Walterland field notes on cadastral surveys, land verification, GIS, drone mapping and practical land administration in Kenya.
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It identifies the surveyed parcel but does not normally show every building, fence or current site feature.
The resulting plan gives the design team a measured picture of the site rather than requiring them to work from estimates or a hand-drawn sketch.
You want to know where your land ends before the design and construction work begins.
Before relying on a brochure or door number, use the sectional plan to confirm the apartment, its boundaries, its unit factor and the spaces included in the sale.
Sectional titles connect the completed building, the survey plan and the land register. Here is what unit owners, buyers and developers need to understand.
Owning and using two neighbouring plots as one property does not combine them in the land records. Here is how the survey, mutation and registration process works.
A one-third share in co-owned land is not a physical third of the plot. Here is how an agreed partition turns undivided interests into surveyed and registered parcels.
A title says 0.40 hectares, but a contractor thinks the plot looks smaller. Before assuming land is missing, a surveyor checks the recorded parcel and its boundaries.
One corner mark has disappeared just as you are ready to fence. Here is how survey records, surviving marks and field measurements help a surveyor investigate what happened.
A practical buyer’s guide to turning a proposed portion of a parent parcel into a separately registered plot, with access, approvals and survey records properly addressed.
A surveyor connects the documents, the ground and the official record. Here is what that means when you are buying a plot, splitting land, building, or arguing with a neighbour about a fence.
A practical guide to how Ardhisasa changed mutation forms, cadastral submissions, owner confirmations and preparation for land survey work in Kenya.