Our solicitors want big bucks for this question so I thought i'd see whether anyone on here had come across the same issue 
We own a concrete farm track that runs through to a main road. By the road, the land on both sides of the track was owned by a neighbour - lets call it title 'A'. He uses the track 'at all time and for all purposes' to access his house which is set a little way back from the road and pays 10% from time to time of reasonable maintenance costs. Last year he obtained permission to convert an old shed to a dwelling. This was on the opposite side of the track but still on 'title A'. Now (via estate agents) he's offering to sell or rent the plot / converted building and it has a new title number - say 'title B'.
The question is does he, or someone who rents or purchases the land or barn conversion, because of 'title B', now have to contribute their own 10% to maintain the road which they too will use or do they each now contribute 5%?
The new title mentions the maintaining obligation when quoting the 'at all times and for all purposes' right of way but despite the usage possibly doubling if an additional family move in, he says the contribution for the total land was only ever 10% and now they have had an 'agreement' drawn for the proposed tenant or purchaser that they will each contribute 5% of the obligation.
Perhaps I do need to use a solicitor but it's a few zeros for something that is minimal return but I'd like to understand the procedure for splitting titles as a general rule and in case we ever wanted to do something similar.
HK
We own a concrete farm track that runs through to a main road. By the road, the land on both sides of the track was owned by a neighbour - lets call it title 'A'. He uses the track 'at all time and for all purposes' to access his house which is set a little way back from the road and pays 10% from time to time of reasonable maintenance costs. Last year he obtained permission to convert an old shed to a dwelling. This was on the opposite side of the track but still on 'title A'. Now (via estate agents) he's offering to sell or rent the plot / converted building and it has a new title number - say 'title B'.
The question is does he, or someone who rents or purchases the land or barn conversion, because of 'title B', now have to contribute their own 10% to maintain the road which they too will use or do they each now contribute 5%?
The new title mentions the maintaining obligation when quoting the 'at all times and for all purposes' right of way but despite the usage possibly doubling if an additional family move in, he says the contribution for the total land was only ever 10% and now they have had an 'agreement' drawn for the proposed tenant or purchaser that they will each contribute 5% of the obligation.
Perhaps I do need to use a solicitor but it's a few zeros for something that is minimal return but I'd like to understand the procedure for splitting titles as a general rule and in case we ever wanted to do something similar.
HK
