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Telegraph pole stay
wrote:
Mike Barnes wrote:
Do "deeds" have any significance nowadays? I have the Land Registry
map which shows the location of the property with a red border but
that's not particularly precise.
Yes. A deed is a legal document. The Land Registry map is purely
to indicate where the plot is, it is explicitly *not* a boundary
map. As you said, it shows the *location* of the property, *not*
the *boundaries* of the property.
I've been reading up on this a little and as you'd expect most of the
writing concerns boundaries with neighbours as opposed to the highway.
AFAICS the only authority on where the road ends and your property
begins is the local council, which obviously has a certain bias, and
would naturally prefer to have authority over the verge but no
responsibility for its maintenance.
Looking at Ordnance Survey site maps it seems to me that the edge of the
highway is shown with a solid line, and any verge or pavement that is
part of the highway is separated from the rest of the highway by a
dashed line. And that that distinction is taken as fairly authoritative
when queries arise.
For most (but not all) of the lane I live on, there are no dashed lines
on the map, though in reality there is an obvious verge between the
walls/fences/hedges and the road. I'm tending to the view that the
verges are in private hands, but that's 99% speculation.
I don't know whether councils have more detailed maps available for
public inspection, as if so, whether asking to see them could open an
unwanted can of worms. Also is anything the council says going to cut
any ice with BT when they decide whether that stay is on our land or
not? And is whether it's on our land or not going to affect BT's
willingness to move it?
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Mike Barnes
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