Property News · March 20, 2017

Utopian thinking: to ‘take back control’ of England, we must find out who owns it | Guy Shrubsole


Secrecy surrounds much of the country’s land ownership. It’s time for the Land Registry database to be completed and opened up to all“The ownership of land,” wrote the 19th-century radical economist Henry George, “is the great fundamental fact which ultimately determines the social, the political and … the moral condition of a people.” Related: The Land Registry is the guardian of our most basic national resource | Peter Hetherington Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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