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What is a Title Plan?
Added: (Fri Oct 23 2009)
A title plan is an easy way to see information relating to a property. It provides you with the Title number which is unique to that property. Title plans are prepared on the latest Ordnance Survey map available at the time of registration and are not updated as a matter of course.
What does your title plan show?
Your title plan shows:
• the title number of the land
• the land included in the title which is normally edged in red. There may be other colours or markings on the plan. The significance of these is explained in the register
• the scale at which the plan is drawn
Does the title plan show my boundary?
The word boundary has no special meaning in law. In land ownership, it is understood in two ways:
• the legal boundary - is the line which is not visible on the ground which divides one person's land from another's. It is an exact line having no thickness. It is rarely identified with any precision either on the ground or in the deeds.
• the physical boundary – is a physical feature such as a fence, wall or a hedge.
The legal boundary may be intended to follow the physical boundary, but this is not always the case. For example, the legal boundary may run down the centre of a hedge, along either of its sides, or anywhere within or beyond it.
How do I find out who owns the boundary features?
The register will only show information concerning the ownership of boundary features where this information was available in the deeds lodged for registration.