Title Plans

What is a Title Plan?

Under rule 5 of the Land Registration Rules 2003, the property register of an estate will contain a description of the registered estate.

The purpose of the title plan is to support the description of the registered estate in the register by providing a graphic representation and identifying the general extent of the land in a registered title.

The Title Plan must be based on the Ordnance Survey map and illustrates the extents of property ownership. The area contained within the property title is shown by the thick red boundary. Everything within the red edging forms part of the Title.

Is there a required format?

The Land Registration Act 2002 gives clear guidance that all plans submitted to the Land Registry must meet a required standard. The plan itself will form part of the application which is likely to be drafted by your solicitor or planning consultant.

The basic requirements include being to an appropriate scale, featuring a North arrow, and a clear outline to identify the site.

How accurate are they?

As the title plan is based on Ordnance Survey data, the accuracy can only be as good as the data provided.

It is also important to remember that a title plan is usually at 1:1250 scale. This means that 1mm on a plan could represent 1.125m in reality.

It is for this reason that title plans are only suitable to show the ‘general boundary’ and cannot be used to accurately determine a boundary in the event of a dispute. For this a determined boundaries application will be needed update the Land Registry on the precise location of a boundary.

*Speak to your solicitor for further information relating to determined boundaries.