Tipperary Council set to swap land with metal recycling firm to correct mapping error
Tipperary County Council is set to swap parcels of land with a Nenagh metal recycling company after an historic mapping error left the registered boundaries at odds with who actually owns and occupies the land.
The plans to dispose of a parcel of land in the Lisbunny Business Park in Nenagh are due to be voted on at the Tipperary County Council meeting next week.
Documents show the council is proposing to exchange a 0.175-acre plot for a larger 0.337-acre parcel currently registered to Allied Metal Recycling (Ireland) Ltd.
No money will change hands as part of the proposed exchange, with both parties agreeing to cover their own legal and professional costs.
According to council documents, an issue with the ownership of both plots of land was identified.
“Following a review of the council’s landholdings at Lisbunny Business Park, Nenagh, an issue was identified whereby the boundaries on the ground do not correspond with the property boundaries registered in the Land Registry,” the document said.
The council added that one of the sections of land is registered as the property of Tipperary County Council, despite being used by Allied Metal Recycling, while the other plot is registered as belonging to Allied Metal Recycling, but is actually the property of the county council.
“Both parties agree that the Land Registry maps do not accurately reflect the occupation and ownership boundaries on the ground and that this discrepancy most likely arises from a historic mapping error,” council files say.
To address the error, the council is proposing to swap the parcel of land that belongs to them but that is being used by the metal recycling company, in exchange for the land that is in the ownership of Allied Metal Recycling Ltd.
“In order to regularise ownership and align the registered boundaries with the established occupation of the respective parties, it is proposed that the transfers be completed by way of a land exchange between the parties, for the purpose of correcting the mapping anomaly,” documents say.
“Each party shall be responsible for its own legal and professional costs associated with the transaction, with no monies being transferred between the parties,” they added.
The proposal is due go before councillors for a vote at the plenary meeting of Tipperary County Council on Monday, September 14.