Download Rural Land Register
Posted by Phil Clark on 01/03/2010 6 comments
As part of the ongoing modernisation of Common Agricultural Policy scheme administration, the Rural Payments Agency has built a Rural Land Register which holds digital maps of all registered land parcels. Ability to download these maps would be useful
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It should all be transparent
Are farming subsidies still paid on land where farmers have erected wind turbines and collect huge payments effectively from all other members of the public? Being able to see these maps would at least let us all have knowledge of where these landowners are.
This would be
This would be great.
Anonymising the data would take care of any privacy concerns.
Feels right... However...
It feels like it makes sense - that these data should be in the public domain... (Currently, I understand that digital land registry data is available for rather expensive fees.) HOWEVER... Can anyone think of any privacy concerns?
What if someone was going through a messy divorce, and in the middle of it all, they inherited a parcel of land? What if the other party's lawyer catches wind of it? Would that be fair?
I entirely agree. This should
I entirely agree.
This should be public information
Planning applications
Making this data freely available could reduce the need to advertise planning applications. In Scotland, this regularly happens as part of Neighbour Notification where the land ownership (particularly in rural areas) is unknown. The cost of advertising is then borne by the applicant and is affecting a lot of small developments (in some cases the cost of advertising can be as much as the planning application fee). Freeing up this data would therefore indirectly help the building trade.