openpolitics/manifesto — pull request #244 by digitalWestie (2014-10-16 12:32:27+00:00)
Title: An open registery of land ownership

www.yourbritain.org.uk/uploads/editor/files/The_Lyons_Housing_Review_2.pdf - "The Land Registry records the ownership of land and property and has registered 82% of the land in England and Wales with more than 23.5 million titles. However, as evidence to the review highlighted, there is limited public access to this information and no requirement to register land options."

"Greater transparency about ownership, options and transactions would deliver a number of important
benefits that would result in better operation of the land market. "

Let's open this up. Hopefully this will prevent land grabs of common land, and discourage supermarkets buying bits of land just to prevent competition.