Reading the property record

This episode is in preparation. These show notes are published in draft so that the scope of the episode, and the limits on it, are on the record before it is recorded. Chapter marks and the audio itself follow — [Awaiting client evidence].

Four references sit under this entire case: Deposited Plan DP 601937, Records of Title RT 1174253 and RT 1174254, and Covenant Instrument 13089567.5. They are the most checkable facts on this platform, because anyone can obtain them, and they are also the most frequently over-read.

This is a document walkthrough, not an argument. By the end of it a listener should be able to retrieve each document, read it in the right order, and — most importantly — say out loud what it does not establish.

This episode examines documents, not motives. Where the record is silent, we say so.

Chapters

• Why a public land register exists, and what "public" means in practice
• Start with the plan: what a deposited plan defines, and why geometry comes first
• Records of title: estate, registered proprietor, and the schedule of interests
• Why two titles and not one, and the questions that follow from that alone
• Registered interests: what an instrument number is promising you
• Covenants: a promise that runs with the land and binds the next owner
• The five things a title does not show — intent, motive, price, development right, and anything after the date of search
• How to check us, and what to send if we have got it wrong

What this episode does not claim

• It does not quote or paraphrase the contents of any of the four documents. We hold references, not published texts — [Source to be added].
• It does not state the terms of Covenant Instrument 13089567.5, who holds the benefit of it, or whether the proposal is consistent with it.
• It does not name a registered proprietor as at any date, or state any price, value or transaction.
• It draws no inference whatsoever about the intention, knowledge or conduct of any registered proprietor. Ownership is not a plan.
• It treats a record of title as a snapshot current only as at the date of search, and says so.

Read alongside

Reading a record of title: RT 1174253 and RT 1174254 · Covenant Instrument 13089567.5 · Property & Development Timeline · The Evidence

Ridgeburn Limited, Morven Ferry Limited and any person with a registered interest may respond in full under our standing right of response.

Evidence statement

Classification: Primary Document

Status: Register references described. No document text has been obtained or published by us, and nothing is asserted about the contents of any of them.

Author: Ridgeburn Press

Last reviewed: 16 September 2026

Sources

1. Deposited Plan DP 601937, public land register — [Source to be added]
2. Records of Title RT 1174253 and RT 1174254, public land register — [Source to be added]
3. Covenant Instrument 13089567.5, public land register — [Source to be added]

Assumptions

• Descriptions of what a deposited plan, a record of title and a covenant contain are descriptions of the class of document, not of these four.
• Current copies as at a date of search have not been supplied to us — [Awaiting client evidence]

What is not established

• The current registered proprietor of either title.
• The full schedule of interests registered against either title.
• The terms of Covenant Instrument 13089567.5 and who holds its benefit.
• Any intention, plan or motive of any registered proprietor.

Right of response

Ridgeburn Limited, Queenstown Lakes District Council and any person named here may respond in full. How to respond.