site map

1.   historical timetable
2.   feudal system
3.   history of sasines
4.   the land register
5.   glossary of terms used in the agency

6.   latin and scottish phrases
6.1 latin phrases
6.2 scottish phrases

8. first registrations
8.1 ident

8.1.1 introduction
8.1.2 section 19
8.1.3 confirmation cases
8.1.4 settle procedure
8.1.5 cdi
8.1.6 pending ra
8.1.7 applications bordering non-operational areas
8.1.8 applications in multiple operational areas
8.1.9 barony titles
8.1.10 care of documents
8.1.11 expedite cases

8.2 preparation of title plan
8.2.1 introduction
8.2.2 acuuracy and quality
8.2.3 use of os map
8.2.4 mapping the title plan
8.2.5 additional copies of title plan
8.2.6 determination of extent
8.2.6.1 monochrome plans
8.2.7 land adjoining access ways
8.2.8 dedication of land for public highway
8.2.9 half roadway
8.2.10 railway boundaries
8.2.11 undefined extent
8.2.12 dimensions
8.2.13 referencing
8.2.13.1 precise extent
8.2.13.2 island site
8.2.13.3 tinting method
8.2.13.4 site plan
8.2.13.5 additional refs
8.2.14 plans refs
8.2.14.1 uncoloured parts
8.2.14.2 double refs
8.2.15 multiple part title plan
8.2.16 boundary refs
8.2.16.1 mapping boundary refs
8.2.16.2 black arrow method
8.2.16.3 Using Blue Arrow And Letter Referencing Method
8.2.16.4 Juts
8.2.16.5 Table or Legend on Deed Plan
8.2.17 external boundary juts
8.2.18 internal boundary juts
8.2.19 section numbers not in use
8.2.20 cumbernauld dc
8.2.21 ssha
8.2.22 enlargements etc
8.2.23 supp plans
8.2.24 confirmation of boundaries
8.2.25 legal referral
8.2.26 cx case
8.2.27 defacement of cert plan
8.2.28 defacement of record map
8.2.29 natural water boundaries (riparian interest)
8.2.29.1 practical difficulties
8.2.29.2 registration problems
8.2.29.3 mapping options
8.2.29.4 guidelines
8.2.29.5 alluvio
8.2.30 registrations affected by prior feus or leases
8.2.31 salmon fishings
8.2.32 wind farms
8.2.33 copy in certificate

8.3 tenements
8.3.1 general
8.3.2 site plan/verbal refs
8.3.3 site plan/plans refs
8.3.4 site plan/supp plan
8.3.5 solum only
8.3.6 modern block
8.3.7 property desription
8.3.8 flats merged on renovation
8.3.9 boundary refs
8.3.10 refurbishment
8.3.11 demolished and redeveloped
8.3.12 multiple flats
8.3.12.1 schedule
8.3.13 roof space
8.3.14. glasgow dc, deed of conditions
8.3.15. identifying exclusive areas with the Tenement Steading

8.4 parts of buildings and strata levels
8.4.1 introduction
8.4.2 simple floor level
8.4.3 complex floor level
8.4.4 tinting method
8.4.5 tinting method with schedule
8.4.6 supp plan method
8.4.7 restrictive note
8.4.8 split villas
8.4.8.1 site plan
8.4.8.2 precise extent
8.4.8.3 whole under exception
8.4.9 four in a block
8.4.10 subsoil and airspace
8.4.11 mines and minerals
8.4.12 use of newlyn datum
8.4.13 underground railways or waterways
8.4.14 "exclusive" use of premises

8.5 leases
8.5.1 definition
8.5.2 criteria for registration
8.5.3 types of tenure
8.5.3.1 residential or domestic leases
8.5.3.2 leases of use of land
8.5.3.3 kindly tenancy
8.5.3.4 tenancy at will
8.5.4 assignations and sub-leases
8.5.5 plans action
8.5.6 clculation of value
8.5.7 copy in certificate

8.6 barony titles
8.6.1 general
8.6.2 plans action
8.6.3 a property section
8.6.3.1 interest
8.6.3.2 hectarage code
8.6.3.3 os reference
8.6.3.4 property description

8.7 pro indiviso/ric
8.7.1 introduction
8.7.2 mapping procedures
8.7.2.1 precise extent
8.7.2.2 steading extent
8.7.2.3 complex extents
8.7.2.4 pleasure ground
8.7.2.5 problems
8.7.3 fr of pro-indiviso interest
8.7.3.1 general
8.7.3.2 plans procedure
8.7.1 introduction

