I note that the current practice at the Land Registry on the completion of a registration is not to issue a land or charge certificate.

Instead, an official copy of the registers is issued, but no official copy of the plan is sent therewith.

Given that the official copy of the entries is the only evidence of ownership of properties having a value in many cases of hundreds of thousands of pounds, it should surely be incumbent on the registry when completing a registration to issue a copy of the entries and also a copy of the plan to which those entries refer.

It is arguable that without the plan the entries cannot be fully interpreted and it seems unfair to the party paying for the service, namely the owner, that a fee should be sought to produce a plan of the property.

With the advent of many more rules affecting land registration, practitioners are liable to have their applications returned marked 'defective'.

Surely on completion of a registration the owner is entitled to a full set of particulars including a plan, without payment of an additional fee?

VT Jordan, Carver Jones, Hereford