Joe Timothy's letter regarding the Land Registry's practice of only issuing title plans on first registrations or an application affecting the extent of the land in the title (see [2004] Gazette, 4 June, 14) made interesting reading.


I considered it further once I had received title entries on completion of a recent application. I had made the application to register clients' title to a forecourt fronting two shops in Chislehurst by way of adverse possession.


The Land Registry had proposed to add the land in question to my clients' existing title to the shops if I could show that the land did not form part of the pavement belonging to the local authority.


When I received my completed application, it was without a title plan, leaving me uncertain as to whether all of the land had been added to the original title, and so whether my application had been successful. I will now have to spend more time (and my client's money) obtaining a plan to check.


Despite what Mr Timothy says, surely it would be much simpler to issue a plan in every case, if only to prevent us practitioners having to ask the registry to send us one.



Daniel Bridgland, TG Baynes, Bexleyheath, Kent