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There’s a move at the Land Registry to make land data more open.. but there’s still a way to go.

Currently vital data for land justice is behind a huge paywall (>£20k per year).

There should be a license that allows civic access to this data.

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🌱 Two NEW features just dropped in Land Explorer 👇

1. Unregistered land: You can now see all unregistered land in your area.

2. Colour-coding: The colour-coding in each ownership level has been improved, so it’s way easier to tell them apart.

Check the updates our here: landexplorer.coop

100s of groups use Land Explorer to uncover who owns the land around them & improve their communities.

Community groups & campaigners should not be priced out of this data.

Here are our recommendations to the Land Registry 👇

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"Make ownership of large landholdings public"

Great report from the @digitalcommons.bsky.social with key recommendation that HM Land Registry should make the ownership of landholdings above a certain area threshold publicly available:

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Last week the Digital Commons team (minus the wonderful Lynne) met in Birmingham for our away day 🌱

It gave us a chance to step back and plan what’s next for our tools and partnerships and to reconnect on what drives our work. 👇

Who owns land is one of the most opaque & important questions in the UK today.

Communities cannot tackle the housing crises, respond to environmental changes, or protect local green spaces w/o this info.

That’s why we built a tool that makes it simple to see who owns what.

👉 landexplorer.coop

Hello! We’re Digital Commons Co-op. We build tech for social change.

We’ve built:

🌱 Land Explorer: a tool for finding & evaluating land for community projects landexplorer.coop

📍 Mykomaps: a platform for connecting & collaborating with co-ops worldwide digitalcommons.coop/mykomaps/

What happens when you make Land Ownership data available, for free, to community action groups?

That's what Land Explorer does, and here's how the first 18 months has gone:

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