Building confidence and expertise in local government for successful digital transformation

In the Local Digital Declaration, we outline our commitment to ‘creating the conditions for genuine ...

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What we learned from the Local Digital Roadshow 2022

The Local Digital team holding a workshop with attendees during the Yorkshire Roadshow. This year ha...

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Register of Overseas Entities: How it affects land transactions

The Economic Crime (Transparency & Enforcement) Act 2022 requires overseas entities that own or acqu...

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How Skyroom is helping landowners deliver housing in London

A Skyroom development in Southwark, London. Artistic impression. Skyroom was a participant in the Ge...

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Programme to help PropTech and geospatial start-ups wins award

I have been lucky enough to work on the Geovation Accelerator Programme since 2017 as part of HM Lan...

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Digital applications – 6 months to go

Six months ago, we told customers we had a year to switch to digital applications. Now at the midway...

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Spring 2022 portal changes: View Applications

View My Applications was launched within our customer portal in August 2020. This feature enables ou...

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Pressing on with Local Land Charges delivery

Ant Clausen/Shutterstock.com Four years ago, the Local Land Charges Rules came into force providing ...

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Progress on the Register of Overseas Entities

The new Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill received royal assent on 15 March and bec...

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What’s in a name?

iChzigo/Shutterstock.com Every year, we send more than 200,000 requests for information (requisition...

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Reflections on my time as the Head of Local Digital

May-N presenting at an event for local government This week brings to a close my two and a half year...

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Electronic signatures: our new practice guide and the future

Marko Aliaksandr/Shutterstock.com In August last year I wrote about the role of electronic signature...

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Exciting next steps for Local Digital and Cyber

The Local Digital and Cyber teams are going to be making some exciting changes over the next few mon...

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What do we do with customer feedback?

IhorZigor/Shutterstock.com Our customers’ voices are heard clearly across HM Land Registry. They are...

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We’re accelerating our move towards digital applications 

Last year we announced that, from November 2022, most AP1 applications to change the register via ou...

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Why Your Business Should Hire Unicorns

What are they? Where do you find them? How do you keep them?

Whatever business you are in hiring unicorn employees could be the best thing you eve...

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Private sector collaboration helps Local Land Charges Programme delivery

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Modernising planning software in collaboration with councils and their suppliers

Our digital planning software work is moving into a new phase of collaboration and delivery with Loc...

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View My Applications will soon include your colleagues’ work

insta_photos/Shutterstock.com From Monday 31 January, some of our land registration fees will increa...

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30 Ways To Promote Your Estate Agency

Competition can be fierce for agents (and businesses generally) so the more you can do to ...

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HM Land Registry fees are changing

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Celebrating Geovation’s start-up successes – and seeking the next cohort

From Monday 31 January, some of our land registration fees will increase. See Fees review 2021 to 20...

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Introducing a new service to “Submit social housing lettings and sales data (CORE)”

We previously blogged about how and why DLUHC is looking at reducing the burden of data submission t...

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Why we’re making data returns less burdensome for Local Government

A big part of the work of organisations that deliver local services is submitting data about their a...

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5 top tips to keep your property safe

Ivan Kruk/Shutterstock.com Combating fraud is a key priority for us at HM Land Registry. Over the pa...

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Digital applications will be game-changing – for you and us

The pandemic has changed the way we work over the past 20 months, especially in the use of technolog...

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EXCLUSIVE - Everything Homebuyers Need To Know About Finding, Buying and Selling Property.

Complete video guide for homebuyers and sellers

Most people move on average every 15 - 20 years so its no surprise that whe...

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Protect your land and property from fraud

Don't let a stranger steal your home

There has been a lot in the news lately about property being stolen and sold on without th...

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How our training offer is supporting local government with day-to-day working

It’s been seven months since we launched an online library of training courses to support our local ...

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Digital applications – making the future a reality 

Crane Hall and the Chantry near Ipswich was the first title registered in 1863 by its owner the MP S...

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