On 14/01/2019 09:03, Jez Nicholson wrote:
I have summarised this discussion at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Property_extents_in_the_United_Kingdom
"A property owner is legally required to maintain property boundaries such as fences. This is intended to minimise disputes. So, being able to manually survey a reasonable property extent is feasible."
That is either not true, or the law has fallen into disrepute. With the car parkification of front yards, boundary features in front yards are a dying species. That definitely applies to the private/adopted land boundary, but also commonly applies to neighbouring properties.
Boundaries of properties fronted on roads technically extend to the middle of the road, at least for residential roads, and I have never see those marked.
Private/adopted boundaries are often very difficult to see in shopping areas, such that most people think that environmental crime is the responsibility of the council when it is actually on the shop forecourt, and the responsibility of shopowner. The boundaries between private forecourts of shops can be even more difficult to see there may be a change in surface, or a single line of block paving at the adopted land boundary, but not between shops.
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