Here are links to some other sites that you may find useful.
If you can't yet find what you want on the Internet, you may be able to find it in BT's Phone Book, or in Yellow Pages, or in other hardcopy directories.

Other sites dealing with BOUNDARY and NEIGHBOUR problems
Gary Webber, barrister www.garywebber.co.uk On-Line advice in his Internet "book" - Boundary Disputes: a Practical Approach


Bearders Solicitors
www.gardenlaw.co.uk
West Yorkshire solicitors running the Garden Law advice site concerning the law relating to gardens, including boundaries, walls, trees and roots, garden burial, smoke

A. W. & C. Barsby
www.barsby.com

A legal research and publishing company. Two of its books deal with neighbour problems. Their site contains additions and amendments which provide updates to the published edition that you have bought.

www.lawontheweb.co.uk

The UK public's favourite legal information site and gateway to other legal sites, providing their own information online and answering readers' questions. With links to all the major legal service sites in the UK.

Land Registry Searches - www.landsearch.net

LandSearch is the leading internet supplier of Land Registry Title Deeds and Land Registry documents in the British Isles. Land Registry documents disclose owners, boundary details, plans, covenants, charges, property prices and bankruptcies.

www.nfh.org.uk/

Neighbours From Hell in Britain: An Online Internet community helping people to deal with, manage and resolve neighbour problems in the U.K. The site aims to help you if you are or have experienced anti-social or noisy neighbours, or if you have suffered or are suffering from a nuisance neighbour in any form. Help, advice and forums are freely available for you to use on this site.

Neighhbours with Issues

http://neighbourswithissues.banterboard.com/

A friendly site whose members offer help, support and advice, to people suffering all issues of neighbour problems. We offer helpful links to organisations, a discussion forum and chat, and above all a friendly atmosphere.

If you suffer problems such as noisy neighbours, harassment, vandalism or any other form of intimidation please visit us.

http://www.lawreports.co.uk/indexdln.htm

The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales (ICLR) is the publisher of the most authoritative law reports in the UK. The Council publishes The Weekly Law Reports, The Law Reports, which appear monthly with the addition of the argument of counsel, The Industrial Cases Reports, The Statutes & Public General Acts and The Consolidated Index. In addition ICLR provides The Daily Law Notes and The Industrial Cases Reports Express free of charge via the council’s website (www.lawreports.co.uk). Here you can also find an online version of our free, thrice annual, student newsletter.
Government sites relevant to BOUNDARY problems
HM Land Registry www.landreg.gov.uk/regional Find which is your District Land Registry, and how to contact it
Lord Chancellor's Department
www.open.gov.uk/lcd
The text of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998
Ordnance Survey
www.ordnancesurvey.gov.uk

www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk

Comprehensive site where you can learn about the products, how to use the products, read press releases, etc.
To assess the accuracy of the OS map that underpins the HMLR filed plan for your property, go to
www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/landline/tileselector.html , then use the tools provided (placenames seem to work faster than map sheet numbers, grid references or postcodes) to bring up a page that includes a thumbnail of the map and its accuracy specification.
Next go to
http://www.boundary-problems.co.uk/mapaccuracy.htm to find out the relative accuracy that applies to the accuracy specification for your map.
Professional bodies who may be able to offer assistance

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
www.rics.org.uk/dir
Information site of the governing body of Chartered Surveyors, with topical items
on surveying and on public policy issues.
Law Society
www.lawsoc.org.uk
The Law Society's directory of members (solicitors)
Academy of Experts
www.academy-experts.org
An on-line directory of experts and mediators
CEDR, the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution
www.cedr.co.uk
CEDR's mission is to encourage and develop mediation and other cost-effective dispute resolution and prevention techniques in commercial and public-sector disputes. It is an independent non-profit organisation supported by multinational business and leading professional bodies.
Directories

www.expertsearch.co.uk
Directory of experts of many kinds, classified under Medical and Non-medical

www.geomatics.uk.net
Directory of land surveyors, classified by specialism. Look under 'BOUNDARY DEMARCATION' for your nearest boundaries expert

