I've added a "citation needed". AFAIK it may only become apparent when you try to sell your house. It is one of the checks that is made by a conveyancer. It depends how strongly they like to apply the rules. One of those things that could slow down a house purchase.....but you are quite right people either don't know or ignore it....or it is no longer a requirement.
On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 11:06 David Woolley <for...@david-woolley.me.uk> wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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