The brief
The owner planned to build a fence, but the boundary markers could no longer be found on site, and the neighbour had a different understanding of where the boundary ran. The previous survey had been carried out more than twenty years earlier using less precise methods.
The situation was complicated by a hedge the neighbour had already planted along the disputed line, while the historical descriptions referred to landmarks that had long since disappeared. Without a survey, any fence risked being built on someone else’s land.
Our approach
We requested archive materials from the State Land Service and compared them against the situation on the ground. We invited the adjoining owners to a boundary inspection in the manner prescribed by law, reviewed the findings together, and secured the boundary points with new markers.
The archive data was recorded in the old coordinate system, so we first converted it to LKS-92 TM and only then compared it against the points found on site. At the meeting we showed both parties how the historical measurements lined up with the new ones, which removed most of the disagreement.
The outcome
The boundary was restored without litigation, both parties signed the boundary inspection report, and the owner was able to start building the fence confident of its position.
The boundary points were registered in the cadastre, so in future they can be restored from coordinates rather than from memory. The whole process, from enquiry to signed report, took just under two months.
