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District council finds life's a beach: How registration helped Bexhill
Few of us, on a day at the seaside, stop to think who owns the beach. Usually they belong to the crown, but at Bexhill it's different: the council owns everything down to the low-water mark. And when David Edwards, legal services manager of Rother District Council, came to register the council's land, another, unexpected, anomaly came up.
"There was a strange circular area which wasn't included in the unregistered title of the council", says David. "As a result of the exercise we were able to identify and correct this so that the council is now registered as the owner of that land."
"There are various benefits of voluntary registration", he explains. "You get a nice neat title which is a concise statement of all that affects a piece of land like restricted covenants and rights of way. It does offer you a degree of protection against squatters. The plan is on an Ordnance Survey base, so is much easier to relate to computerised land records than a freehand plan."
David was pleased with his service and value for money from Land Registry. "We paid about £750 for all 80 pieces of land that were subject to voluntary registration. At the end of the day we felt it was a worthwhile investment." |
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