RICS Directory
www.ricsfirms.com
On-Line Directory of chartered surveyors: search it for experts in
Boundary Demarcation and Disputes


YELL.COM
www.yell.co.uk
The on-line version of Yellow Pages. Look under "Surveyors - Land & Hydrographic" to find boundary surveyors.
InfoSpace
THOMWEB.CO.UK
www.thomweb.co.uk
The on-line version of Thomson Local. Search under "Surveyors - Land" or "Surveyors - Party Walls and Boundary" to find a boundary surveyor.
www.thelocalweb.net
www.thelocalweb.net
A new kind of on-line directory. Every business listed has its own web site, so you search using the same keywords you might put into a search engine rather than having to guess at the directory's classification system. In their Keyword Search Panel enter the fields "boundary surveyor" and your own postcode. Thelocalweb will return entries within a ten mile radius. If it returns no entries, or if it doesn't find someone suitable, it offers you the chance to extend your search over a wider radius.
Sites operated by MEDIATORS, ARBITRATORS, (Alternative Disputes Resolution)
www.mediate.co.uk
www.mediate.co.uk
Leading firm of mediators, whose web site contains a very useful description of the mediation process

www.consensus.uk.com
Offering a cost-effective solution to your dispute through mediation and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) using a nationwide panel of accredited mediators.

www.hardwicke.co.uk
"The main focus of our dispute resolution service is the provision of Queen's Counsel to act as arbitrators, mediators, adjudicators and facilitators for dispute resolution. Our service is available to lawyers and business executives alike."

www.fhanna.co.uk
Francis Hanna and Company are a Belfast based law firm offering Alternative Disputes Resolution serives.

www.northernmediators.co.uk
The Association of Northern Mediators, Leeds

Graeme Mew
Graeme Mew is a lawyer and a dispute resolution professional offering advocacy, mediation, arbitration and third party neutral services to parties involved in or seeking to avoid civil disputes. Graeme Mew is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an accredited mediator by the Centre for Dispute Resolution (CEDR) with 18 years experience as a litigation lawyer practising in England and Ontario (Canada).

www.glovers.co.uk
Glovers was one of the four founding firms of CEDR, the pre-eminent Alternative Dispute Resolution organisation in the UK.
MADRA
www.commoditiesconsult.com/madra.htm
MEDIATION AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION by ARBITRATION Ltd. Arbitration and Mediation in Agriculture Commerce & Property

Sources of Aerial Photography

www.skyscan.co.uk
Skyscan offer a service to search for old aerial photographs for use as evidence in boundary disputes and site investigations.

www.skyviewsarchives.com

We specialise in unique historical aerial photography of the British Isles. Our extensive collection includes 10 million stunning aerial images, stretching from Lands End to John O' Groats and spanning an amazing 4 decades of British social history.

 

www.aerialphotography.com

We provide date authenticated aerial photographs to clients involved in land disputes. Either Oblique or True Vertical photography can be provided - all we require is a post code or grid reference for the house, land, farm, town or factory in question, along with your preferred date of coverage. We will then search our archives and can e-mail a low resolution copy of the image for approval. If the image is suitable, we will then produce a high quality authenticated enlargement.

Other sites of interest
The Property Forum
www.thepropertyforum.net/
Site that seeks to influence the future of the home-buying and selling process, with property news and a think tank of eminent property professionals.

BLS Professional Development
www.blsnet.co.uk

CPD (continuing professional development) training providers to the legal profession

www.geomatics.org.uk

Boundary surveying is a specialism of land surveying, which is itself a branch of geomatics. Find out more about this fascinating topic and the career opportunities it offers.

www.landlordZONE.co.uk

LandlordZONE.co.uk aims to be a leading on-line resource for UK Private Landlords, Tenants and Letting Agents. Whilst it says very little about boundaries or easements, it has a wide ranging and very useful links list.
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