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Default Marking boundary in Tarmac.

On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:24:22 +0100, Stuart
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|On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:20:05 +0100, Dave Fawthrop
wrote:
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|My new neighbour, with whom we have cultivated good relations by lending
|him tools etc. etc. has renewed his side of the ?joint? tarmac drive.
|The boundary was marked by the remains of the lone gone fence. Which is
|now covered by tarmac to a few of inches on my side, which is a great
|improvement so I am not complaining, but I have apparently lost a few
|inches of land. I had previously marked the boundary at both ends by
|chisel marks in concrete, so a bit of string will tell me where it is.
|
|Has any one any good ideas as to how I could re-mark the boundary?
|I was thinking of whacking thin line with a bolster.
|
|
|Could you not get your half tarmac'd as well..?
|
|
|On this particular point I have often wondered exactly how boundaries are
|marked.
|
|What I mean is if this is a drive between two houses ,somewhere ..Land Registry
|perhaps ?...there must be a drawing to show exactly where the land of one
|neighbour ends and the land of the next door neighbour begins . How is this
|delineated (sp) .Do they show a distance from one house to the boundary .
|
|What would happen if ,for example,the house was destroyed in an explosion and
|had to be pulled down .What would they use as a marker then ?

I looked at the plans and they are not accurate enough to be useful.
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