How to obtain Neighbouring Property deeds

[Pleasedontdrawonyoursister]

We live in a row of houses which have had a new estate built behind so all the gardens back on to ours. Before the estate was built, all our gardens just had sort of chicken wire fences which had been there since our houses went up 30+ years ago. When the new houses went up, the developers left a foot or so of land in between the new gardens and the existing gardens and put new fences up at the new houses otherwise we would be staring straight into each other’s gardens if you see what I mean (happy to add diagram if required!). The problem we have is our neighbour behind has now removed his fence so we are left looking into each others gardens! It looks as though he is about to put trellis up and grow some plants up that and the old chicken wire fence but my question is, has he land grabbed that foot of land and claimed it as his own or was it just an act of courtesy from the new build developers to put the now removed fence up as really it is our wire fence and if we have a problem with it we have to pay to change it? I’ve read that we can download neighbours deeds from a website for a small fee, would this tell us how much of the land is theirs?

I heard once that new build developers sometumes need to leave a strip of land untouched for wildlife could it be due to that....then he has langrabbed.

Is the issur that hes landgrabbed (potentially) or now that his land touches yours as surely thats just standard neighbour to neighbours garden fences?

I think you can get the relevant information from the land registry if you request it

Gov.uk Land Registry website is where you need to go. It's £3 to download a copy of each document. You'll probably need the title registers and title plans. Bear in mind it can be difficult to tell exactly where on the ground the boundary is. It's easier if there are features like roads, alleyways and buildings thing line up with.

Also check the planning permission documents for the development on the council website. Check the site plans and the decision document and any planning conditions.

And show us what you find. Only joking, it could be outing.

How old is the new build? Our council keeps files public on the planning portal so we can see which plots have which land - check there as it may be freely available information, or there may be the letters confirming the land has been left to protect badgers or suchlike (our new build estate has a badger protection plan on it!)