4.   The Keeper has no authority to be prescriptive on the scale of plan employed for conveyancing purposes. However, as a matter of practice he will make up a title plan for each registered interest in the Land Register using the largest scale of ordnance map available. Accordingly, any deed plan produced  from  a  similar  source  is  unlikely  to  cause  concern.  The  applicant  may  present  a  plan larger than the three ordnance map scales used by the Keeper (1:500 is not an uncommon scale for deed plans) in order to show detail which would not be clear on a smaller scale. The Keeper, depending on what he sees as the title requirements for the title sheet and land certificate, may incorporate a copy of this plan in the title sheet as supplementary to the title plan. Alternatively, the Keeper may prepare an enlarged plan or an insert to show a particular feature. Both these procedures can often help to overcome the lack of sufficient detail on the ordnance map. If the Keeper considers that the detail on the applicant’s 1:500 (or such larger scale) plan is unnecessary for the purpose of registration, he will prepare the relevant title and certificate plans at the normal appropriate scale. Any larger scale plan will be subject to the indemnity limitations imposed by section 12(3)(d). 5.   Where a plan has to be prepared to enable the Keeper to identify the subjects, it should not be on a smaller scale than 1:1250, 1:2500 or 1:10,000 if the subjects are urban, rural or moorland type properties respectively. In such cases the plan should preferably be based on the ordnance map. It should be remembered that, even with continuous revision by the Ordnance Survey, the latest map information available may not necessarily reflect the situation on the ground. 6.  The requirements to identify subjects sufficiently relate not merely to land but also to such other interests in land as salmon fishings or minerals. In the case of minerals which are severed from the lands, sufficient identification may have to include the lands under which the minerals are to be found  and,  in  certain  cases,  a  strata  plan.  Where  minerals  are  being  conveyed  as  a  separate tenement, the registration requirements should be discussed in detail with the Keeper. 7.   If  any  parts  of  the  subjects  are  affected  by  particular  rights  or  burdens,  sufficient  supporting information must be given to allow the Keeper to delineate specific areas on the certificate plan. 8.  Where  no  physical  features  (fences,  walls,  hedges,  ditches  or  the  like)  exist  on  the  ground,  the Keeper must be informed, on application for registration, about the dimensions of the land. The boundaries must be related to existing physical detail on the ordnance map so that the property can be clearly and accurately defined. This problem will arise most frequently in the case of new properties on a developing housing estate. The procedures which are available for having a plan of such an estate approved by the Keeper before applications are made to register the house plots are discussed at paragraph 4.37 et seq. Form 1 - (Part B - questions 1-3) 4.15 The Form 1 was revised in 1995 in an effort to speed up the registration process by ensuring that any  problems  are  highlighted  and  resolved  prior  to  the  application  being  made.  In  particular, Questions 1-3 of Part B of the Form 1 place greater emphasis on the need to identify the legal extent of a property and compare it with the occupied extent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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