Hold persons unknown to ransom for 10 quid

[Andrew]

https://www.cliveemson.co.uk/properties/255/61/

£10. Blimey, that's cheap for anywhere, never mind London.

I wonder what you could actually do (legally) with this
ownership.

Someone has bought all the grass verges and odd little green
spaces on the estate where I live. I wonder if that will have
an impact on anyone trying to have the kerb dropped outside
their house in future ?.

Andrew

[Andy Burns]

Post by Andrew
https://www.cliveemson.co.uk/properties/255/61/
£10. Blimey, that's cheap for anywhere, never mind London.
I wonder what you could actually do (legally) with this
ownership.

Charge the lime bikes a "toll" to cross your land?
charge BT a wayleave for their manhole?

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[Graham.]

Post by Andrew
https://www.cliveemson.co.uk/properties/255/61/
£10. Blimey, that's cheap for anywhere, never mind London.
I wonder what you could actually do (legally) with this
ownership.
Someone has bought all the grass verges and odd little green
spaces on the estate where I live. I wonder if that will have
an impact on anyone trying to have the kerb dropped outside
their house in future ?.
Andrew

(I needed to open an incognito window in Chrome to view. (It wasn't my
Adbolck))

You would think the property industry would have a polite term for
"Ransom Strip". Then again, maybe you wouldn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransom_strip

[Thomas Prufer]

Post by Graham.

Post by Andrew
https://www.cliveemson.co.uk/properties/255/61/
£10. Blimey, that's cheap for anywhere, never mind London.
I wonder what you could actually do (legally) with this
ownership.
Someone has bought all the grass verges and odd little green
spaces on the estate where I live. I wonder if that will have
an impact on anyone trying to have the kerb dropped outside
their house in future ?.
Andrew

(I needed to open an incognito window in Chrome to view. (It wasn't my
Adbolck))
You would think the property industry would have a polite term for
"Ransom Strip". Then again, maybe you wouldn't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransom_strip

So I looked at this, imagining what it would be like buying lots of cheap
offcuts, in the hope they will come in handy one day, only real estate, not DIY.
Or making possibly tax-deductible trips to London to inspect my many properties,
or...

First off: "We have been advised by the Seller that some of the roads and
pathways have been adopted by the Local Authorities and/or Highways."

And while I'd still spend £10 sight unseen, the auctioneers have a minimum
charge of £750...


Thomas Prufer

[Marland]

Post by Thomas Prufer

Post by Graham.

Post by Andrew
https://www.cliveemson.co.uk/properties/255/61/
£10. Blimey, that's cheap for anywhere, never mind London.
I wonder what you could actually do (legally) with this
ownership.
Someone has bought all the grass verges and odd little green
spaces on the estate where I live. I wonder if that will have
an impact on anyone trying to have the kerb dropped outside
their house in future ?.
Andrew

(I needed to open an incognito window in Chrome to view. (It wasn't my
Adbolck))
You would think the property industry would have a polite term for
"Ransom Strip". Then again, maybe you wouldn't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransom_strip

So I looked at this, imagining what it would be like buying lots of cheap
offcuts, in the hope they will come in handy one day, only real estate, not DIY.
Or making possibly tax-deductible trips to London to inspect my many properties,
or...
First off: "We have been advised by the Seller that some of the roads and
pathways have been adopted by the Local Authorities and/or Highways."
And while I'd still spend £10 sight unseen, the auctioneers have a minimum
charge of £750...
Thomas Prufer

If some of those parcels are regularly crossed by the public then one
tripping and claiming for injury compensation if the surface was poor could
cost a bit, you could insure yourself but that is more money to spend.

GH

[alan_m]

Post by Thomas Prufer
So I looked at this, imagining what it would be like buying lots of cheap
offcuts, in the hope they will come in handy one day, only real estate, not DIY.
Or making possibly tax-deductible trips to London to inspect my many properties,
or...
First off: "We have been advised by the Seller that some of the roads and
pathways have been adopted by the Local Authorities and/or Highways."
And while I'd still spend £10 sight unseen, the auctioneers have a minimum
charge of £750...

Being next to a pedestrian path and on the corner of the road the
council could force the owner to maintain it, or alternatively maintain
it themselves and send the owner a bill for the service.

[Thomas Prufer]

Post by alan_m

Post by Thomas Prufer
So I looked at this, imagining what it would be like buying lots of cheap
offcuts, in the hope they will come in handy one day, only real estate, not DIY.
Or making possibly tax-deductible trips to London to inspect my many properties,
or...
First off: "We have been advised by the Seller that some of the roads and
pathways have been adopted by the Local Authorities and/or Highways."
And while I'd still spend £10 sight unseen, the auctioneers have a minimum
charge of £750...

Being next to a pedestrian path and on the corner of the road the
council could force the owner to maintain it, or alternatively maintain
it themselves and send the owner a bill for the service.

Ouch.

So, to hold anyone ransom, it won't work to just stroll in with a tenner. It
needs a limited liability company on the Maldives buying the strip, after
researching its usefulness, and then carefully monitoring if and when it is
remunerative to pounce. Specialist work, not DIY, I guess...

Thomas Prufer