8.8 prov ident
8.8.1 introduction
8.8.2 overlapping title
8.8.3 indexing

8.9 servitudes
8.9.1 public right of way
8.9.2 acquisition
8.9.3 entry on title sheet
8.9.4 rights of a trivial or obvious nature
8.9.5 problems
8.9.6 referencing sewers &c
8.9.6.1 line of drain as a right
8.9.6.2 as a burden
8.9.6.3 supp plans (original)
8.9.6.4 supp plans (copy)
8.9.7 public rights of way

8.10 notes to legal and a property section
8.10.1 responsibilities of plans
8.10.2 completing notes
8.10.3 completing a section
8.10.4 hectare code
8.10.5 a property section
8.10.6 tinting method
8.10.7 modern flats
8.10.7.1 general
8.10.7.2 precise extent
8.10.7.3 site plan
8.10.7.4 site plan with supp plan
8.10.8 tenement property
8.10.8.1 general
8.10.3 completing a section
8.10.8.2 flats
8.10.8.3 shops
8.10.8.4 references
8.10.9 split villa
8.10.10 property description - legal staff
8.10.11 property description - multiple breakaways

8.11 checking and settling
8.11.1 responsibilities of plans settlers
8.11.2 notes to legal
8.11.2.1 abstracting
8.11.2.2 building lines
8.11.2.3 additional references
8.11.3 prescription
8.11.4 research areas
8.11.5 servitudes
8.11.6 missing title
8.11.7 deeds not lodged
8.11.7.1 copy deeds from SRO
8.11.8 enquiries
8.11.9 court evidence

8.12 referrals and consider
8.12.1 casework and consideration
8.12.2 referall
8.12.3 amalgamation
8.12.4 restoration of title
8.12.5 absorption, confusion, consolidation
8.12.6 survey cases
8.12.7 local authority boundaries
8.12.8 souvenir land
8.12.9 scottish homes refurbishment
8.12.10 deed plan criteria
8.12.10.1 new plans
8.12.10.2 rejection of unrecorded deeds
8.12.11 certified plans
8.12.12 sub-division
8.12.13 defining the problem
8.12.14 decisions/solutions
8.12.15 boundary decisions
8.12.16 reference to legal staff
8.12.17 redevelopment
8.12.18 demolished buildings
8.12.19 roof space
8.12.20 sub-station sites
8.12.21 street names and numbers
8.12.22 books of c and s plans
8.12.23 exclusion of indemnity
8.12.24 rectification and prescription
8.12.25 retained entries
8.12.26 recall of land cert
8.12.26.1 claims for expenses
8.12.27 a non domino title
8.12.28 scottish homes refurbishment

8.12.29 adverse possession

  8.13 developed on the ground procedure
8.13.1 introduction
8.13.2 procedure - initial identification of suitable areas
8.13.3 preparation of the overlay mask
8.13.4 examination
8.13.4.1 recording mapping instructions for future applications
8.13.5 procedures at P16 report and final registration stages
8.13.5.1 P16 reports
8.13.5.2 first registrations

8.14 amalgamations/mergers
8.14.1 general
8.14.2 types
8.14.3 legal staff considerations
8.14.4 plans considerations
8.14.5 absorption, confusion, consolidation
8.14.6 plans action

8.15 scheme titles
8.15.1 advantages
8.15.2 liason with local authority
8.15.3 mapping
8.15.4 extent
8.15.5 additional plan for legal
8.15.6 mapper checklist
8.15.7 'stopping up' orders
8.15.8 ommission from application
8.15.9 applications not affecting
8.15.10 extension
8.15.11 delay in completion
8.15.12 difficulties

8.16 Compulsory Acquisition of Land
8.16.1 Introduction
8.16.2 Completion of Title

9.  transfers of part
9.1 introduction
9.2 understanding interests
9.3 official approval of estate layout plans
9.3.1 introduction
9.3.2 fee for approval of estate plans
9.3.3 the purpose of approval
9.3.4 when approval takes place
9.3.5 the organisation of the approval procedure
9.3.6 criteria for approval
9.3.7 early warning system

9.3.8 withdrawal of approval of estate lay-out plans
9.3.9 transfers of part

9.3.10 phased development
9.4 official approval of plans and text of draft writs
9.4.1 general
9.4.2 approval of draft feu disp etc
9.4.3 draft writ for plots on developing estates
9.4.4 draft writ in respect of a particular plot
9.4.5 other draft deeds
9.5 developing titles
9.5.1 general
9.5.2 special mapping points
9.5.3 undefined plots
9.5.4 transfers of part
9.5.5 standard security
9.5.6 tranfer of part of last plot
9.5.7 lega and support stage
9.6 voluntary registration of developing estate
9.6.1 introduction
9.6.2 sasine titles
9.6.3 registration dues
9.7 form 12 and 13
9.8 tp mapper checklist
9.9 references on title plans
9.10 first removals
9.11 basic mapping points
9.11.1 dispositions and assignations
9.11.2 feus and leases
9.11.3 numbering and bracing
9.12 pro-indiviso and ric
9.12.1 disps and assignations
9.12.2 feus and leases

