Road ownership

[Sugarandtime]

How would you go about finding out who owns Piece of road?

A house I’ve looked at online for sale in a cul de sac but doesn’t have a traditional turning circle at the end. The road is all made up as normal ,tarmac, pavement etc except the last bit ( a few doors away)
That bit is unmade with no pavement.

I want to find out if the end part is privately owned by the houses the front it as there is a lack of parking In the area.
I’ve looked those houses up on land register and it just shows their boundaries in red which doesn’t include the bit of garden which would have been a pavement if it was made up.
The £3 deeds make no mention of ownership or maintenance etc of that but of road.

Can it be that you can have an un made up road that is also council owned?

Yes. We live on a row of 4 houses, the road is marked Private Road. None of us own it, but we all have maintenance of it written into our deeds. Oddly though there is a street light and the council occasionally bring the weed sprayers round. It seems to be a bit of a no mans land really. I assume the council own it but don’t know how to find out for sure as there’s no title for it.

Thanks @AGreatUsername
The road isn’t marked as private but I wonder if the houses fronting it assume they own it despite there being nothing on the deeds that I downloaded to say they do.

Is the maintenance part written into the deeds that you can downloaded for £3 or is it something you would only see in the conveyance documents when you purchased your house?

I’m 99% sure it was on the LR doc you can get for £3.

Check with the local authority to see if it’s adopted - this is what is revealed by your local search.

@Sugarandtime

Thanks *@AGreatUsername* The road isn’t marked as private but I wonder if the houses fronting it assume they own it despite there being nothing on the deeds that I downloaded to say they do.

Is the maintenance part written into the deeds that you can downloaded for £3 or is it something you would only see in the conveyance documents when you purchased your house?

It will be in there if it’s on the home owners. Ask the agent, the current owner will know the arrangements.

We live in a cul de sac of 4 houses. The road is private but owned by me rather than shared. It's shown on the land registry documents as within my property boundary. Whether it would be shown on other documents I don't know. There's a covenant on the other three houses that they must pay an equal share of the road maintenance costs as they use it to access their properties.

I live in a little huddle of seven houses of the end if a cul-de-sac. We have no pavements or street lighting, the developer did put up private drive but the got knocked down

We all own about two foot out into the toad from our properties and the rest jointly. As in across the road and myself jointly own the road between us, and I assume is the same for the rest of the road

There is very little in the deeds and the newcomers know little about the road ownership and that eventually we will be responsible for the upkeep