{"id":48822,"date":"2017-03-20T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/utopian-thinking-to-take-back-control-of-england-we-must-find-out-who-owns-it-guy-shrubsole\/"},"modified":"2017-03-20T15:09:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T08:09:42","slug":"utopian-thinking-to-take-back-control-of-england-we-must-find-out-who-owns-it-guy-shrubsole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/utopian-thinking-to-take-back-control-of-england-we-must-find-out-who-owns-it-guy-shrubsole\/","title":{"rendered":"Utopian thinking: to \u2018take back control\u2019 of England, we must find out who owns it | Guy Shrubsole"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSecrecy surrounds much of the country\u2019s land ownership. It\u2019s time for the Land Registry database to be completed and opened up to all\u201cThe ownership of land,\u201d wrote the 19th-century radical economist Henry George, \u201cis the great fundamental fact which ultimately determines the social, the political and \u2026 the moral condition of a people.\u201d Related: The Land Registry is the guardian of our most basic national resource | Peter Hetherington Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…Utopian thinking: to \u2018take back control\u2019 of England, we must find out who owns it | Guy Shrubsole<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Secrecy surrounds much of the country\u2019s land ownership. 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