Bibendum wrote:

Nope, I suspect that we would lose the �330m profit that the Crown Estate currently pays to the treasury......

The crown estate is now just a govt dept, nothing to do with the royal family anymore.

my neighbour was buying some land from the crown estates, the sale nearly fell through as nobody could prove the crown actually owned the land in the first place, probably confiscated from some disobedient lord in the 14century or so, and the lord didnt give a receipt what with having his head chopped off or similar. At work
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I nearly got involved in a land dispute and found that there is a 12 year rule whereby if you occupy a piece of land unchallenged for 12 years then you effectively own it by "adverse possession" apparently the idea is that when you buy land from someone how do you prove that the person he bought it from originally owned it? and how do you prove that he in turn bought it from a rightful owner etc and so on back to the Doomsday Book. Hence the 12 year rule, but with Crown Estate land I guess it gets even more complicated. 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
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He had been paying rent, so that counts as the challenge.

There is a similar rule with footpaths, apparently if a path is travelled unhindered for years it can become a public footpath,the parish council tried that on my riverbank, but at the time it was crown estate land and was protected from such 'land grabs'.

People still walk the path unhindered so why try and claim it as a path? At work
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Bit of a JLR day, couple of historic Rolls, a special order VW ( badged Bentley) , a few Merc vans with windows for the lower order guests, and a four horse power carriage, the rest were FFRR's, a few new Disco's, higher profile guests in Jags, even the B & G departing from the reception car was a Jag.
That Jag would make a fortune in alloy and carbon fibre should the decide to make a modern version my PC is slightly to the right of Genghis
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I read somewhere that it was an electric jag too. Always wondered what the e in "e type" meant. 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
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chicken george wrote:

was crown estate land and was protected from such 'land grabs'.

Thats how they got it in the first place.  FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
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Grab it keep it. Then 2 years ago tell tenant be has to buy or move on. My new 'landlord' is HSBC and if I default they will do more than chop my head off. At work
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