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[pilman]

The freehold title probably consists of the register of title and title plan, but you will need to be provided with copies of each of the Counterpart leases so that you are aware of all of the terms and conditions imposed when the leases were granted.

[pilman]

The main one would be "Do you know what you are doing"...

[pilman]

The rebuttable legal presumption " ad medium filum viae" is that an owner with land adjoining a road owns up to the mid point of the road unless it is a public highway maintainable at the public expense when the Highway Authority will own the surface and a short distance below the surface....

[pilman]

Unless there is an easement referred to within the Lease then constant use of a right of way by a tenant cannot become legal when there is a common landlord of the two properties.

Someone will need to read through the whole of the lease to find out whether the current situation is lawful...

[pilman]

It may not seem right, but one end of a terrace will always have responsibility for the end fence or even both fences, unless the side fences erected to separate properties are shown to be party fences in a conveyance. Some of the older paper deeds did use an inward facing "T" to identify...

[pilman]

You have already answered your own question by acknowledging that there is no permitted development rights for a flat.

That means all development needs to be granted planning permission by the local planning authority.

The only concession is that a householder application costs...

[pilman]

When the application had not been decided within the 8 week period allowed for after an application has been verified by the local planning authority, the applicant can appeal to the Planning Inspectorate to have the matter decided on appeal against non determination of the application.
That is...