Property Boundary Lines .........

[Gizmonster]

My mother has owned her bungalow for approx 2 years now and a new neighbour has moved in, with whom she's now having a dispute over the boundary line.

I've made a rough sketch of the area, so it's easier to explain:

http://www.upl.co/uploads/Moonbeam/Boundary-lines.png

My mum's bungalow is marked Y and the neighbour is marked X.

The neighbour is altering his drive and plans to extend it over onto my mum's side by approx 20", claiming it's his land. He says the bushes are his and on his land which, if correct, would make his side wider than my mum's. We've looked at the deeds and they're so small they don't help.

I would have thought that the boundary line would be a straight line half way between points A and B and C and D.

Where can we find the exact boundary lines without it costing my mum an arm and a leg??

[Old_Geezer]

One might have thought so, but these things get rather expensive to fight, don't they :-( I doubt records of the accuracy needed, exists. Maybe the council has rules for shared gap construction ?

[Buenchico]

There is almost certainly no exact record of the boundary's location available anywhere. It's not just me saying that; it's what the Gov.uk site says too:
https://www.gov.uk/your-property-boundaries

This blog post from Adam Hookway (Customer Policy Manager at HM Land Registry) says much the same thing:
https://hmlandregistry.blog.gov.uk/2018/02/27/drawing-the-line-on-boundaries/

I certainly wouldn't assume that the boundary is formed by a line midway between AC and BD. The (1970s) house I live in is part of a square block of four. The block is square, each house within it is square and the whole arrangement is as geometrically logical as it's possible to be. It would therefore seem 'obvious' that the boundary between my property and a neighbouring one would be formed by a line starting from the point where our walls meet and running at 90 degrees to the common wall. However, until I sold part of my garden to the neighbour, the boundary actually ran at a 110 degree angle to my house's wall, apparently just because the builders decided that's where it should be!

If your neighbour owns the dividing bushes, he might actually have a valid case (although proving ownership of the hedge wouldn't, in itself, prove ownership of the land upon which they're growing).

You might get some further information from examining the title plan of the neighbour's property (as well as your mother's one). It'll only cost you £3, so it could be worth a look:
https://eservices.landregistry.gov.uk/eservices/FindAProperty/view/QuickEnquiryInit.do

I'm sorry that this post doesn't really take you very far forward but, as I've indicated, there can be no definitive answer to your question.

[Gizmonster]

Thanks for the replies.
I was hoping for something more conclusive but hey ho, that's life I suppose.
Time to scratch around and dig a lil' deeper me thinks.

[Tuvok]

How old is the house - it may appear on old maps ot ordnance survey maps.

[Tuvok]

https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/