Cadastral plan in Cyprus
The cadastral plan is a map sheet of the Department of Lands and Surveys (DLS) that shows plots of land with their plot numbers and boundary lines. Anyone can get a copy.
The DLS, often called the Land Registry, prepares the cadastral plans. It updates them together with the land register, where every registration and transfer of property is entered and from which title deeds are issued.
Getting a copy of the cadastral plan
Anyone can order a copy of the official cadastral plan of any property from the DLS. Apply online through the DLS e-Services, which needs a CY Login account, or email form N.295, signed, to the District Lands Office of your choice, with a postal address and a contact phone number.
According to the DLS Citizen's Charter, the form gives the property details as written on the title deed, such as the sheet and plan number, plot number, block if any, and the municipality, village or quarter.
The official copy is on paper only. It costs €4 for each copy of the whole plan and €2 for each part of the plan copied. The DLS page Copy of official cadastral plan has the form and the email addresses. Applications to the EAC, photovoltaic installations included, and to the District Local Government Organisations need no copy of the plan or of the title deed.
Seeing the cadastral map online
The DLS shows the cadastral map of Cyprus in its Greek-language online map viewer: open "Θεματικοί Χάρτες" and choose "Κτηματικός / Χωρομετρικός Χάρτης" (cadastral and survey map). The viewer is not an official copy. For an official copy of a plan, apply as above.
Legislation
Property registration in Cyprus runs under the Immovable Property (Tenure, Registration and Valuation) Law, Cap. 224. The DLS describes its procedures, copies of cadastral plans included, in its Citizen's Charter (2011 edition, PDF, 2.5 MB, in English). Current routes and fees are on the DLS application page linked in the section above.
Importance
The cadastral plan shows where a plot lies and how its boundary lines run against the plots around it.
In its Citizen's Charter (2011 edition) the DLS lists a cadastral plan among the documents for several applications, including:
- an agreed readjustment of the common boundary of two or more properties, with the proposed boundaries on the plan and the written consent of the registered owners
- partition agreed by all co-owners of a property held in undivided shares, with the plan of the division signed by all of them
- demarcation of a property whose title rests on a DLS plan drawn to scale
- division of agricultural land, with the official cadastral plan