author of the book, House and Garden Boundaries, has more than 25 years experience in the field. The Book is more than 200 pages long, and deals with all aspects of boundary identification. it is fully illustrated and descriptive of all types of boundaries, including ditches & hedges, trees, hedgerows, fences, fence-wall boundaries, non-tidal rivers, non-tidal river islands and streams. The book demonstrates how to find details of express and implied boundaries from the Title Register, Title Plan, Lease, Lease Plan, Conveyancing Deeds, and deed Plans. In addition, there are details of boundary presumptions and boundary fence protocols, all of which are fully illustrated. There is a template for an Informal Boundary Agreement, which can be adapted to each reader's needs. Finally, actual examples of case studies occupy the substantial final chapter of the book.
