Burdens

The Guidance Note “Land Measurement for Planning and Development Purposes,” Global 1st edition, published by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in May 2021, defines burdens as “legal obligations affecting land or buildings that typically restrict certain activities, impose use and/or building restrictions, or allocate responsibility for repair and maintenance.”

Similarly, in the publication “Common Repair, Common Sense: A Short Guide to the Management of Tenements in Scotland,” Second Edition, released by Consumer Focus Scotland in September 2009, burdens or real burdens are described as “an obligation on the occupier of land (or buildings) to do something or refrain from doing something on that land. The obligation ‘runs with the land,’ which means it will continue even when the land (or building) is sold.”