Afternoon All,
At the end of my garden their is a a plot of land of which is unregistered/unclaimed, with zero access and is fenced off. this is an ideal plot for me to build a summer house, but i dont want to build it and then be told i need to take it down again, especially as i will either have the expense of filling in the ditch, or creating a raised foundation for the summer house.
My neighbours have over the years taken up this land and my plot is the last to do so.
the plot is an old ditch that was used to drain the fields before sold to developers in the 60's and subsequently my house was built on.
the field beyond the ditch wasn't sold and the farmer never used it before renting it out to someone to store their horse.
The story goes from the previous owners is that originally the garden was half the size it is now (the garden is in 2 levels now) and was originally only the higher level, the lower level was owned by the farmer still but had this ditch running though the middle, so the farmer said to all the houses they can have the land upto the fence of the horse field, so the street duly took him up on the offer. however the owners of our house didn't want the hassle of filling in the ditch so only took upto this while the rest of the street took it all.
the previous owners have used this patch of land for storage and burning of items and made reference to this fact in the solicitors documentation, when i bought the house 2 years ago.
Developers have now purchased the horse field along with another field and will be building houses on there eventually and have stated they will do so in 2025, they do not own this old ditch according to land registry.
how do i go about claiming this?
At the end of my garden their is a a plot of land of which is unregistered/unclaimed, with zero access and is fenced off. this is an ideal plot for me to build a summer house, but i dont want to build it and then be told i need to take it down again, especially as i will either have the expense of filling in the ditch, or creating a raised foundation for the summer house.
My neighbours have over the years taken up this land and my plot is the last to do so.
the plot is an old ditch that was used to drain the fields before sold to developers in the 60's and subsequently my house was built on.
the field beyond the ditch wasn't sold and the farmer never used it before renting it out to someone to store their horse.
The story goes from the previous owners is that originally the garden was half the size it is now (the garden is in 2 levels now) and was originally only the higher level, the lower level was owned by the farmer still but had this ditch running though the middle, so the farmer said to all the houses they can have the land upto the fence of the horse field, so the street duly took him up on the offer. however the owners of our house didn't want the hassle of filling in the ditch so only took upto this while the rest of the street took it all.
the previous owners have used this patch of land for storage and burning of items and made reference to this fact in the solicitors documentation, when i bought the house 2 years ago.
Developers have now purchased the horse field along with another field and will be building houses on there eventually and have stated they will do so in 2025, they do not own this old ditch according to land registry.
how do i go about claiming this?
