The Battle for Broxhead Common
The Case for Hampshire County Council – PART 51
- 28th February 2014. A year on and I had become unhappy with the way my questions to the Land Registry had been dealt with. It seemed impossible to get a clear picture of the process that had allowed Broxhead Common to be registered as ‘owned’ by Mr Whitfield. The list of documents they had sent to me did not, in my humble opinion, contain any that would support their finding,. So, I made a complaint to the Independent Complaints Reviewer.
1962 OS Map of Broxhead Common09092021 - A Senior Investigating Officer was appointed to look at my case, but their office re-location prevented me from hearing anything further until:
- 3rd June 2014, when I received a summary of my complaint. Apparently the first application for voluntary first registration of the Headley Wood Estate was not made until 15th August 2000 by AJG solicitors. They said the matter was complicated and, in order to assist had enclosed a print of the Ordnance Survey Map showing the estate’s boundaries marked in blue. The application was made by Anthony Gary Peter Whitfield.
- Also included in the file are 12 handwritten pages from a Land Registry lawyer who is referred to as ALR1.
- 6th December 2000, ALR1 wrote to the solicitors. His letter said:
- He identified certain parts of the land for which they had applied and said that they would be excluded from the registration as no title had been shown;
- Where land had been conveyed “for the seller’s estate, right and interest only, The Registry does not accept that a conveyance so worded is effective to pass the legal estate unless there is evidence that the seller really did have a legal estate in the land” but
- “where the applicant owns land on both sides of the rivers and roads, the whole width of the river bed and soil of the road will be included in the registration, but as regards road, a verbal entry along the following lines will be made.”
Next time: A shocking revelation. Unbelievable.