Proceedings of the 24th Association of Public Authority Surveyors Conference (APAS2019) Pokolbin, New South Wales, Australia, 1-3 April 2019 Cadastral Integrity Loss from Riparian Boundaries Geoff Songberg Crown Lands (Retired)
[email protected] ABSTRACT The loss of cadastral integrity is not something that would be expected in today’s systems of record keeping and enforced regulations that surveyors must adhere to in order to contribute to the cadastre. But there are some areas of the cadastre that are not reliable, and indeed wrong, despite all efforts to ensure that the records are correct. One area where the integrity of the cadastre can degrade is around riparian boundaries. By virtue of their ambulatory nature and the ways in which our cadastral system deals with that ambulatory nature, the end result of not dealing correctly with riparian boundaries can create issue with the integrity of the cadastre. Combine the impacts of ambulatory boundaries with the effects of poor and inappropriate management practices in the record keeping of the cadastre, then the integrity of the cadastre can be severely compromised. This paper shows that ignorance, or negation, of the rules pertaining to riparian boundaries can have a destabilising effect on the integrity of the cadastre. KEYWORDS: Cadastral integrity loss, riparian boundaries. 1 INTRODUCTION Everyone has a stake in the cadastre, from individual property owners, Government and its agencies to information seekers data mining the wealth of attached attributes so they can make critical decisions on investment, infrastructure and development. It is not an unreasonable hypothesis that all these people would expect the cadastre to be of a reasonably high quality and that it is maintained in such a condition.