Neighbours

[Leyland Claret]

I don’t think a chartered surveyor is of used to you. If you want to do it the professional way then you need to see a conveyancing solicitor, they’ll look at your deeds and hopefully identify your boundary. Depending on that conversation it might result in them having to contact your neighbours solicitors who between them should be able to identify exactly where that boundary is. A cheaper way might be to approach your neighbour and using your deeds try and agree where the boundary falls. Whichever way you go it sounds like a tactful approach will be required. Good luck with it.

It needs a topographic/boundary survey which is in the realms of a chartered surveyor not a solicitor. Regarding approaching the neighbour it will clearly not wash because he seemed to think the tree that he chopped down was in his land!

[AfloatinClaret]

Bear in mind that if you get into a dispute (s) with a neighbour, most especially if the police/courts get involved, you would be required to advise of such in the sales documentation if and when you ever come to sell said property

[Leyland Claret]

Bear in mind that if you get into a dispute (s) with a neighbour, most especially if the police/courts get involved, you would be required to advise of such in the sales documentation if and when you ever come to sell said property

They won’t be any need for any police intervention now they have in effect admitted liability. I am now just going to find out what is legally mine that belongs to my property. At the minute it is a ‘no man’s land’ of a soiled area which the neighbours think is theirs but after I get this survey done they are in for a very big shock

[LoveCurryPies]

You need to phone Special Branch.

[Big Vinny K]

It needs a topographic/boundary survey which is in the realms of a chartered surveyor not a solicitor. Regarding approaching the neighbour it will clearly not wash because he seemed to think the tree that he chopped down was in his land!

Might not be a straightforward/ simple as you think.
Topography is just the levels so don’t think that will prove anything
Boundary lines can be very difficult to define. What is shown on a title deed or at the land registry might give you an indication of where the lines are and angles etc but defining this exactly can be difficult because things change down the years as tarmac is put down, walls built, trees and plants laid etc.
The land registry are very slowly trying to define boundaries as land is bought and sold by sending ordinance survey people out with all the exact measurement equipment which can do this to the mm but that may still mean 2 parties on either side of a boundary line agreeing exactly where this should be.

Good luck and hope it gets settled quickly. Your neighbour should not have done what he did for sure.