When you receive a PDF of an electronic official title plan, you often find that the plan size is a little smaller (or sometimes a little bigger) than the A4 cover sheet with the plan. There is, of course, a warning on the A4 cover sheet that says ‘this official copy was delivered electronically and when printed will not be to scale’. Accordingly, if you want to rely on the scale of an LR title plan then the best practice is to obtain a paper official copy from the LR (and so avoid any risk of sizing distortions that can arise through using a PDF).

However, it is worth noting that you can adjust your PDF software settings to print the electronic plan without altering the size (Print; Page Scaling; select ‘none’).

As a general point, remember that no title plan (whether paper or PDF) shows the exact line of a boundary – it merely shows the ‘general position’ (the point being that you cannot establish the precise position of the boundary of a property by scaling from the title plan).