Further Guidance

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Table of Contents

CMS Quick Reference

Complex Dealings

Entry in Schedule of Monuments - Example Deeds (Complex DWs)

FR Sift Instructions

Intake and Application Forms

The Land Register Archive

Plans

Certified Plan Procedure
Classification of References in Plan Creator
Completing the LRS Title Notes
- LRS Title Notes - Templates
- LRS Title Notes - Free Text
Completing the Plans Casenotes
Description of Property Must Be Acceptable
- Acceptable Descriptions of Excepted Areas in a DIR
- Bounding Description of Property Must Be Acceptable
- Deed Plan Must Be Acceptable
- Description of Flatted Property Must Be Acceptable
- Description of Seabed Plot Must Be Acceptable
- Draft Plans
- Location Plans
- Partial Reference Shown on Deed Plan
- Monochrome Deed Plans
Digital Map Data & Digital Deed Plans
Draft Cadastral Units (DCUs) and Capture Once Files (COFs)
Duplicating Titles in the Plan Creator
Enlargements or Enlarged Plans in Previously Mapped Titles
Groupings in the Plan Creator
- Groupings - Frequently Asked Questions
Half Roadway
House and Street Names on the Cadastral Map
Index Entry Types on the Index Layer
- Back-Up Files
- Research Areas for Plans Officers
- Tree Preservation Orders (TPOs) for Plans Officers
Labelling in Plan Creator
Mapping Air Space and Strata
Mapping Common Areas and Shared Plots
- FR - When to Create or Add to a Shared Plot Title Sheet
- FR - When to Map Common Areas Under the Transitional Provisions
- TP - When to Create or Add to a Shared Plot Title Sheet
- TP - When to Map Common Areas Under the Transitional Arrangements
- How to Map Titles with Multiple Common Areas
- How to Map Common Areas with Verbal Descriptions
- Ownership of Common Areas - When to Include, Omit or Reject
- Identification of Quantum Share & Common Area - Shared/Sharing Plots
- How to Register a Conveyance of Only a Share in a Common Area
- Converting a Shared Plot Title Sheet to an Ordinary Plot Title Sheet
- Shared Plots and References from Deeds of Conditions
- Shares in Common Area Exceed 100%
Mapping & Updating Deeds of Conditions
Mapping Leases
- Automatic Plot Registration (APR) - Plans Guidance
- How to Map a Lease of Whole
- How to Map a Lease of Part
- How to Map a Lease of Part in a Tenement
- How to Map a Sub-Lease
- How to Map a Lease or Sub-lease Affecting More Than One Landlord's Title
- How to Map a Renunciation or Partial Renunciation of a Lease
- How to Map a Partial Assignation of a Registered Lease
- How to Map an Extension (Extent) of a Registered Lease
- How to Map a Sporting or Shooting Lease
- How to Reference an Existing Lease on a new Ownership Title
Mapping Minerals Titles
Mapping Natural Water Boundaries
- How to Map Natural Water Boundaries
- Udal Law and the Foreshore in Orkney & Shetland
- How to Identify Natural Water Boundaries
Mapping Pends
Mapping Roof Space
Mapping Salmon Fishings
Mapping Seabed
Mapping Styles and Plans References on the Cadastral Map
Mapping Techniques
- Hints & Tips - Common Practice Issues in the Plan Creator
- Measurement of Area (Hectarage)
- Measuring from a PDF
- Plotting and Scaling
- Seed Points
- Vector Perfect Mapping
- Viewing Deed Plans and Digital Data at an Appropriate Scale
Mapping Tenement Properties
- Identifying the Tenement Steading Extent
- FR - Creating a New Tenement Steading Cadastral Unit
- TP - Creating a New Tenement Steading Cadastral Unit
- FR - Using an Existing Tenement Steading Cadastral Unit
- TP - Using an Existing Tenement Steading Cadastral Unit
- Using Supplementary Data to the Title Sheet with Tenements and Sub-divided Buildings
- When to Map Areas of Exclusive and Common Ownership, and Other Pertinents
- When to Accept Verbal Descriptions for Areas of Exclusive and Common Ownership, and Other Pertinents
- Checking for Competing Titles Within a Tenement Steading
- 25 Metre Rule in Tenements
- Tenements Under Exception
- Mapping a Demolished Tenement
- Mapping a Flat With Parking in Another Block
- Settling a Run of TPs For All Flats in a Block
- Tenement Scenarios
Mapping Transfers of Part
- Development Plan Approval
- Removing a Tenement Block from an LSVT or Other Mixed Fee Parent Title
- Removal Styles on Parent Titles
Multi-part Plans in the Plan Creator
Plans References for Servitudes, Burdens and Non-ownership Rights
- Angus Local Authority Properties - Rights to Park in Estate
- Clothes Poles
- Garage Forecourts
- Mapping Public Rights of Way and Core Paths
- Septic Tanks
Plans Reports
Property Section Styles in the Title Sheet
- Sample Property Section Styles - Non Tenement Property
- Sample Property Section Styles - Tenement Properties
- Sample Property Section Styles - Shared Plots
- Sample Property Section Styles - Leases and sub-leases
- Sample Property Section Styles - Salmon Fishings
- Sample Property Section Styles - Minerals
- Sample Property Section Styles - Seabed
Railway Boundaries
Render Order Rules in Plan Creator
Road Centre Lines
Supplementary Data, SPLs and Supplementary Plans
- Scanned Plans and the Plan Creator - Known Issues
- SPLs and the Plan Creator - Known Issues

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