<p class="ai-optimize-6">In <em>White v Alder, </em>the parties owned adjoining residential properties in Chelmsford, Essex known as Willow Cottage and the Old Stores. In October 2005, the predecessors in title to both homes orally agreed that the boundary features on the line of the actual boundary belonged to the Old Stores. The agreement was subsequently written into an informal agreement.</p>
<p class="ai-optimize-7">A matter of days apart from each other in November 2005, White purchased Willow Cottage and the Alders purchased the Old Stores. In 2016, White demolished part of the boundary wall and built an extension to Willow Cottage, without knowledge of a boundary agreement which confirmed the boundary features belonged to the Old Stores.</p>
<p class="ai-optimize-8">The Alders issued trespass proceedings stating that the wall of the extension, its foundations and the scaffolding used in construction trespassed across the boundary. Mr White’s extension apparently trespassed just an inch or so into the Alders’ land.</p>
<p class="ai-optimize-9">The County Court held that the boundary agreement was binding on White and the Alders.</p>