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09-20-2008, 02:52 PM
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Finding who owns the land/house
Hi, I am 23 and will be at a stage in a couple of years to buy my own place. I really want to build a new house, this will mean I get a house closer to what I want plus I am hoping to do some of the work myself thus saving some money plus a lot of my friends are tradesmen.
I have seen an area that I would like to build, it very rural plus has a number of derrelict houses. I have a couple of houses in mind but I can not find out who owns the houses or who owns the land. I have searched the land registry without any luck, the houses are in middle of fields which don't have roads going to them. I don't think it has changed hands recently. Do you guys have any idea how I could find out who owns the land? I don't want to go asking a lot of local farmers because once they hear someone is interested, god knows how much they would want for it. I can provide the location through google map if that is any help in giving me some advice. Thanks a lot for your time. 
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09-20-2008, 09:14 PM
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If they're in the field, with no access road, then it's a 99 per cent certainty that the farmer owns them, wouldn't you say?
Consider planning permission first of all. The area may have a local plan that prohibits residential development in rural areas unless such development can be justified as required for the working of the farmland thereabouts. If there's a prohibition such as this, you're wasting your time with land registry etc. since you won't be able to get permission to redevelop the derelicts unless you prove that more farmhands will be living there, and they're required for working the farm. Consult your local council's planning dept, or look on their website. Look for similar applications and see any decision notices for same. Even if you do get permission, if there's no access road, there's not likely to be any right of access over the farmer's land. So you'll need to buy a strip of land off the farmer to form an access road. Utilities - getting gas, electricity, water, drainage, phone lines to the property - considered all these?
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11-27-2008, 08:05 PM
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not always
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