Cadastral & land surveys

Overview

Cadastral surveying determines and records the legal boundaries of a parcel of land the lines that title deeds, transfers, subdivisions and land disputes all depend on. In Kenya, this work is carried out in accordance with the Survey Act and registered against the national cadastre, so the result has to hold up not just on the ground but in the Land Registry. The same discipline covers boundary re-establishment: beacons get buried, ploughed out, built over or simply lost over the years, and recovering the true legal position of a parcel's corners from the original survey record not from fences, hedges or "where everyone agreed it was" is the same technical exercise as establishing a boundary for the first time.

Our services include

• Cadastral surveys
• General boundary surveys
• Re-establishment surveys
• Sectional property surveys
• Subdivision surveys
• Conveyancing support
• Land due diligence

Typical approach

A cadastral survey starts with a search of existing survey records beacons, deed plans, registry index maps for the parcel and its neighbours. Our licensed surveyors then locate or re-establish the physical boundary beacons using GNSS RTK positioning cross-checked against the statutory record, resolve any discrepancy against adjoining parcels, and produce a survey plan suitable for registration. Where a beacon genuinely cannot be recovered, we re-establish it by calculation from surviving, undisputed neighbouring beacons, following the same methods a Land Registry surveyor would use to adjudicate the parcel.

What a client receives

A registrable survey plan and beacon certificate, physically reinstated and marked beacons where re-establishment is involved, a written report noting any boundary discrepancies found and how they were resolved, and where the work supports a transaction or a dispute coordination with your advocate and the Land Registry, or a report suitable for use in mediation or before the Land Registrar.