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Landgate maintains the official register of land ownership and survey information for the Western Australian State Government. This means that it is a public register and all land information contained in it is available to everyone.

If you order a copy of a Survey Plan online you can search using the street address of the property.

If you don't know the full address, you can start by entering just the street name.

Landgate only maintains the records for WA. For land information from other states, please refer to these official government sites:

• Northern Territory
• Queensland
• New South Wales
• Victoria
• South Australia
• Tasmania

An Easement gives a person or a company "rights of use or engagement" over land owned by another.

A Right of Way is a strip of land available either for use by the general public, or a restricted section of the community, and may be created by subdivision, specific transfer, or continued use over a period of years.

Two types of schemes are permitted under the Strata Titles Act 1985, strata schemes and survey-strata schemes.

Common property is property which is jointly owned by all of the owners in the strata scheme and is not contained within any individual lot.

Many strata owners believe that there is no common property in their scheme, and that they own the whole of "their strata unit" (i.e. the building in which they live) and the surrounding garden and carport area. However, in many cases this is not correct.

Due to changes to the Strata Titles Act, and different ways in which Strata Plans have been prepared, a number of individual ownership/ common property scenarios exist.

In general terms, common property on Strata Plans is any land not comprised within a lot shown in the plan, and land leased to increase the area of common property.

Common property in a Survey-Strata Plan is noted with the letters “CP”.

To understand what you own, it is essential that you obtain and examine a current copy of your Strata Plan and seek advice on its interpretation.

The Strata Titles Act (STA) defines unit entitlement as establishing the following:

1. The voting rights of a proprietor
2. The undivided share of each proprietor in the common property
3. The proportion payable by each proprietor of contributions levied under section 36.

Strata Plans show the relative proportion of each owner's share in the scheme. This is called unit entitlement and is set by a Licensed Valuer. In a strata scheme, the unit entitlement of strata lots is calculated to take into account the capital value of buildings on strata lots as well as the land (whether it is common property or individually owned).

The unit entitlement of survey-strata lots is calculated on the unimproved site value of the lots and ignores the value of any buildings on the lots.

Property of interest will only be included on either a Survey Plan or a Strata Plan, not both. A survey plan provides lot dimensions (including areas and angles) for all lots within a subdivision. Whereas a strata plan contains a detailed pictorial description of lots within a strata complex.

Survey Plans do not provide building outlines or dimensions, contact your Local Government Authority for more information. Survey Plans do provide lot dimensions (including areas and angles) for all lots within a subdivision. The lot dimensions may be used to help determine the area available for various building projects.

Survey Plans have evolved over time and there are variations in the plans. The more recent plans provide more detail.

Strata Plan have evolved over time and there are variations in the plans. The more recent plans are more detailed.