Heights and boundaries

[Dibs-h]

Well the land has been used by previous owners of my house since the 1940's at least.
The only access is via the private service road to the rear of my property.
My next door neighbour has been succesful in obtaining the title to the plot behind his property and I am 7 years into my claim.
Can't remember the legal name basically it belongs to the Crown and must be claimed from them. I am not garden snatching :lol:
It will take another 17 years to get Freehold title though.
Thats an awful lot of workshop time

That's a lot of time to build it.

Is there any chance that the Crown might be amenable to a nominal payment for it? I'd rather pay a nominal sum and get my hands on it rather than wait 17 yrs.

 

[Tom K]

No the Crown cant sell it they dont hold any deeds either. Thats why you have to through the claim process.
Some of the relevant laws were actually invented to justify robbing the Native Americans of land back when Murrica was a colony.
Part of the claim involves proving that you make use of the land and making it known that you are staking a claim for it.

 

[Dibs-h]

No the Crown cant sell it they dont hold any deeds either. Thats why you have to through the claim process.
Some of the relevant laws were actually invented to justify robbing the Native Americans of land back when Murrica was a colony.
Part of the claim involves proving that you make use of the land and making it known that you are staking a claim for it.

Apologies if this is going slightly off topic for anyone.

Tommo - are you saying that this land is not only unregistered (i.e. nothing recorded at Land Registry) but that no-one apparently has a bundle of old-fashioned paper deeds gathering dust, saying they own it - i.e. trully non-owned land?

I always thought that land was always owned in England - just not always registered at the Land registry.

 

[Tom K]

Yes the land had been orchards before houses were built late 20's early '30's when it was sold off to various builders a strip of land was left
that at its widest point about 15 metres has a large bungalow built on it.
and extends to a length of say a quarter of a mile.
At its narrowest end point drops to say 5 metres. This has been subdivided and enclosed along its length.
The original owner of the bungalow collected rents on the land until the mid 60's when he died and it was discovered that he had no deeds and the land was not registered at that point people enclosed it.
Mine is the last remaining plot measuring a very useful 114 square metres.

 

[Dibs-h]

Yes the land had been orchards before houses were built late 20's early '30's when it was sold off to various builders a strip of land was left
that at its widest point about 15 metres has a large bungalow built on it.
and extends to a length of say a quarter of a mile.
At its narrowest end point drops to say 5 metres. This has been subdivided and enclosed along its length.
The original owner of the bungalow collected rents on the land until the mid 60's when he died and it was discovered that he had no deeds and the land was not registered at that point people enclosed it.
Mine is the last remaining plot measuring a very useful 114 square metres.

Cool.