Boundary for Semi detached

Wicklowrider

Can anyone tell me where I can check my semi detached house garden's boundary? We've had a big hedge separating us from next door ever since we moved here 23 years ago so I'm not sure where the divisions is.
thanks

234

Is your land registered or unregistered?

Wicklowrider

I'm not sure if its registered or not, I'm clueless about this sort of thing and don't know what registered means. I have just sent away today for the deeds
but doubt they'll show the boundary clear enough.

EDIT - Problem is that my neighbor has paid a third party to remove the dividing hedge. I gave my permission on the understanding that a new hedge would replace it. Now the neighbor is claiming aprx 2 feet of what was my garden and is planting the new hedge there.

dermot_sheehan

land registry maps only show existence of title and aren't conclusive evidence of boundary.

It depends who planted the hedge. If it was planted on the boundary with permission of both parties, then both parties own to the centre. If it was planted on your neighbor's land, then he owns to the edge of the hedge.

Victor

I wouldn't allow them plant just yet. I would look at all the evidence before doing anything final. However, you still need to live next door to these people.

It might be fuzzy. As Dermot says, if the hedge was on their land, it is still their land. However, any land beyond the hedge on your side, you could claim adverse possession of. this may start a row.

If the hedge was always on their land, let them keep it on their land, not on the boundary.

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There was a case like this about 10 years ago, where a fence was put on one side of a drainage ditch, where years later the fence erector tried to claim adverse possession over the the land on which the ditch lay. Judge ruled you can't occupy a drainage ditch, so you can't claim adverse possession.

Wicklowrider

Thanks for your advice everyone. Resolved now in a reasonable manner