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[pilman]

What has to be established in a claim of adverse possession is that there has been exclusive factual possession and an intention to possess made to clear to the world at large for a period in excess of 12 years.

That is sometimes why a previous owner's use of the land may not provide evidence...

[pilman]

An application should have been made to Land Registry to merge the lease into the freehold title when the Leaseholder acquired the freehold estate in 1999, because it is not an automatic process, since there may be a reason why the buyer wants to retain two separate titles.

If that was...

[pilman]

No, that was not what was being stated.


You have to comply with the pre-development conditions before digging a single trench will accomplish the practical start of the development.

Only then will that work be lawful as the start of operational development, which would...

[pilman]

A registered title will show the name and address of the person or company shown as registered Proprietor in Section B of the Register.

A copy of the register costing £3 can be downloaded from Land Registry's web-site using a credit or debit card.

That makes your opening sentence...

[pilman]

You are now at the start of a legal process much like a court proceeding, although you do not have to employ legal representation if you decide to represent yourself at the Tribunal hearing.

You need to treat the matter as having just started, because it will be the Tribunal that has to...

[pilman]

That appears to be the first pre-construction condition, which requires an extremely high level of compliance.
As does the second pre-construction condition.


Seeing those conditions make me glad I retired as a property developer before matters became so complicated.
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[pilman]

The word "watercourse" does not appear in Schedule 2, Part 1, Class A, of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015, "Development within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse", although it does appear in Part 11 "Heritage and Demolition"...

[pilman]

Under English law long use of a road to access a property can create what is known as a prescriptive easement in favour of the property.

Use has to be open, without force and without permission of the land-owner for a period in excess of 20 years.

The owner of the property...

[pilman]

[B]https://www.fsp-law.com/planning-per...f-development/


Note the relevance of having all pre-conditions approved of, before any work can be legally shown to be the start of the development for the dwelling granted planning permission.

I seem to...