My parents own a small cottage. The cottage is about 150 years old, has always been in my mothers family and was passed down through the generations to family members. There was an issue with deeds, as in there were none, up until recently. We have had this issue resolved and the property is now fully registered in my mothers name with PRA. The issue now is my mother wishes to sell. About 40/50 odd years ago the house was developing damp issues as a result of a neighbouring garden straight up against it. The solution at the time was to build a pathway around that side of my mothers house to prevent the damp. The neighbouring property may well have been a local authority house at the time as my mother remembers the Council having to give permission for this path to be built. Oddly my mother has also had to pay the neighbour about a fiver a year as a rent for this strip which I don't really understand. Either way the neighbours property is now privately owned. The issue now is that my mother wishes to sell the old family home but we are wondering if this neighbour could scupper these plans. Efforts in the past to pay a lump sum to the neighbour to take full ownership of this strip have been unsuccessful and they never forget to collect the annual fiver. We're not aware of any documentation showing this agreement and it is possible that the maps with PRA show the strip in both parties ownership. Can anyone advise here? Many thanks.