David Pedley is a retired conveyancing solicitor and guest author at Today’s Conveyancer.
The Home Information Pack was tried in England and abandoned in 2010, apart from requirement of an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC). A survey has been a requirement in Scotland since 2008, including an EPC, and
It seems that up to the 20th century, no formal searches were made as to public access to a property. Local solicitors knew which were public highways. Until the 1970s, conveyancers rarely bothered much about