9.12.3 pro indiviso to remainder of estate
9.13 lease/feu of whole
9.14 tenements
9.15 last removals/tranfers
9.16 exclusive use of premises

9.17 procedures for when breakaways are a mixture of feus and dispositions for shared areas

10.  conversion tables

11.  tree preservation orders
11.1 introduction
11.1.1 what is a tpo
11.1.2 why are they made
11.1.3 who can make them
11.1.4 what legislation is involved
11.1.5 how does this affect the development
11.2 types of tpo
11.3 plans action
11.3.1 general
11.3.2 plans records and indexing
11.3.3 tpos affecting specific trees
11.3.4 tpos affecting areas of ground or groups of trees

12. boundaries and registration of title
12.1 introduction
12.1.1 accuracy
12.1.2 background knowledge
12.2 legal considerations
12.2.1 boundary law
12.2.2 land boundaries
12.2.3 legal presumptions
12.2.4 plans and verbal descriptions
12.2.5 dimensions
12.2.6 prescription
12.3 boundaries and the os map
12.3.1 the ordnance map
12.3.2 accuracy
12.3.3 os rules
12.4 boundary problems
12.4.1 introduction
12.4.2 bounding description
12.4.3 deed plan
12.4.4 double features
12.4.5 boundary description
12.5 metrication
12.5.1 introduction
12.5.2 application of directive
12.5.3 rejection of deeds

13.  digital mapping system
13.1 overview
13.2 getting started
13.3 introduction to the work area
13.4 selecting a case
13.5 title administration
13.6 the drawing tool
13.7 supp plan layers
13.8 image editor
13.9 main controls
13.10 title image viewer tool

14.  mapping on the dms

14. Mapping Procedures
14.1.1 mapping tpos

14.1.2 procedure
14.1.3 CDI on the DMS

14.1.4 cancellations
14.1.5 case notes on the DMS
14.1.6 closing a title — dms procedures
14.1.7 Tenement template
14.1.8 Explanation of Index Types
14.1.8.1 ACQ Midlothian Acquisition Title
and DSP Midlothian Disposal Site

14.1.8.2 Back Up File
14.1.8.3 Common Deeds Index
14.1.8.4 Deed of Conditions
14.1.8.5 Development On the Ground
14.1.8.6 East Ayrshire Council Survey
14.1.8.7 Estate Plan Approval
14.1.8.8 Pre-Reg Correspondence
14.1.8.9 Research Area
14.1.8.10 Supplementary Plans
14.1.8.11 Area Subject to Survey
14.1.8.12 Tree Preservation Order

14.1.8.13 IMP - Imported Extent
14.1.8.14 CIL - Register of Community Interest in Land

14.  User Tips
14.2.1 Use of Digitising the table
14.2.2 Changing a parent title number on the DMS
14.2.3 Triple Edging
14.2.4 Re-identing a Title or an Index
14.2.5 Adding Road Names to a title plan
14.2.6 Adding House Names to a title plan
14.2.7 When to add road "from and to"
14.2.7.1 Couloured Peck Lines
14.2.8 Multiple Polygons for the same area

14.2.9 Showing labels (arrows) on the Index Map
14.2.10 Deselecting Drawing Objects

14.2.11 Displaying a large area of the Mapbase

14.2.12 Working with large Polygons
14.2.13 Seed Points

14.2.14 Text, Label and Stamp Scales

14.2.15 Rotating and Sizing Text and Labels above the 82,000,000 line

15 ordnance survey
15.1 history
15.2 county series
15.3 national grid
15.4 digital maps
15.4.1 os products
15.4.2 basic principles
15.4.3 maintenance service
15.5 abbreviations on OS Maps
15.6 an introduction to OS large scale Mapping
15.6.1 What is a Map?

