Land registry boundary help please!

[Magstermay]

We are in the process of buying a property that has a field as one boundary. We have had the land registry plan from the solicitor and have asked her the same question, but won’t be getting a reply til Monday now and I’m impatient!
Does anyone know what the dotted line and blue area mean? The land registry site didn’t help much but I’m worried it indicates a right of way. Does anyone know?!

Is there anything on the paperwork that came with it that refers to 'land coloured blue'? It will be explained somewhere.

Could it be a path for hedgehogs? They aren’t called that but an area that can’t be built on, so you own it but can’t build on it.

Have you been given the written part of the LR? Because it should definitely be referenced in that unless the property has never been registered before?
If land has been divided up at some pieces joined together to form your plot in the title plan may still show different areas shaded to show where the different sections of land were. These may or may not been referred to in the LR plan. Where is your actual fence/hedge border? At the blue edge or the red edge?

I suspect the two different colours indicate different covenants affecting the property. It looks as though the blue land was originally part of a bigger parcel which includes the adjoining field and will be subject to one lot of covenants and the other land will be subject to other covenants.

It could be many things - but it will say in the narrative that came with the plan.

'Blue, yellow and brown are all used to identify various rights of way and pink is often used to identify areas which are subject to covenants.'

Here - www.land-registry-documents.co.uk/information/title-plan/

You can see your plot, including the blue area doesn’t match up with the line of the property No7 below. If the current fence is on the blue edge, I imagine it may mean some prior owner has taken ‘adverse possession’ of that extra sliver - or, potentially not good - fenced it in and not done so officially. If however your fence is on the red edge, it may mean someone previously moved your boundary in to follow the line of No7, and the blue section may be yours but being used by whoever owns the field. Again, potentially not good if you want it back. Either scenario could mean a border issues. Btw if you haven’t been given the written part of the LR there’s nothing stopping you going online and buying it, it’s not v expensive.

I think those hedgehog things are called wildlife strips but they tend to be in new builds only

It's what Blankscreen says. You need to read it in conjunction with the register to find out what it means. It will say something like "A Conveyance of the land tinted blue on the title/filed plan" and likewise for the pink.

Thank you everyone. We had the copy emailed to us with a notes page but there was no reference to this which is very strange!

We have a blue area on our title plan just like yours. It was simply that the owner at the time bought an extra slither of land to incorporate within the garden.

This is on our title deeds (in Charges Register C2):

"A Deed of Exchange of the land tinted blue on the filed plan dated .......... made between (1).... First Owner... (2) ... Mortgagee... (3) ... Second Owner.... was conveyed subject as follows..... "

Hope that helps.

Just wanted to add:

The red line denotes the boundaries. As the blue tinted land is within the red boundary, the land most certainly was added at a later date.

I think Judas is wrong. The land has been officially attached, otherwise it would not be shown on the filed plan at all. Someone placing a fence around some land unofficially would mean that the filed plan would not match what you see when you view the land.

Spickle yes, hopefully, but the OP needs to make sure that the LR is correct. I had a boundary issue recently when the previously unregistered land next to mine was registered incorrectly when it was sold to a new purchaser a few years ago. Neither the purchaser, their solicitor or any LR officer that may have visited, spotted the error. Of course I knew nothing about it and it only came to light years later when another neighbour was checking their own LR and came to tell me they thought something was wrong as the LR didn’t match what was clearly, and always had been, my land. Luckily it was fairly easy to resolve though it cost me money

Thank you again for all the replies, Spickle I hope you are right and they have just bought a bit more land. It is just strange there is no note that would explain it. Hopefully All will become clear next week as I certainly don’t want anyone to be able access my garden!

The LR are very helpful if you phone them, they may be able to clarify very easily.