Unlclaimed access to property - searches by land registry

[TheHazelPombear]

Hi

We are in the process of buying a house and there's a piece of land that has been flagged by the searches which is a gap between the property boundary and public highway (pavement). There is currently a legal statement coming from the vendors via the solicitor confirming they have been using it for the last number of years. See attached (green).

See the official solicitor wording:

As you will see from these plans there is a gap between the road and the property and where these situations arise, you will need legal rights of way in place to use the unadopted “gap” however, there are no such rights noted on the title in this respect. The Sellers will be providing a Statement of Truth which is a legal document confirming their use of this “gap” during their ownership of the property and this will be submitted to the Land Registry following completion, to see if the Land Registry will note the claimed right on the title.

Any suggestions here?

Thanks

If they don’t know who it belongs to how can they attempt to deduce title -unregistered land the owner holds the deeds…

its also the owner who needs to submit the application for first registration.

They also said if the benefit or myself speak to the council (as they think they could have drawn the plans wrongly) then this will obviously take time but also invalidate the indemnity

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