Looking at Planning Portal- we don't appear to own our driveway!

[Tansie]

FGS.

It's an estate house on a 12 year old estate so no ancient rights of way or non-registered sillinesses. I was looking at all 4 of the mapping 'services' the Planning Portal link to so you can get your 'site' and 'locality' maps downloaded for an online planning application- but they all draw on the same maps- and none show a line to delineate any of 'our' land to the front of the property! The back garden is shown, but we are the last house in a cul-de-sac and we adjoin a council owned strip of tree and shrub before the pavement and road, but there's no line separating the two (our driveway, their 'nature strip') on the 'official' map!

Planning permission was granted for an different extension on this house 4 years ago by previous owners so presumably it wasn't deemed an issue or it was just accepted that the map was wrong? It's hard to see at the locality map is fuzzy. Should I just resubmit their not very clear map as still available on the local Council's planning permission website?? Should I copy their map (more clearly) and draw the boundary line where it evidently should be??

Should I look into this further?!

When I look on my council's map I own half the PARK wish I did.

I would provide a correct map showing what you actually do own.

Or what I think I own!

The line I will draw will actually cut into the shrub stuff by 18" as that's where a pole and wire fence runs, through the bushes!

The maps on the planning portal won't show what land you own. I imagine they are ordnance survey maps so don't always show all boundaries between land in different ownership, they just show the most obvious features on the ground, they don't know who owns each piece of land so don't draw the map based on ownership. You don't need the map to show all the actual boundary lines when you submit an application, you just need to draw the red line around all land in your ownership, based on your deeds.

Planning portal maps don't show ownership- that will be on your deeds and land registry. For a planning application, you need to draw the red line around the land to which the application is relevant to- typically this is probably going to be your ownership, but before the estate was developed it would have been around that whole site if you see what I mean. You can submit your own corrected copies to the planning authority if you wish.

You can get a copy of the official Land Registry plan for I think £4

eservices.landregistry.gov.uk/www/wps/portal/!ut/p/b1/04_SjzQ0MTMzMDMys9SP0I_KSyzLTE8syczPS8wB8aPM4o2NLEwMDU2MPCyMzcwNPE3d3I0NQ0yNDbwN9INT8_RzoxwVAUzc9TQ!/