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  • Anyone speak legalese? I downloaded her title deed and there's a clause in there that sounds relevant. Wouldn't appreciate if someone could decode it for me.

    Post it up, I'm happy to have a read. It's the definition of specific words that tends to really trip one up, rather than the grammar etc.

  • (31.01.1996) The land is subject to the following rights reserved by a Conveyance of the land in this title dated 14 May 1958 made between (1) The Board of Governors and The United Cardiff Hospitals (Board) and (2) L***********g (Purchaser):-

    "EXCEPT AND RESERVING in favour of the Board and their successors in title full right and
    liberty from time to time with or without workmen or others and all necessary appliances and materials to enter into and upon the property hereby conveyed for the purpose of repairing cleansing maintaining or rebuilding adjoining properties for the time being owned by the Board."

    The purchaser mentioned is not my neighbour, presumably a previous owner. I think the houses round here used to be owned by the local hospital, hence that mention.

  • (31.01.1996) The land is subject to the following rights reserved by a Conveyance of the land in this title dated 14 May 1958 made between (1) The Board of Governors and The United Cardiff Hospitals (Board) and (2) L***********g (Purchaser):-

    "EXCEPT AND RESERVING in favour of the Board and their successors in title full right and
    liberty from time to time with or without workmen or others and all necessary appliances and materials to enter into and upon the property hereby conveyed for the purpose of repairing cleansing maintaining or rebuilding adjoining properties for the time being owned by the Board."

    Not a property lawyer or anything, but my reading is;

    Party 1 has a right to enter the property of Party 2 for the purposes of;

    • repair / maintenance
    • cleaning, or
    • rebuilding

    to/of Party 1's property, where said property is next to Party 2's property (i.e. P1 can't go via P2's property to repair things bordering Mrs Miggins opposite).

    I would assume the covenant / obligations continue to apply to whoever Party 1 or 2 is any particular point in time - i.e. you and Mrs Twitchy.

    tl;dr she probably has to give you access for the re-render whether she likes it or not, and if you need/want to be a dick, via her house too.

    Having a simple agreement re damages might be a good idea from an optics POV, but I'd also want to check with a friendly land law/property person that doing so doesn't potentially adversely effect what looks like a covenant very much in your (or future owner's) favour.

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