boundry

[cymruguy]

My father's nieghbour gave my father a strip of land around 8 inches wide by 25 feet long at the front of the garden, this allowed my father access around his house, and my father gave the nieghbour a similar amount of land at the rear, this was around 30 years ago. Since my both parents have now passed away I have inherited the house, the nieghbour now wants the land back, but this would seriously affect my plans to improve the house. A fter 30 years does he have any right of ownerhip over the piece of land, seeing that it was a gentlemans agreement between them. The nieghbour also told me that if I was going to live there, the land boundries would remain the same, but at the 11th hour he has decided to take the land back. What legal right, if any do I have on this land.

[Maude]

No, this is quite wrong. Go to www.landregistry.gov.uk, click on Practice Guides in the green box top right and print off LRPG004 if your land is registered or LRPG005 if unregistered. If there are queries after you have perused the relevant document post here and I will unravel.

[Toffee]

ansteyg is wrong, Maude is correct. You cannot claim adverse possession if that possession has the owner's consent. It is not adverse. Also, even if it was adverse, the situation is changed by the Land Registration Act which came into force last October.

[cymruguy]

Many thanks for your answers, you'll be pleased to hear that the problem has been resolved today using honesty and common sense. Many thanks