boundry

Maisie72

How does one go about marking out a boundry.
I have sent for a copy of the plan from land registry but when it arrives I don't know who should determine where the boundry actually lies.
Our garden is has very large trees and hedges as a natural boundry.

Tom Young

One checks the deeds to ones property and see's what and where the bondaries are mentioned. One might also check to see if the boundary is noted at the land registry which would have a note of the deeds if the land is registered, that note is called a folio or folio numbers.

A surveyor or architect might or should also be required. You wouldn't just head on out with your wellies on full of cadbury's cream eggs and start marking the land and considering what is a potential boundary, that would be merely a waste of time.

ivanthehunter

A land surveyor is the only way to go, if you hire an architect he will tell you that he can sort out your problem but he will simply subcontract the work to a land surveyor.
Avoid an reference to folio maps as they are prone to errors and have no legal power to show ownership. I have seen too many horror stories involving incorrect decisions being made by the usage of said folio maps.

A surveyor will carry out a topographical site survey of your property. This will include building foot prints(positions) road alinement's and centerline of hedges and such like. He will pick up any and all boundary's. This site survey will be used to precisely mark out(on paper or computer) the measurements that he will be afforded by access to the deeds. Once he has established these boundary points in paper space he will then use this survey to aid him in an efforts to physically mark them on the ground..

Be advised that your surveyor should leave some permanent survey control(nails in concrete) points, at least two(3 is better), these will be needed at when you decide to develop. A survey should also be linked to malin head levels(levels above sea level), it should also have contours(lines showing points of equal height) at a suitable interval.. All surveys should show a reference to north and should be plotted with some photos of the current site conditions.
also request both paper plots and electronic plots of the survey, check that the show all survey stations. (survey stations are the points over which the surveyor sets up his equipment and as such it is the point(s) to which all other detail(build pts etc) relates.

The one thing to be sure of is that you go with a professional company who can work hand in hand with your own legal team.
ensure that your surveyor is prepared to survey any and all adjacent buildings as they are some times shown on deeds as a reference to measurements given.
some times a surveyor shall use his discretion to determine a boundary but the neighbour might employ his surveyor to determine the same boundary through discretion aswell. pm me if you have any survey questions