Amalgamating titles

Hi, I am doing a voluntary first registration of our farmstead which consists of about 20 acres and buildings. The land was originally bought in the 60's as two bare fields and the farmyard was created later with the remaining land turned into one big field around it. It would seem logical to register the whole area as one title but the original deeds are for two separate parcels. Can it be amagalamated and how do I go about it? Thank you.

Hi Graham - the application relies on the applicant defining what it is they are applying to register for the first time. So if you apply for all of the land to be registered under a single application, and provide the deeds/documents sufficient to confirm ownership, then you'll end up with a single title for all the land.
We don't split ownership based on the deeds. The title is based on what's being applied for

Thank you

Hi Adam, I also have a question about amalgamating titles.
I am in the process of purchasing an older property where the previous owner has purchased extra land and bits of the garden were swapped (it looks like before there was a hodgepodge of tetris shapes in neighbouring gardens and it was done to make sense of them and have actual boundaries). But they were never made into one title so there are 4 different ones, one of which is going through the process of being registered. 
Even though it is one, normal (mid) sized garden, it has 4 different titles and it’s not clear that they all definitely line up with the physical (and accepted/undisputed) boundary and wall/fence. 

If these were amalgamated would it help as it would make the boundaries clearer?
 

Hi Hannah - not too sure it would make the boundaries any clearer as they are still going to to be mapped according to what's already registered and based on the current OS details also. 
Here's our generic response to an enquiry re whether amalgamation can be applied for - a request based on 'want to make the boundaries clearer' would most likely not be a good enough reason as per my explanation 
 

An amalgamation is the joining of two or more parcels of registered or unregistered estates affecting different extents of land under a single registered title.

We do not amalgamate titles unless some positive advantage accrues to a number of prospective purchasers (such as an amalgamation of areas of land comprising a housing development), or the request does not add unnecessarily to our workload.

Amalgamation can only happen where: 

• the estates are of the same kind [for example, freehold title] 
• the estates are owned by the same proprietor[s] and in the same capacity [for example, if an owner holds one title as joint proprietor and another as sole proprietor, amalgamation of the two cannot take place]
• the impact upon any encumbrances on individual titles, such as mortgages, have been accounted for  

If you wish to apply for amalgamation you will need to complete and submit:

• Form AP1
• a covering letter outlining the reasons for the request along with any supporting evidence [If you are being refused insurance, for example, then you should include a copy of that refusal with the application]
• a sufficient description or plan of the land being amalgamated 
• a fee of £40.00 [cheques/postal orders to be made payable to HM Land Registry]

Thank you Adam!