Ordnance survey maps to buy land?

Howdy do folks.

Not really clued into the world of maps or land buying.

Effectively I live in a council estate and have a patch of greenery beside my house. I want to buy it off the council.

They have asked me to outline the area on an ordnance survey map and send it to them.

Sounds simple enough but I'm not sure where I start.

I have a map (not sure if it counts as an ordnance survey one or not) but it's from when I bought the house off them, and this outlines the boundary on my property and the surrounding properties.

Could I use this? Or am I being naive there?

I haven't had much chance to Google it or such yet as I've only been on the phone and only got the info yesterday so seen as I know pretty much nothing at all about this kinda thing I figured it'd do no harm to ask here incase anyone has been through similar at all.


Thanks in advance.

Metric Tensor

store.osi.ie

You need a "Land Registry Compliant" map. 30.75 euro. You can mark it yourself for initial discussions but you will need an engineer or surveyor to do it for you when you are legally purchasing.

Remember scale is important and most people don't print pdf documents to scale correctly. Again - not super important for initial discussions with council but vital for that actual purchase.

Gumbo

Metric Tensor wrote: »

store.osi.ie

You need a "Land Registry Compliant" map. 30.75 euro. You can mark it yourself for initial discussions but you will need an engineer or surveyor to do it for you when you are legally purchasing.

Remember scale is important and most people don't print pdf documents to scale correctly. Again - not super important for initial discussions with council but vital for that actual purchase.

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What MT says.
I’ve just done it for a friend in Dublin 11.

Cheers for the advice folks.

Went through my emails and took a bit of looking around and found I have land registry maps from the purchase of the house itself, which outlines boundaries. One showing a large section of the area, and one showing a close up of my house and it's own boundary.

I presume these will be sufficient.


Can I ask, in a mildly related line of questioning.. would i be right in saying that if you change a boundary without informing anyone, or build something you're not supposed to, if no one says anything about it in 7 years, it's accepted as the norm?

(ie if i extend my shed out onto council land and leave it for 7 years, the council can't complain? Or if i make an unofficial agreement with a neighbour to take some of their garden or drive etc, once a boundary is in 7 years they haven't the option to reverse it?

Or am I talking out my ass?

Gumbo

Deleted User wrote: »

Cheers for the advice folks.

Went through my emails and took a bit of looking around and found I have land registry maps from the purchase of the house itself, which outlines boundaries. One showing a large section of the area, and one showing a close up of my house and it's own boundary.

I presume these will be sufficient.


Can I ask, in a mildly related line of questioning.. would i be right in saying that if you change a boundary without informing anyone, or build something you're not supposed to, if no one says anything about it in 7 years, it's accepted as the norm?

(ie if i extend my shed out onto council land and leave it for 7 years, the council can't complain? Or if i make an unofficial agreement with a neighbour to take some of their garden or drive etc, once a boundary is in 7 years they haven't the option to reverse it?

Or am I talking out my ass?

Talking out of your ass in this instance in my opinion

Adverse possession is what you need to google and then relate that to Irish law around it.

Metric Tensor

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Or am I talking out my ass?

This!

What you've done is completely mixed up a whole set of planning, building control and adverse possession rules and come up with a half arsed sh!te talk type of story that an auld lad at the corner of the bar would be proud of.

The short answer is: No

The long answer is: You've got a small bit of info from the unauthorised planning rules and extrapolated it wrongly onto a whole range of other things.