Land Registry query

[Anonanonandon]

I will keep this as short as I can. DH and I are in the process of selling our three storey house and buying a bungalow a few doors down (we are getting on a bit).

The Land Registry plan for the bungalow has come through, and the footprint of the building is incorrect: the plot is correct. I raised this with our solicitors who said that Land Registry could just be slow in updating their plans. However the bungalow was built in 2001 and I doubt that Land Registry is 23 years behind.

Because the two properties are so close together, the bungalow appears on the Land Registry plan for our current house. Bizarrely 'our plan' shows the correct footprint for the bungalow.

Can anyone shed any light on this for me please and should I be concerned.

Thank you for reading

No, you should not be concerned. Land Registry title plans are not updated every time a building is altered.

The key element on the plan is the red edging. That shows the full extent of the land being purchased, make sure that is 100% correct. The buildings on the land are not as important.

Yeah, Land Registry plans can be that out of date. Some of them are based on ordnance survey maps from the 70s. I wouldn’t worry so long as the plot is right.

Go online and look at the Index Map. This is a free search. That will give you the most up to date layout and will hopefully show all of the plots in the correct places.

The clues in the name in many ways, Land Registry - we register the land rather than what’s on it so that what’s built, extended, demolished etc has no impact on the registered extent/general boundaries as mapped with the red outline
Land becomes property when it’s built on but as the title plan is mapped to show the general boundaries changes to the physical features within the red outline don’t need to be shown or updated. Only time they will be is if there’s a change to the registered extent for example if part of the garden is sold. That will often trigger new plans for both the seller’s title and they new buyer’s title as well.

Thank you all for your responses, they have put my mind at rest.

I still find it bizarre that the two plans have different footprints for the same, though.

Two title plans mapped at different times using different OS base maps. Very commonplace and in no way bizarre as it has always been thus.
OS survey and map the physical features in place at time of survey. Updates to OS detail usually only happen when there is significant development in the area, for example new houses built but not every time there’s an extension.
An properties are registered for the first time on sale in most cases. So one property sold in say 1980 and registered could have a very different OS detail for the area to when say another was sold and first registered 10 years later.
The only thing that hasn’t changed in that time are the legal boundaries and also the general boundaries that we register.