CushtyJook 1,097 Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 My cousins boyfriend was telling me today he knows a man who claimed a bit of land next to a railway line it was an old track going up to a small yard where they would be access under the railway untill the network rail filled the gap in and left the land a Romany man litterly parked up there and made it his home and has been there over twenty years now before I was born it looks really fancy now all nice with trees either side of the track with some nice iron gates yet no one has ever tried to remove him or council haven't told him he doesn't own the land but my family who own land can't do anything on it or live on it which is rediculous you have to hand it to him tho as obviously knew what he was doing anyone else found land they could claim or any sorties about people who have 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peterhunter86 8,627 Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 A traveller over here done the same made a fortune selling scrap car green diesel and dumping then sold it for something like a million Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nans pat 2,575 Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 if you mantain it 12yrs i think with nobody claiming it 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peterhunter86 8,627 Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 Just googled it crusty they got two point six million to vacate the land Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CushtyJook 1,097 Posted October 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 Just googled it crusty they got two point six million to vacate the land Bet they where laughing all the way to the bank lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
perthshire keeper 1,239 Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 is it not 7 years? i know a old bloke who cleared about a acre of old railway line of bramble and put a few hen pens on it any how last year...they wanted it back to sell to sustrans to build a cycle path thru it and they couldent..its now his ive got my eye on a little scrubby bit of crappy land that the owner died on 10 years ago Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CushtyJook 1,097 Posted October 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 is it not 7 years? i know a old bloke who cleared about a acre of old railway line of bramble and put a few hen pens on it any how last year...they wanted it back to sell to sustrans to build a cycle path thru it and they couldent..its now his ive got my eye on a little scrubby bit of crappy land that the owner died on 10 years ago I'm pretty sure it is over ten years atleast and yeah don't blame you get the Strimmer out Quote Link to post Share on other sites
air gun ant 1,666 Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 Parents new house has a (very) little patch of woodland on the other side of the road that they got told was theirs, however it isn't on the deeds as such, but the bloke they bought the house of said "I've been tending it for the last 30 yrs so it's mine! Well yours now" lol something about being unclaimed for 7 or 12 years I can't remember. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CushtyJook 1,097 Posted October 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 Parents new house has a (very) little patch of woodland on the other side of the road that they got told was theirs, however it isn't on the deeds as such, but the bloke they bought the house of said "I've been tending it for the last 30 yrs so it's mine! Well yours now" lol something about being unclaimed for 7 or 12 years I can't remember. You'll be surprised some people will know exactly what is theirs to the millimetre my grandad took down a fence that bordered a feild that had been like a wasteland for years and years he moved the fence after doing some work not even ten inches and had some farmer posting a bill for the land taken lol Also you have to think long time ago how did all these rich landowners and lords and ladies get all thier land it was once claimed somewhere down the line but sadly these days most land is taken you'll be lucky very lucky to find anything decent Quote Link to post Share on other sites
perthshire keeper 1,239 Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 Parents new house has a (very) little patch of woodland on the other side of the road that they got told was theirs, however it isn't on the deeds as such, but the bloke they bought the house of said "I've been tending it for the last 30 yrs so it's mine! Well yours now" lol something about being unclaimed for 7 or 12 years I can't remember. You'll be surprised some people will know exactly what is theirs to the millimetre my grandad took down a fence that bordered a feild that had been like a wasteland for years and years he moved the fence after doing some work not even ten inches and had some farmer posting a bill for the land taken lol Also you have to think long time ago how did all these rich landowners and lords and ladies get all thier land it was once claimed somewhere down the line but sadly these days most land is taken you'll be lucky very lucky to find anything decent thats the trick find some thing not decent....some horrid patch of bramble down some old abandoned railway line.....cut a clearing in it one year 50m square and cut it twice....if nothings said in that time put a rustic fence round it and do a bit more with it if still nothings said then its probly safe to say its all go go go 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
treecreeper 1,136 Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 My grandad had his pen at the back added to the deeds council came out and assessed it had been like that for a good while. It was his granddad before that though so you can't just fence a bit off and claim it. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The one 8,503 Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 Same here a family lived in two caravans on a council piece of ground for years they had loads of dogs horses and hens then all the land got bought up round them to build houses the council offered them room on a site they turned that down and all the house builders chipped in a undisclosed sum and they moved to a council house Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Welsh_red 4,711 Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 How would you go about proving the lenght of time you have been tending it? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hawki 1,431 Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 (edited) Take a photograph of you on the land reading the newspaper with the date visible Edited October 6, 2015 by hawki Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fly The Boy 339 Posted October 6, 2015 Report Share Posted October 6, 2015 You must be the first English man ever ask question about claiming land,,thought ye just took the land no matter what,,,,,,had to say that......... 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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