"Broadback" wrote in message
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Nick Maclaren wrote:

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"Bob Hobden" writes:
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Depending on circumstances, there may be only a plan with a fairly
crude boundary. That is usually quite inadequate to show who owns
a fence - THAT information is more normally in the deeds or not
available. There seems to be no requirement on the precision of
the information that is registered, nor indeed that any information
is registered other than the boundary and the owner.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
Though my boundaries are not clearly defined, especially on the South
side where they state "to water", and the water point varies, as it
dries out in the Summer!. However what is stated I must maintain stock
proof fencing on all boundaries. That I believe is common where the
property is surrounded by agricultural land.
I may be cynical, but perhaps the Renter does not pay rent, and does not
wish you to contact them as she is hoping to get squatters rights. What
possible reason could she have for not giving you the owners details?

It may be that the tenant is responsible for all repairs and maintenance of
gates and fences and doesn't want to find out that they have to fix it! The
Original posters solicitor should have established who owned which
boundaries.
A weak point in our system which I think needs correcting, is that the buyer
frequently views the property but does not see a copy of the deeds and their
solicitor sees the deeds but not the property, a state of affairs which
resulted in some friends discovering that they did not own their back
garden!
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Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
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Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)