IMPORTANCE OF A SURVEY PLAN

IMPORTANCE OF A SURVEY PLAN

Regarding the importance of a survey plan, I do not claim to be a survey professional or a registered surveyor. However, from my practical experience of property transactions, as well as the requirement of the law for a survey plan in transactions, its emphasis is that it helps you to demarcate the boundaries of your property. What that means is that, if you are buying land, it is with the survey plan that you can properly identify the exact dimensions of your land, in terms of size, in terms of boundaries, and in terms of the name of the surveyor who prepared the plan, as well as the date and a plan number.

All of this information, when registered or when launched at the office of the Surveyor General, at whatever state you are in, then makes a record of your plan available to the government.
Going further, if you then intend to register your title about that particular property, that survey plan then becomes an integral part of the documentation that should accompany your application to register your title. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5N5lBKtbYE/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Talking about more practical terms now, a survey plan also helps you to ensure that in the unlikely event of a dispute, you are able to properly identify your land. Now, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a family-owned land or whether it’s an unregistered land.

With a survey plan, it makes it easier to say this is where I bought and this is the land. Let me give an instance, there was a case where two different persons bought land from a real estate company, and that real estate company allocated the same block and plot number.
Interestingly, these two parties also went further to register their title over their separate land, as bought from this real estate company. When the matter got to court, I came to the realization that it is not possible, for both parties to register title over the same piece of land, which made me understand that there has to be disparity somewhere. With further investigation, we discovered that there was a mistake in the layout that was prepared by the real estate company. When you look at the plot and block number as allocated to the two buyers, they are the same. But with the physical land in itself, the coordinates are different, and that was the basis of which the case is now being handled in a court of law.
Furthermore, with a survey plan, in the case of a court litigation, apply for an injunction. The reason for this is that if you are to come to court to claim that a piece of the land belongs to you, you need to be able to show that this is what I am referring to with specific details. If you are not able to, then you need to look at other ways of proving that you own the land or to identify the land rather, such as I own the land that is adjacent to this land, or This land belongs to my family under native law and custom. So it makes it a lot easier when it is a plan that situates your exact land.

 
 
 
 

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