Thinking about this further; if the house is freehold and the garage is leasehold (personally I think it seems more and more unlikely) the garage should not have a feed provided by the freeholder from the house.
External garage electricity wrongly connected to neighbours supply
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I suggest that if you and the neighbour have a shared problem and can split the costs 50:50, then do that and don't involve the freeholder. The freeholder's only motivation is skimming off their cut, so not involving them may be in your best interest, if you don't actually need to.
Assuming that you and your neighbour are actually using the correct garages!
The lease
The leases WILL INCLUDE A Land Registry PLAN showing the garages.
That plan will show the physical location of the property the in the Land Registry lease. Regardless of any name given to it.Do you think that plan would have been drawn up before, or after they numbered the garages incorrectly?
Has there been any progress on this?, I have encountered exactly the same situation today.
I am not sure that any liabilities will always be limited by any gaurantee/warranty anyhow.
Swap garages is probably the easiest solution
One possible consideration but maybe not.
Remember The Boswells in the TV series "Bread" they owned their Grandads House and he owned theirs so both could claim More benefits supposedly? Bonkers comedy but good fun though .
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