15.6.2 Scale of Mapping
15.6.3 Rules governing the depiction of detail
on large scale OS map products

15.6.3.1 Permanent detail
15.6.3.2 Indefinite detail
15.6.3.3 Overhead detail
15.6.3.4 Underground Detail
15.6.3.5 Names and Postal Numbers
15.6.3.6 Detail at ground surface level
15.6.3.7 Buildings
15.6.3.8 Juts and Recesses
15.6.3.9 Overhead Detail
15.6.3.10 Vegetation and Surface Features
15.6.3.11 Slopes and Cliffs
15.6.3.12 Parallel Features
15.6.3.13 Detail in Private Gardens and Detail Depiction
15.6.3.14 Fences, Hedges and Walls
15.6.3.15 Paths
15.6.3.16 Roads
15.6.3.17 Steps
15.6.3.18 Tracks
15.6.3.19 Lakes, Ponds, Reservoirs and Water
15.6.3.20 Rivers and Streams
15.6.3.21 Tide Lines
15.6.3.22 Offshore Islands and Rocks
15.6.4 Depiction of relief
15.6.5 Currency and Maintenance of Large Scale Mapping
15.6.5.1 Units of change
15.6.5.2 Maintenance of OS maps
15.6.5.3 Continuous Revision
15.6.5.4 Cyclic Revision
15.6.5.5 Quality of Land-Line data
15.6.5.6 Lineage
15.6.5.7 Content and Completeness
15.6.5.8 Currency/Revision Policy
15.6.6 Accuracy (or Geometric Accuracy)
15.6.6.1 Accuracy of Shape
15.6.6.2 Relative Accuracy
15 6.6.3 Absolute Accuracy
15.6.7 OS Data Capture Flow lines (and typical timings)

16 corres & enq.
16.1 introduction
16.1.1 speed
16.1.2 accuracy
16.1.3 replies
16.2 processing
16.2.1 general aims
16.2.2 responsibility
16.2.3 consideration of letter
16.2.4 prompt handling

16.2.5 immediate referral
16.2.6 reference to legal
16.2.7 plans referee
16.2.8 reference to another section
16.2.9 verbal referral
16.3 writing official letters
16.3.1 general

17. Common Deeds Index on the LRS
17.1 Deed searching on the CDI
17.1.2 Viewing the Burdens Text
17.1.3 Hints and Tips
17.2 Updating the CDI
17.2.1 Creating a New Common Deed
17.2.2 CDI search reveals list of deeds, none of which correspond to your deed
17.2.3 CDI search reveals list of deeds, of which one corresponds to your deed

18 MBM Procedures
18.1 Responsibility and Aims/Objectives
18.1.1 Main aims and objectives
18.2 Plans Finishing (cutting and backing)
18.3 Scanned Supplementary Plans
18.4 Form P24 Check Surveys
18.4.1 Completion of P24 survey form
18.5 Form P32 Requisitions
18.6 Time scales for obtaining new data
18.7 OS Cyclic (Rural) Revision Programme
18.8 Form P98 requisitions
18.9 Mapshift/Absolute accuracy
18.10 Address point
18.11 Maintenance Contract
18.12 Map Comparitor Tool
18.12.1 Procedures for updating Titles/Indexes affected by new data
18.12.2 Plotting from Deed Plans for New Build/Developments
18.12.3 Edge match/poor-drawing problems on the DMS
18.13 Back Conversion Error Report Forms
18.14 Land Register Extension Programme
18.15 Copyright of Ordnance Survey Maps
18.16 National Library of Scotland (Map Library)
18.16.1 Sourcing additional maps/street guides
18.17 East Ayrshire pilot
18.18 Forms
18.18.1 P103/Plans Finishing Form
18.18.2 P2/Scan Supplementary Form
18.18.3 P24/Survey Requisition Form
18.18.4 P5/Survey Notification Form
18.18.5 P32/Check availability of Survey Information
18.18.6 P98/Street name and house number enquiry

18.18.7 Back conversion error report form

19. A Guide to P16 Answers
19.1 - P16 Answers Quick Guide
19.2 - P16 Answers
19.3 Guidance notes for Answer 3 P16 Reports

20 Decision Trees
Site Plan/Tinting Method
Full Bounding Description
Abstracting Guidance for Burdens Deeds
Abstracting Guidance for Prescriptive Title Deeds (excluding DIR)
Extent of deed plan/description conflicts with OS Map
Competing titles

21 Categorisation
Introduction
FR
TP
DW

22 Introduction to Survey Practice Course Notes
Introduction
Section 1 – Ordnance Survey Background Information
Section 2 – Ordnance Survey Large Scales Map Data
Section 3 – Survey Methods and Practice
Section 4 – The Registration Process
Section 5 – Land Surveying Detail Survey
Section 6 – Potential Problems in the use of OS Mapping
Section 7 – Ordnance Survey Data Products
Section 8 – Ordnance Survey Current Issues

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